Mark Breen
marklbreen at gmail.com
Tue Jul 24 03:00:56 CDT 2012
Hello Gustav, Yes, I understand your comments, I first experienced Anti-Microsoft sentiment on this list back in 97 and was shocked when I became aware of it. Over the years, I was always disappointed to see Anti-Microsoft people, I always thought they delivered reasonably good products, and sometimes super products. However, my faith in Microosft started to change from 100% to 85% when I tried to use Vista, VS 2008, SQL Server and struggled with performance. The IE situation also colours my view on MS. That faith was somewhat restored with Win 7. I am still very slow with the ribbon, and resent that slowness. On the up site for MS, I have been using Azure over the last few weeks and it is astonishing, I cannot believe the power it provides. Metro it is the GUI for Windows 2012 Server BTW. Thanks Mark On 20 July 2012 16:07, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote: > Hi Mark > > The whining isn't new: > > "I don't need anything more fancy than my Windows 98" > "I have no use for the new features of Office 2003" > "Oh my! A ribbon. I want the menus back!" > > The difference now is that this time Microsoft is ahead of the market. > This, of course, means that it will take some time for the majority to > catch up. > "I don't want Windows 8". Think again. Could you imagine an xPad type > tablet with a Windows interface? Hardly, except if you have very slim > fingers. Further, people like me have no use for an iPad or the like other > than browsing and read mail. Too little to decide for a purchase. > > For the last months I've used Access 2010 a lot more than previously > (=nearly nil). A little to my surprise (lots of whining about the ribbon > also on this list), the ribbon works very well. > > And since the Developer Preview (now the Consumer Preview) I have used > Windows 8 every day and it runs rock steady. The Desktop is one click or > keypress away and I wonder what the lousy Start menu was for. So I'm > looking forward to the 26th of October where Win8 will finally be released > - and probably the Surface machines as well. > > /gustav > > > >>> marklbreen at gmail.com 20-07-12 10:19 >>> > Hello All, > > I know that I am not alone, but does anyone here think that the market are > not going to want to switch to Win8 / Off 13? > > I mean, could this release be the worst every for MS? > > It is the first ever OS and Off release that I dread. > > Finally, did you all see the financial results for MS today?, Imagine what > we will be reading in a years time. > > Or am I being too pessimistic? > > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >