A little tech rant. (Warning opinionated opinion is opinionated)

[Hammerskjold]

You can't teach an old dog new tricks?

Yep, sadly not in MS case it seems. I want the Surface Pro to be improved upon, because I think it has serious potentials. But my bet is it can easily go the way of the Zune.

They have certainly trampled on better systems from years ago that I would still prefer to this day.

To paraphrase a comment I read elsewhere, " I like it better when MS 'borrowed' other people's good ideas. Now they just borrow the bad ones, make it worse and call it an improvement."

For some reason it looks to me MS -wants- to ape the late Steve Jobs's famous 'one more thing... -Cue the choir adulation and applause'. Maybe it just wants to be loved and lusted the same way Apple die hards have over their silver and white objet d'art?

I like some mobile apps. Specifically, I like that -some- of them are forced into creating software that is efficient and nearly bloat free, because the lower hardware spec disciplines\forces them to be.

Having said that, no one I've seen is rushing to do spreadsheet calcs on their Iphones. No one I've seen is rushing to do a job requiring a lot of typing, strictly on a tablet (without a keyboard add-on).

Yes Angry Birds is a huuuuge hit. But even when computechnomancy reaches the stage where tablets\smartphones can run a game like Skyrim\Crysis, well I still kinda like to sit down and go mouse\keyboard. Or at least a game pad and a couch. When that technosingularity enabled super tablet is a reality, I will likely still want a way to connect to a bigger display than a tablet\phone. Then that becomes...a desktop configuration.

This is one of my favourite visual artist, Goro Fujita. http://www.photoshopcafe.com/interviews/goro.htm
His sketches on the ipad are awesome IMO. But for finished pro work, he still uses a desktop configuration.

TL,DR:

I hope MS Win 9 (or better yet Win8 service pack) will follow the Startrek movies rule, where every other film is a good or at least not a complete stinker.

I reeeally hope MS-Wintel remembers there's a reason why suits, labcoats, overclocking gamers with garish taste in case mods and yes, even creative types likes PCs. Modularity and affordability are still a 'good thing'. Bolting on training wheels, but -not- welding them shut is still, a 'good thing' in my books.

Then again, that would require MS Wintel to -listen- to their user base.

I hope saner minds prevail, and Win9 is not some glorified phablet OS, requiring a 24/7 online connection and MS-Subscription for cloud storage\cloud computing. (It's the smallest and leanest WINDOZE EVAH!) Hell why wouldn't you buy it, it autosyncs with Itunes, Facebook, Twitter, Battlenet 2.0, and Xbox Live. Of course to buy it you need to buy a new Wintel box, because MS OS-9 is no longer sold as a standalone product.

The OS has evolved, physical media is dead anyway. It's all about the 'store apps (totally not like the appstore guys for realsies)' and subscription model of the future.

'Luddites' who still requires a computer for oh I dunno, working, better learn up or else need not apply. Besides, who actually 'works' on a computer nowadays anyway? The future is here people, and we have an app for that.