Windows 8 really?

Claymoore

petedude wrote: »

Yeah, but every time M$ includes something in the base OS to replace third-party software, some other little company gets their business $$ taken away.

Not often. MS may wait until the patent expires to include an implementation of a particular technology, they may license a stripped-down version of a product from the company that can still sell the full-featured version, or they may just buy the company outright. MS is careful about this after the antitrust issues with IE. MS and the DOJ spent a lot of money fighting about IE and it turns out that we have better browser technology and more choice today even though IE is bundled with Windows.

PC509

I'm looking forward to Windows 8, from a personal and a professional viewpoint. It's going to be a great OS. Of course, delaying upgrading for several years and sticking with an outdated OS is a lot less secure and reliable than it is to implement a new, more secure OS sooner. Yes, compatibility is an issue, but it isn't as bad as it is made out to be. I think a lot of it comes down to compatibility with the wallet. If it works, don't touch it - people on XP aren't having any issues (yet) that warrant a change to Windows 7. The OS is just a launching pad to the end users main applications. It doesn't need to be much, as long as it works.

I can see why companies don't upgrade, even though there are numerous reasons why they should upgrade. $$ and the transparency of the OS.

For me, though, I'm going to immerse myself in Windows 8 like I did with 7 and Vista and XP and 2000 before it. Start with the beta and dig deep into it, finding it's little quirks and playing with them.

Claymoore

Hyper-V is now included in Windows 8. Now you won't need VirtualBox to run Server 2008 R2 for demos and labs:

In building Windows 8 we worked to enable Hyper-V, the machine virtualization technology that has been part of the last 2 releases of Windows Server, to function on the client OS as well. In brief, Hyper-V lets you run more than one 32-bit or 64-bit x86 operating system at the same time on the same computer. Instead of working directly with the computer’s hardware, the operating systems run inside of a virtual machine (VM).

Bringing Hyper-V to ?Windows 8? - Building Windows 8 - Site Home - MSDN Blogs