The long kiss goodbye for x86 desktop Windows
23.02.12

My two ZDNet colleagues, David Gewirtz and Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols have gotten themselves into a bit of a lover’s quarrel. SJVN says that Windows 8 will be dead on arrival , and yet Gewirtz says that Windows 8 will matter for real work, as will Windows 9.
Seriously guys, get a room.
Both of these men have some interesting viewpoints to offer. Neither of them are correct, though — the real answer lies somewhere in between.
Back in September, shortly after the completion of Microsoft’s BUILD conference, I did some preliminary analysis of the huge pile of information that Redmond dumped on us that week. The conclusion that I came to was that Microsoft had handed down the death sentence for the Personal Computer as we know it today.
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Source: ZDNet (blog)