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Yea, it's a great idea, and a cool feature, but I don't think it will be enough to make Windows 8 a success. Especially so soon after Windows 7. There's just not enough benefit in 8 to make companies want to migrate again in my opinion.

@Lunix...how about companies whoare still using XP that are looking to migrate.

Since all businesses don't migrate at the same time, Windos 8 could pose to have features businesses want. Especially with a matching phone and tablet. Ther can be businesses that standardize on all 3 together which is likely what MS is aiming for with such tight integration. No other platform has this and it is a good selling point.

Remember, Windows XP is still in 60% usage. If 1/2 of them adopt Windows 8, that still a lot of people. And 3 years behind is 7 is MS usual timetable. However it is usually after SP1 adoption takes place in businesses.

When Windows 9x was the norm, most businesses easily updated from 95 to 98 bec they pretty much offer 100% compatibility. 9x was more like upgrades vs completely new softwares. Even tho 7 is technically an upgarde of Vista, Windows 8 capitalizes on the foundation of 7, but is a new OS.

This could cause a leap for those waiting to skip 7 and take on 8. Bec facts in numbers show that by the time most businesse roll out on a new OS, the next latest is already on the table and leaking info.

MS has 65% of business and te rest of us make up the 35% of MS's total business. That 35% sells over 200M computers every year. So even if only 1/2 adopt the new OS MS is doing well, bec if 1/2 the businesses adopt it too, that means MS will still sell at lease 350M licenses ad that is good for MS.

Tho tech writer continue to say Vista was a flop, MS still sold over 350M licenses. That certainly isn't a flop. What other software maker on the planet can say they have a single program selling in such high numbers? NONE of them!!! lol

Sorry for name misspelling...@Linux :-)

QUADICON, on 23 June 2011 - 10:38 AM, said:

That is a legitimate possibility, but the latest numbers I've seen suggest that XP is not at 60%, but closer to 40%. While that's still a large number, we have to take into consideration that Windows 8 is not here yet, and won't be for probably another year. During that time, companies that want to upgrade their Windows XP systems are going to go to the version that's currently available.

It's also worth noting that many large companies are hesitant to go with the latest/greatest right out of the gate. They prefer to let the software mature a little bit. Once they've taken the plunge, custom images are created which are used over and over on their existing hardware. They're not going to jump on the next big thing and throw away all that work.

I don't want it to appear that I'm saying that Windows 8 will be a flop. I don't think that's the case. I'm sure it will do very well. All I'm saying is that there will have to be more motivation to upgrade than just a built in super cool hypervisor, and that goes double for those that have already upgraded to Windows 7.

Windows 8 needs to go back to the basics. Simple but elegant and much cheaper.

Great description of what the direction MS is going with the next generation OS.

If Windows 8 can run all of the software that Windows 7 can run it will be a success. If software has to be re-coded to run on Windows 8 people will just skip Windows 8 and wait for Windows 9 or switch to a different platform such as OSX, Linux or even Android is becoming robust enough to stand alone.

The real improvement in Windows 8 will be no more BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!!

Instead it will now be the black screen of death

lol

http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/win8-bsod.png

This post has been edited by RickDobbelmannqbtt: 23 June 2011 - 12:52 PM

The best thing about Win8 is that I won't care. After the early years of MS being cool, it hasn't been kewl but corporate. I started with Dos (and mini computers) and while a laptop with Vista was awful, I took my last drink of the koolaid and upgraded it to Win7 with a three-pack.
I still spend all my time on my old Desktop running XP. And don't think it will EVER get license2 from that 3-pack.

Work FINALLY push out IE 8, so IE6 is gone. Still XP Pro + Office2003 Don't underestimate the inertia of large corporations! Or old people!

Grins

Hypervisors have one outstanding issue that needs resolution before Windows 8 (or anyone else for that matter) could declare virtualisation a success in the consumer market: video.

Most hypervisors cannot access the hardware acceleration in video cards. There has been some success with OpenGL but DirectX hypervisor support is woefully inadequate and Microsoft has made little to no effort to correct that.

Windows is dead and so is MS. Long live whoever it is that takes their place.