Tim Anderson: Microsoft, Windows 8, and the Innovator’s Dilemma
by Volker Weber
Sinofsky’s goal is to unify the smartphone and the tablet, making a new mobile OS that users will enjoy while also maintaining the legacy desktop and slotting in to enterprise management infrastructure. I admire his tenacity in the face of intense protest, and I am beginning to understand that foresight rather than stupidity underlies his efforts.
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I saw pics showing off the new form factors presented at Computex - I am more optimistic about the new Win8 thing now. From afar there was some quite gorgeous hardware shown.
My thoughts as well. Windows machines may get the sexy back, that they lost years ago.
The Win8 tablets look spectacular (says an owner of all 3 iPads). Microsoft was in the office recently pitching them and it is an impressive vision. I still see no reason to use Metro on my desktop, though, so I hope we skip it the way we skipped Vista. On the other hand, maybe we'll just stop buying desktops entirely...