[AccessD] Ramblings of a nutcase

Hi John:

<rant mode on>
My belief is that the major companies are the entities that are really trying to kill off the PC. 

The new remote Cloud, internet and an OS which is tightly integrated to the web is much easier to monetize and really who wants a user to just install one OS or application on the desktop and sit on it for years and years?...a company could go broke waiting for a customer to finally decide to upgrade. The rental model is much better because if a tenant doesn't keep paying, you just throw them out, turn them off and it wouldn't be long before they come crawling back. Personally, I do not believe a company could be quite as ruthless as that but as the old saying goes, "When you have someone by the short-hairs it is not long before their heart and mind follows". ...and all the citizens would then be chanting Windows 8 is good, Windows 8 is great. ;-) 

Too bad Linux was not wiped out in 1995 or none of the users or developers would have an escape route.
<rant mode off>

IMHO, There is two groups of users out there. The Consumers and the Providers. Considering that providers are only about fifteen percent of the market, mostly are big companies and there is this huge push to get as many OS and application renters as possible...as this is where the money is. The question has to be asked, should the focus be towards providers? Providers like blog writers, developers, systems people and designers, for the most part they can make it on their own and always have so until the consumers have migrated to the new platforms, they will just have to wait. The trouble is that even though the consumer market, is basically stupid and very easy to scare into upgrading, like a good lawyers, in most cases, the Providers are standing in the way and saying, "Don't worry Microsoft will adapt eventually."...or as some wish just disappear altogether.

So we all park at Windows 7 and wait for Microsoft to decide where the company goes next. We have created a nice  symmetry, in that, for the exception of "the true believers", the Providers, that don't count, are holding back the wholesale adoption by the Consumers, by providing luke warm support at best and absolute disdain at worse.

Jim  
    
----- Original Message -----
From: "John W Colby" <jwcolby at gmail.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:34:27 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Ramblings of a nutcase

Jim,

In re-reading your post it occurred to me that my problem with Windows 8 is PRECISELY that, 
Microsoft tried to turn it into an application, where you spend time in WINDOWS arranging things in 
pretty screen slices and watching face book drift past, but WINDOWS and it's little applets are the 
show.  WINDOWS search opens IE and BING and serves up a delectible array of search results (and 
advertisements).

Windows 7 really has no FE per se. It is simply a framework for third party apps to run.  Yea, it 
has Windows Explorer to go find files and move them around but that is just a 1% slice of your day.  
MS wants you to spend 80% of your time in Windows (as an FE) where they can dish up pretty stuff 
(and advertisements) to you all day long.  And buy things in Windows store where they can charge you 
that 30% markup.  That is after all where 99% of tablets and their users spend their time right?  
Sounds like a much healthier profit center for Windows.  Google is in charge of Android, and the 
Google store, and Google search and rakes in all the profits from ads in those search streams.  Bing 
is and has always been a non-contender.  But if we can lasso users to sit and stare at pages of 
tiles with pretty changing pictures and flash up subliminal advertisements (putting on my tin foil 
hat here), and default to the BING search engine for moving around the internet, we can start raking 
in some of that loot.

And if we get in the way of real work... well that is the price of doing business eh?  And... 
another opportunity to serve you up a very relevant advertisement.

from one of the UI designers:

http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-8-ux-designer-on-metro-it-is-the-antithesis-of-a-power-user

>>>Windows 8 was designed for  the latter group: the content consumers. This is also where Metro stems from: it is a platform 
that is "simple, clear, and does one thing (and only one thing) relatively easily." Miller described 
Metro as/the antithesis of a power user/.

So does it really sound like it's time for me to re-install Windows 8?  ;)

Maybe it's time for y'all to reinstall Windows 7?  ;)

John W. Colby

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it