Acer is the latest maker to delay plans for a Windows RT fondletop Acer has postponed the release of its Windows RT tab on the channels say so as it waits to see how market adoption rates develop. The Taiwanese giant had planned to push out its version around February next year but EMEA president Oliver Ahrens confirmed the date has slipped by a couple of months. "We talk to channel partners …
We can only hope it fails, because RT is basically an Apple style jail cell without the pretty garden.
The more consumers stupidly vote with their dollars for monolithic control by a single corporation over the devices they purchase, the sooner the internet will revert to something akin to the dark ages of Compuserve and AOL a decade ago.
And, you will find you don't really own what you paid for anymore. Like a Playstation, if you alter it, hack it, put something on it they don't want you to, you'll get sued, locked out, penalized.
All that can be done with clever combinations of copyright and license agreements you have to sign at purchase, which usually nobody reads.
Like Apple's new Lightning connector: copyrighted, even though it does nothing that a standard USB connector couldn't do just as well. And it has a chip built in, solely to prevent you from plugging something in that Apple doesn't want you to plug in.
I hope people wake up before these things turn even more extreme.
"Please stop repeating this tired old meme. It's complete rubbish and shows up the people who repeat it as knowing nothing about Windows."
True. Windows 9 will be a pile of shit just like Windows 1 through to 8. There was a reason they had to get it included with the computer and why they still put a lot of effort into that particular packaging trick - they know they couldn't shift it any other way.
Interesting, what makes you think Windows 9 will be here by 2014?
History is against you, given that only Me has had a life lasting for such a short time and that had more to do with introducing the NT core to the home than anything else.
95 lasted 3 years, 98 lasted 2 years (only 1 if you actually believe that 98SE was a whole new OS), Me lasted for 13 months, XP lasted for 5 years, Vista just shy of 3 years and 7 3 years.
For 9 to be here in 2014 you have to believe that 8 will be as unloved as Me was, which from all i've heard from people who have actually used it, is not the case - everyone is stating it runs quicker than 7 on the same hardware.
> the amount of bloatware, software trials, tool bars and other useless cruft
The article is talking about Windows RT, there is _no_ bloatware, software trials, tool bars or other cruft, useless or not, because there is no software for it*.
* beyond some converted phone apps - and Windows RT is not a phone.
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