On 06/16/2012 12:01 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 1:27 PM, walt <[email protected]> wrote: >> FWIW, I recently tried Windows 8 beta (on virtualbox, of course) >> and I found it unusable. Why? Because they are rushing to >> catch up with gnome3. Their new desktop looks very much like >> a smartphone. >> >> I guess they figure the desktop will be extinct relatively soon >> and their customer base will vanish unless they capture the >> smartphone market. > > Or they realized that the "old" users doesn't really matter, because > what is important is the younger generation being raised using > smartphones and tablets, and which play with Wii, Xbox Kinect or PS3 > Move. That's the important market, and the future. > > BTW, using GNOME 3 for more than one year in my laptop and desktop, > and I love it. I also want a tablet with it.
Well, now it becomes clear. I just read that MS has officially released Surface, its new Win8-powered tablet.
