On 2015-11-27 8:27 PM, BOB KLAHN -> ALAN ZISMAN wrote:
BK> ...
AZ>> Win 8 was the version that changed everything.... Win 10 is
AZ>> an attempt by Microsoft to
AZ>> recognize that Win 8 changed to many things too fast for a
AZ>> user base that will take many years to transition to
AZ>> touch-screen systems, while maintaining a sense that the
AZ>> touch-screen user interface is the direction they want to
AZ>> go in the long run.
BK> The direction MicroSoft want's to go, or the users? I suspect
BK> MS. They want to make the decisions and we have to live with it.
BK> In Business that can get very expensive.
'They want to go' in the quoted passage is referring to Microsoft.
It has been the case since the beginning of person computing - Microsoft has
made decisions and users - especially businesses - have dragged their feed
about upgrading.
If you were around in the late 1980s/early 1990s, Microsoft dragged its user
base into the graphical user interface era, at a time when users - business
users especially - had invested time and money into learning specialized
keyboard commands for Lotus 1-2-3 and Wordperfect.
(Remember keyboard number-row overlays with keyboard commands?)
It took at least a decade for that transition. Microsoft has shown it's able to
plan for the long-term.
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