No More Windows Desktop?

[GWguy]

Windows 'Blue' confirms desktop's days are numbered | Microsoft Windows - InfoWorld

Microsoft won't back away from a radical overall of Windows and is determined to kill the decades-old, decades-rich desktop, analysts agreed today.

The experts were reacting to a leak of a preliminary build of Windows "Blue," the code name for the anticipated summer upgrade to the five-month-old Windows 8. That build, which has hit file-sharing websites, includes numerous cosmetic fixes and feature improvements, all in the "Modern" user interface, or UI, the tile-based, touch-first half of Windows 8 formerly called "Metro."

"Microsoft is serious about the Modern UI," said Patrick Moorhead, principal of Moor Insights & Strategy, of the Modern-only changes. "They're sending a signal that [Modern] is the future for Windows."

 

[czygvtwkr]

This is their desperate attempt at the mobile marketshare.

 

[desertrat]

Windows 'Blue' confirms desktop's days are numbered | Microsoft Windows - InfoWorld

I thought I read you could make it happen. It just wasn't there to start with.

 

[RPMDAD]

And Microsoft will lose more customers.

 

[abcxyz]

I wany my desktop/laptop to be just that and my mobile computing just that as well.

 

[jrt_ms1995]

Windows 'Blue' confirms desktop's days are numbered | Microsoft Windows - InfoWorld

Can one infer this implies a return to MS-DOS 3.3? One can hope, right?

 

[somdfunguy]

I thought I read you could make it happen. It just wasn't there to start with.

you can, 3rd party tools

ClassicShell
Start8 (Paid)
StartW8

 

[aps45819]

And Microsoft will lose more customers.

As long as it's the government standard they'll have lots of customers