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On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 1:27 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> FWIW, I recently tried Windows 8 beta (on virtualbox, of course) |
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> and I found it unusable. Why? Because they are rushing to |
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> catch up with gnome3. Their new desktop looks very much like |
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> a smartphone. |
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> I guess they figure the desktop will be extinct relatively soon |
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> and their customer base will vanish unless they capture the |
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> smartphone market. |
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Or they realized that the "old" users doesn't really matter, because |
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what is important is the younger generation being raised using |
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smartphones and tablets, and which play with Wii, Xbox Kinect or PS3 |
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Move. That's the important market, and the future. |
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BTW, using GNOME 3 for more than one year in my laptop and desktop, |
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and I love it. I also want a tablet with it. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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