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mk  ·  4274 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Windows 8 only the beginning of Microsoft's problems

    Spoken like someone who has never owned a Windows phone.

No. I've only tinkered around with my brother-in-law's, and it was pretty ho-hum. That's why I think MS should just spin off their own enterprise version of Android. There's no way that they are going to be able to catch up with Windows Mobile, or a any other de novo mobile OS.

    but the Windows machine I use to tweak my bike is XPSP3 and will stay that way forever.

After years with a ThinkPad that I wiped Vista off of for XPSP3, I was very happy to get a Lenovo with Windows 7. 7 is like XPSP3 without the excruciatingly slow boot. My only mistake was not getting the SSD version. Windows 7 on a SSD laptop, and I think I'd be set for five more years at least.





kleinbl00  ·  4274 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Scary thing is that backintheday, Windows Mobile was the only thing you could reasonably run. Blackberry? Please. Palm? Forget it. Windows Mobile was actually a stripped-down version of Windows, and it did okay... but they made conscious decisions to have a "start" button and a desktop and all the stuff that made XP what XP was. Which didn't pan out very well on a 240x320 screen. So they had a monopoly on the market, and were annihilated by an OS that couldn't even handle Exchange properly until version 4.

XPSP3 off an SSD is pretty snappy, even on an eeePC. Just sayin'.