Windows 8 News

The Microsoft Windows 8 team probably had a strategy defined before they were even brought on to build Windows 8. How much say does the development team have on altering the strategy? Can they even have some free thinking on improvements?

We continue to look through blogs, forums, and other anonymous sources of reliable information to find hints and clues to the actual Windows 8 strategy. A few leaks coming out tell stories of employees being overworked and extremely busy. Of course Microsoft isn’t the first company to challenge their employees by pushing their limits.

Windows 8 builds so far seem to focus heavily on Microsoft’s live strategy and excessive idea grabbing from Apple. Obviously we’ll continue to investigate these particular issues. With Windows 8 build milestones getting near, we should see some sensitive strategy information leak out within the next few weeks! We will continue to deliver Windows 8 in the most honest, open, and transparent way we can! Stay Tuned, Windows 8 is not far away!

Microsoft is giving everyone gifts for Windows 8. These gifts are of course pre-installed applications that come with the default install of Windows 8. These are powerful tools that acknowledge & contribute to creativity and insight of Windows 8 users. The default tools within the Windows 8 install will be basic, but offer upgrades using micro payments to give you added bonuses and features.

Probably additional add-on third party tools can also be downloaded from a marketplace. I foresee anyone designing applications for Windows 8 will submit their projects to this Windows 8 3rd party marketplace.  Will this be gladly accepted? We think so. Windows 8 will offer the community videos to learn these new tools, inspire you to create powerful projects! The true gift of Windows 8 is helping you learn, making you an artist!

Hopefully this dream doesn’t get destroyed and we end up with a smaller less innovative push into the future with Windows 8.

What is our responsibility to our audience? Our job is provoke you into asking hard questions. Make you think! Of course, we’ll continue to focus on Windows 8! Make site improvements as our community grows! But ultimately, we are here to make you think about the impacts that Windows 8 will have on the lives of billions of people.

We have no false transparency, nobody is dictating what we can post, and we definitely are not sellouts! We have no advertising and will try to keep it that way! We’ll tell you like it is and expect you to let us know how we are doing! We want to tell you stories, not something you hear a hundred times! We also ask that you work with us to figure out what all this news means! You are invited to join our already great community at Windows 8 Forums!

We’ll tell it to you straight! We will guide you to Windows 8 successfully! You can even tell us what you want in Windows 8! Tell us what bothers you, we are all listening! As time goes on, we’ll bring you the latest news as soon as possible!

The direction of Windows 8 depends on people like you!

What makes Windows 8 worth talking about? It touches us all and we fear the unknowns of what Windows 8 will change! Will it make us faster and more flexible? Will it be hard to learn? Can I use Windows 8 for entertainment? Will it change my life by removing everyday tasks?

All these questions we are looking to answer for Windows 8, like a TV episode of Lost! We are dying for some Windows 8 answers! The best response we can offer right now is Microsoft takes moves very slowly on designing something new. They come up with great ideas and hold off on implementing those ideas, I’d assume the same will be done with Windows 8. Security gets improved, the graphical user interface changes a little bit, just enough that you love the new packaging and want to buy it! Windows 8 will be Windows 7 with a patch.

What else is worth talking about Windows 8? The design process! The thoughts behind the architecture! Do they think like the end users or the developer? Will Windows 8 be worth its weight in gold? What justifies the increase in prices?

Basically we are all looking to be impressed with Windows 8 in our own form. We want overkill for everything! Good luck Microsoft, we’ll help you with ideas.

How do you judge success? What are you judging the success of Windows 8 on? I often hear: Ease of usage, fewer clicks, better software or cooler games. Almost everything lies on the graphical interface and software that works well with the operating system. Lately, you have the average user who wants it to just function, and the developer who wants freedom to develop. What will Windows 8 provide? Read the rest of this entry »

It is estimated that there will be more than two billion PCs in use by 2015.* Imagine that environmental impact if 75% of these computers use Microsoft’s Windows 8. If designed even slightly more power hungry then they could be what waste would that create?

Should Microsoft spend more time researching better options for little things? I could point out any major company with a global product, but Windows 8 will be my example, since this is a Windows 8 blog.

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Windows 8 planning stage will make the difference between good and great, yet they let few know how they structure the process! Tell the people what they should hear: that Microsoft is working hard and remains much focused on the task! If the management team takes the time, turns off the electronics, and just gets together and thinks I think they could change the world with Windows 8, like Windows 95 did.

With the slow economy and fights at all costs to be more frugal definitely doesn’t help evolve new ideas, just improve efficiency. Does the Windows 8 meditate on new ideas, push away the pains of corporate reality and just ignore everyone not on the team? We are time-starved, competitive, and the distractions within the workplace are great challenges. How does Microsoft go about isolating the Windows 8 decision makers? I can only imagine that the politics are amazing. Read the rest of this entry »

You hope and pray Microsoft will make a decent Windows 8 for you. The problem is people don’t think like you. We are all the only one of its kind and like politics we all think different, we want different things. Windows 8 needs to make everyone happy to maintain the market share of its operating systems of the past. We all wish to be unique and focus on separating ourselves from others.

Should they focus on a more narrow market? How should they segment the markets? I could see Windows 8 customizing the operating system into focus markets based on behavior, geographical, political, or focus on business types compared to home users. Make the kernel compatibility between each customized region easy and options to switch Windows 8’s focus (for example ‘American to European’)

Why does Microsoft keep a majority? They don’t add many features; it’s easier that way to maintain a majority. Does Microsoft really need Windows 8 as a majority market share? I think everyone would be better off splitting Windows 8 into different projects. Ultimately, you probably won’t be completely satisfied, because you want what others don’t. That’s Life!

What if Microsoft wasn’t the corporation behind Windows 8? Windows 8 you say? YES! Lets get a little crazy! YEEEHAAA How would you feel if Nike or Pepsi shocked the world and bought Microsoft’s future operating system? Windows 8 designed by someone other than Microsoft could shake up the operating system market! What about a chocolate company, cadbury or hersey’s?

We are pretty confident that this would never happen of course. Why would a company that has no business getting into an operating system wish to buy an operating system? To diversify and sell their other products, control advertising, and dictate the behaviors of the users using an operating system such as Windows 8.  Of course, they wouldn’t keep the name Microsoft and would probably rename Windows 8 to something like “Delicious”.

The point of this Windows 8 article? Technology starts off being fresh and new, it reaches maturity and all is well,  then greed sets in during the decline. They exploit the shit out of the remaining customers and tries to go nuts with advertising tactics of pushing their other products or playing games with rebates. Commercialization is great to a point of decline! The only chance Microsoft has with Windows 8 would be a fresh ground breaking idea.

Windows 7 advertisements show a well mixed demographic verify of home users claiming they created Windows 7, as they submitted ideas to Microsoft during public beta of Windows 7. Naturally the input of the home user will influence the development of Windows 8. So, we asked the members of the Windows 8 Forums: What did Windows 7 miss? According to the users at Windows 8 Forums in the Request Hall, Windows 7 just doesn’t have everything on their wishlist!

Here are a few requests for Windows 8:

• Power Savings
• More Control of the Home
• Dual Monitor Native Support
• Ad Supported Windows 8
• Windows 8 Nerd Detection (hide advanced features)

Can you help improve Windows 8? Do you have any ideas for Windows 8? Microsoft would like to know!