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You know why Windows 9 was never released ??
Because when Microsoft rolled out Windows 8 with that horrible tiled based interface as their "Convergence GUI" there was something WAY more insidious underneath that brain numbingly bad interface. It was the fact that Microsoft had to try to make Windows work on a phone, a tablet, a desktop, a video game console...EVEN THE ZUNE MP3 PLAYER... ALL with either Intel inside or PowerPC in the case of the X-Bone. The problem was two fold. Microsoft SUCKS at making a more lithe, modular version of Windows OS to suit the needs of a Windows Phone or Tablet, or low powered 2n1 Windows based laptop like a Chromebook, not to mention rewriting Windows for a wholly different architecture like the IBM PowerPC. So...TWO different architectures, WAY different Power to Watt performance needs AND stuck with the same shitty hard to optimize Windows OS base.
Therefore, Windows 8 was an UNMITIGATED DISASTER from every respect. So much so that Microsoft abandoned Windows 9 and went "Back To The Future" with Windows 10. They left the Music Player market. They left the Phone market. Intel left the portables and phone market as well when they shuttered the Atom CPU. Convergence was and still is DEAD with Microsoft.
Unless they take a page from the one company on Earth that has pulled it off. Apple. Even Google will beat Microsoft to the punch. Their ChromeOS / Android match up is pretty darn close to total convergence albeit in a multi-container way.
And the Computing Architecture that allows Google and Apple and eventually Microsoft to converge.....is ARM. Buh Bye x-86. Thanks for the last 40 years of computing. ARM will take it from here for the next 40. Tick Tock Linux
Because when Microsoft rolled out Windows 8 with that horrible tiled based interface as their "Convergence GUI" there was something WAY more insidious underneath that brain numbingly bad interface. It was the fact that Microsoft had to try to make Windows work on a phone, a tablet, a desktop, a video game console...EVEN THE ZUNE MP3 PLAYER... ALL with either Intel inside or PowerPC in the case of the X-Bone. The problem was two fold. Microsoft SUCKS at making a more lithe, modular version of Windows OS to suit the needs of a Windows Phone or Tablet, or low powered 2n1 Windows based laptop like a Chromebook, not to mention rewriting Windows for a wholly different architecture like the IBM PowerPC. So...TWO different architectures, WAY different Power to Watt performance needs AND stuck with the same shitty hard to optimize Windows OS base.
Therefore, Windows 8 was an UNMITIGATED DISASTER from every respect. So much so that Microsoft abandoned Windows 9 and went "Back To The Future" with Windows 10. They left the Music Player market. They left the Phone market. Intel left the portables and phone market as well when they shuttered the Atom CPU. Convergence was and still is DEAD with Microsoft.
Unless they take a page from the one company on Earth that has pulled it off. Apple. Even Google will beat Microsoft to the punch. Their ChromeOS / Android match up is pretty darn close to total convergence albeit in a multi-container way.
And the Computing Architecture that allows Google and Apple and eventually Microsoft to converge.....is ARM. Buh Bye x-86. Thanks for the last 40 years of computing. ARM will take it from here for the next 40. Tick Tock Linux
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