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Microsoft unveils new UI prototype - Windows 8?
Stoic Joker:
So in short, this really is the beginning of the end for computing as we know it.
-Stoic Joker (June 03, 2011, 06:56 AM)
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I many respects, yes.-40hz (June 03, 2011, 09:36 AM)
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Damnit! ...Why can't I just once be cynical and wrong, at the same time?!?
*Sigh* At least there's still hope for the server OS's (i think...).
Where that leaves us geeks and techno-wonks is anybody's guess. -40hz (June 03, 2011, 09:36 AM)
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Marginally justified in being misanthropic?
Thank heavens for Linux.-40hz (June 03, 2011, 09:36 AM)
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It's not a bad exit strategy if need be.
40hz:
*Sigh* At least there's still hope for the server OS's (i think...).
-Stoic Joker (June 03, 2011, 11:50 AM)
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There will be until Microsoft decides to drop Windows Home Server. It really is a little gem. :)
Stoic Joker:
*Sigh* At least there's still hope for the server OS's (i think...).
-Stoic Joker (June 03, 2011, 11:50 AM)
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There will be until Microsoft decides to drop Windows Home Server. It really is a little gem. :)
-40hz (June 03, 2011, 12:35 PM)
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WHS? ...What...Everybody doesn't have a domain controller on their home network?!? My god! ...How do they keep track of the kids?!? (comment loosely relates to other thread - hehe ;))
zridling:
The Win8 UI video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I
There seems to be an industry trend where the end-user is increasingly being seen (not without good reason) as a data "consumer" rather than a data creator.-40hz (June 03, 2011, 09:36 AM)
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Thus the tablet device, which is merely consumptive, not creative -- "Stop typing your opinions and buy more shit, you donkeys!" Win8 seems to devalue the keyboard as well, despite otherwise being a move in the right direction. (Imagine if Microsoft had done Win8 when Vista was released!) Also, there's the whole facebookification of the web, which Doc Searls posted about and I'll link to soon.
There may be a way out of the current partitioning of the web via the Freedom Box:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/nyregion/16about.html
http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/
...that is, if you ever get tired of your every move being tracked by megacorp, inc.
Carol Haynes:
OK when is Apple going to sue Microsoft on look and feel?
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