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How Would You Change Windows 9?

posted by janrinok on Sunday March 02 2014, @06:30AM   
from the the-weekly-borg dept.

CowboyTeal writes:

"Windows 8 is still being disputed as either the product of a genius or a nerdy sadist but that doesn't mean Windows 9 isn't in the works. That said, how would you guys improve Windows if you could change anything about it? Has windows 8 improved or degraded your overall experience of the Windows platform? If you're not a Windows user, what features would you like to see in Windows for possible assimilation?"

• Re:Here's my laundry list for Windows and Microsof (Score: 2, Insightful) by gishzida on Sunday March 02 2014, @09:55AM

  by gishzida (2870) on Sunday March 02 2014, @09:55AM (#9597) Journal

  Microsoft was so good/evil [depending on how you see them] for so long that businesses will have a real problem if they "fall". For an number of years I worked at a financial institution. The company was not large enough to have their own software development group so they were dependent on small specialty software developers who are "locked in" to Microsoft products / technologies. We went through a wave of visualizing a bunch of servers into a vSphere Cluster... but all of the Server client OSes were Windows.
  
  You can dumb down a teller workstation to a what is the modern equivalent of a smart terminal [a touch workstation with an Atom CPU running a virtual desktop on a VM host]... but for the end user the OS still needs to be Windows to support all those specialty apps... because you cannot change an Enterprise over night. Enterprises also hate to have to retrain users. You won't see BYOD for a Bank Teller... or any other critical app [medical , military, law enforcement, etc.]. When and if you do you should be seriously question doing business with that company

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