Some time back I actually got to look at Windows 8 first hand. What intrigues me about this, is it seems to be more a knee-jerk reaction of the rise of the tablet, and less a careful considered re-work of a user interface.
In fact, what I hear on the grape vine, they don’t seem to have any real road map forward. This has scared the likes of Rockwell Automation, who have started baking their SCADA systems into their hardware to remove their dependence on the OS.
All this to chase the tablet and smart phone market.
It makes me wonder what their road map actually is. Perhaps they’ve taken a leaf out of Mental as Anything’s song book? Sure looks that way…
New Windows released last night
You could call it a blight
It’s such a shame, We never thought it was
Gonna be so bad! They wished for something good.They’ve had enough of that
at other times in days gone by.
Changed so much I know…
Mmm just enough, enough to make you cry.If you leave me, can I come too?
We can always stay
But if you leave me, can I come too?
And if you go, can I come too?We let it happen again!
‘Cause that they couldn’t take.
Ooh once was quite enough
It’s easy to forgive, harder to forgetIf you leave me, can I come too?
We can always stay
But if you leave me, can I come too?
And if you go, can I come too?
…
(Original lyrics credit: Chuck Krumel, Jeff Raymond, James Stewart)
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