Meanwhile, MS's attack plan against Chromebooks is in full swing, with people actually buying Win 8.1 Chrome Killer machines spec'd with not enough memory and not enough processor to work very well.
Folks think they love their Windows enough to make up for the slack, but what they are finding out is that slow and slower wears VERY quickly on the nerves. Once a chrome killer starts to accumulate some industry standard bloatware and mostly fills up its minimal drive space with local loaded games and programs,
it slows down to be unusable fairly quickly.
Yes, Virginia --
MS OS products do slow down naturally as the system accumulates poorly integrated updates, the registry gets ugly and the patchwork becomes even more patchy over time.
A full drive can become PAINFULLY slow as it loses the space to write a larger file without stopping to shift other things around to have enough room to do it ......
and remember, the biggest files on your PC are your registry files which are always getting added to and replaced every single day of your life. Once your MS OS decides to fragment your larger files, things get really really really slow since every read and every write get involved in dealing with split files.
All this is doing is making it painfully clear that Win 8.1 is just a porky slow "ever growing" OS compared to Mac OS and to Chrome OS when you run it on competitive sized hardware.
Those with enough money are running to Mac in droves.
The world is quickly learning that "local load" MS products require a lot of resources compared to Web based products. Of the things available now that run off the web, Chromebooks sets the performance pace with Chrome Killers coming up further and further behind in most aspects.
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Microsoft is learning along with everybody else .... a bit more quickly since starting up the Chrome Killer class of Win 8.1 laptops to be sure, but learning all the same.
There is yet another rewrite of Win 10 choking its way through MS -- this time actually intending to go for some speed and
better use of resources. Finally.
MS realizes that if they drop what they got for Win 10 right now into the current marketplace it will lose yet again -- so it is try try try try try again time at MS.
MS is also finally telling the truth about "the free Windows 10" -- not really free at all, just free for the first 6 months after you get it in FALL of 2015, after which the subscription fees begin in 2016.
Will Win 10 be good enough? Not right now ..... but there is time enough to try try yet again.HOWEVER, Win 10 is good enough to cause Apple to do better. Win 10 is good enough to cause Google to do better. Thank you MS, for getting our favorite vendors to do better even more quickly than before.
Is Win 10 good enough to be your one and only computing venue? No.That boat has sailed --- people like their tablets for casual consumption. People like their phones for casual consumption. People use PCs at work or for sitting down whacking away at work stuff at home.
Yes, you
can use a PC to do everything --- but you already have the phone and you already have the tablet.
And in some cases you already have your Chromebook too .....