Windows 8 - Combining a toaster with a fridge

[irneb]

BTW, It seems that the hype on moving towards cloud-based has gotten another kick-start. They've now gotten even decent 3D-Games running through JavaScript on a web page:

http://blog.bitops.com/blog/2013/05/01/unreal-javascript/

So if they can do that, I'm seeing lots of other programs capable of running on something like a ChromeBook. And if they can get the programs running through JS, it means it runs through the browser - which means the OS doesn't matter anymore. I.e. death to Windows, OSX and Linux Desktop ... all you need is an absolutely minimal bootup system which launches a web browser. Note, it need not be "cloud" based - there's nothing stopping anyone from running the JS code from a local saved html file. It's just that the cloud pundits would use this as another reason to entise people onto their servers.

[popayetwo]

Long Live WinXP

[DeonT]

Just thought you'd like to know that Microsoft will stop supporting Windows XP next year: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windo...ofsupport.aspx According their their website, business software products get only 10 year's support.

[irneb]

Just thought you'd like to know that Microsoft will stop supporting Windows XP next year: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windo...ofsupport.aspx According their their website, business software products get only 10 year's support.

If that's the case I see some people start to move onto ReactOS. Even though it's still in Alpha stage, it might get a boost if more people start using it because they can't use XP legitimately anymore.

[irneb]

Just came across this: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=74

Seems that at least one of MS's programmers admit to Windows becoming poorer as time goes on. And he gives some reasons why it's happening. But since W8's performance has increased, might it be that MS heeded this and are at least trying to fix the broken beast?