BLUE?

[egdufwollamhsram1851]

In the daily paper today, Msft is redoing win 8 to something called Blue?

later this year?

[Train]

A read about it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...sign-windows-8

[egdufwollamhsram1851]

seems to be echoing all over

The blame for that was put squarely at Sinofsky's door by Bob O'Donnell of the research company IDC: "At this point, unfortunately, it seems clear that the Windows 8 launch not only failed to provide a positive boost to the PC market, but appears to have slowed the market," he said.

"The costs associated with touch have made PCs a less attractive alternative to dedicated tablets and other competitive devices."

However Reller gave no other hints about what's coming, or when. That's a problem in itself, said Richard Doherty of Envisioneering, a market research company: "they had the Vista misstep in 2007 [when an earlier Windows update alienated users] and this is more of that. They're telling people 'take it or leave it', and consumers have been leaving it."

Even so analysts don't think the Start button will return in exactly that form.

[SpywareDr]

The next update to Windows 8 is codenamed Windows Blue and is expected to be an iterative update (think: Windows 8.1).

[egdufwollamhsram1851]

Apparently or from my observations of os upgrades or new ones, is it user frustration, that brings all the discussion, it seems with a new product one just has to learn to use it? just curious

[SpywareDr]

... one just has to learn to use it?

Or, much to Microsoft's chagrin, NOT.