MindHead

I suppose you can ask the same question once they release a better build in June. If then, there still Apps that lack, we can revisit this topic.

Your complaints are valid and meaningful to you. With that said, I am sorry you feel that way. No this is not like the concept from the Verge forums, and will probably never be, for one simple reason, because that was a concept. It has been statistically proven that the Ribbon UI has fostered great user knowledge of available functions of Windows. While it can tend to look cluttered, it served a function. I believe that the removal of Aero also serves a function. Consolidation of resources. Why tweak Aero to “not crash so often” or use less RAM when you can do away with a simple aesthetic (crashing explorer) and gain whatever battery percentage it correlates with?

I feel that Windows 8 is a long overdue step in function over form. Does this method have it’s shortcomings? Yes. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see if the function proves better than the form they are giving up.

Perhaps I read your post incorrectly, but the same OEM’s creating Android tablets will be making Windows 8 tablets correct? To say Microsoft needs more of its partners to ship competent tablets at competitive prices, seems to imply they aren’t doing that now with Android. To say Microsoft needs to innovate on par with what is introduced in Android/Jellybean/Keylime pie and iOS 6 would imply those innovations (while currently theoretical) are better than what Windows 8 has already presented.

Can I ask how OEM’s will make tablets for Android that are that much more appealing than Windows 8 with the same resources and hardware? Where will be the tablet hybrids, or ultrabooks running Android that OEM’s have already committed to making for Windows 8 along with tablets?

Can I ask how the sales of ICS tablets have been compared to Honeycomb? Has ICS gone on to create a “positive response to the new UX paradigm” of Android now?

Lastly, what innovations have Jellybean/Keylime Pie or iOS6 shown that will be on par with a Windows 8 tablet?

It would seem Microsoft doesn’t need to accomplish ALL of the things you listed to already be on par with the Android tablet offering nor the iOS of the iPad.

My apologies. You are correct and any ARM based processors will have the same experience that WindowsRT provides the tablet form factor….limited desktop with an emphasis on Metro.

Perhaps you should do the same. Windows 8 on ARM processors is called WinRT and is not the same Windows 8 that will be for PC, x86 tablets, or laptops. WindowsRT is exactly and strictly for tablets and will not be shipped to enterprise nor consumers looking for Windows 8 x86 processors. Perhaps you may need to re-read the Building Windows site.

While I appreciate what Steve Jobs and Apple have done for consumer products, I’m not sure Elop has to be Jobs-like to help Nokia. IBM did it without Jobs and Nokia may be able to do the same. It would seem Nokia miscalculated on the feature phone market (with or without Elop, I’m not too sure) But the issue was they didn’t seem to offer a high end product to offset the margin loss for their feature phone manufacturing. Samsung apparently got it right. Produce tons of smartphones (at near cost for resources) for the feature phone crowd and let your profit margins from your 20 million SG2 and 10 million SG Notes offset your profit-loss margins.

Hopefully Windows Phone Tango and Apollo will help address these areas for Nokia. But who knows.

Also, it seems Kodak was doomed by smartphones/feature phones adopting better lens technology. No need for people to carry two pieces of hardware when one can do the job. Kodak seemed to have no real back up plan in place.

Just my opinion.