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        <title><![CDATA[Few of my users have tablets]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[and few will likely ever get one.  Have you tried it on a desktop or conventional laptop, with a mouse and a keyboard?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:09:07 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Windows 8 Consumer preview]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have been using windows 8 Consumer Preview on my Eee- slate (PC) for almost 2 months now. I have run all software that I normally use &amp; I have had no major problems.  This includes database applications that were developed under windows 7.  These databases worked first time &amp; every time with zero conversions &amp; issues.  As for the Metro Interface: you get used to it. It does take a little time, but it becomes 2nd nature very fast (Note: on screen help tiles would have made things a little easier).  The tiles are great for gadget replacement, and for large fingers, visual or dexterity impairment..  I had previously looked into getting an IPad (a very nice piece of hardware), but it lacks direct compatibility with PC applications of any serious nature. Too many of you are stating that corporations won't upgrade to win 8; but they will, since the cost is only the upgrade of the OS, and a switch to iOS isn't feasible..Win8 will still run their existing office apps, cad, &amp; business software, just as I have been doing for 2 months..  If you don't like Metro just push the desktop tile, you can set up the taskbar with the apps from the start menu &amp; work as you always have. When there is something new it takes a little time, to get things right , just ask Apple about their previous tablet failures.  Oh Yeah! There is no replacement for handwriting with a capacitive pen with a fine point tip (no rubber) &amp; have that info go right into your database or document. I may never type again.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[labff]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:26:25 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[XP Pro]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Nothing from MS has impressed me since XP Pro as far as the UI.Sure there were security flaws, but I still prefer XP over any UI since.Vista is tolerable but W7 and from what I have seen of W8, no thanks.Maybe its time to move to another platform. Should I dig out my SPARCstation and update Solaris ? ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[n2iph]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 04:32:42 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[To The Cloud....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Just throw in a few buzzwords and a catchy presentation with an android tablet. (zing)CIO's will blow up the budget on Win8 then. Corporate IT will remove all fun from the final product. Muahahah.Its Beta people. Calm down.But it will be interesting to see how the windows tablets fit into the market, and dare I say Kinect integration would be nice feature to see. But they definately need to up the ante. Windows 7 is pretty sweet and just slapping metro on it, is not going to cut it.We had a hard enough time wrangling Windows XP from the corporate end users clutches.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dyalect]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:26:46 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Outstanding.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[And it should be followed with, &quot;If you did upgrade within a year, was it a mass upgrade of all existing systems, or one at a time as new systems were installed?&quot;]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:04:22 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Not according to MS.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Redmond gang say it will leverage development by unifying corporate applications across traditional and mobile devices.Pretty good, huh?  I should be writing mission statements.In short, no; MS says it's not oriented solely toward consumers.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:02:42 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The article is missing a required lead-in question...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The lead-in question that SHOULD have been answered by all of the CIOs first was:  &quot;Has your company EVER upgraded Windows within a year after a new version release (ie, early adopters)?&quot;95% or more of businesses are going to wait at least a year after release before CONSIDERING an upgrade to the desktop OS.  Most will wait 2 years or more.  The value for them is that their employees will start acquiring PCs with the new operating system and **training themselves** in its use.  No training outlay for the business and much less impact on work throughput once the business upgrades to the new OS.This article, in starting with a false premise, makes it appear that there is no business value in Windows 8 - but all the CIOs were careful to state that they don't see a reason to upgrade &quot;now&quot; instead of waiting until after their investments in the current OS are paid off.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[gevander]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:44:01 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[W8 Fails to WOW CIO's]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Well, of course!W-8 is orientated  towards  the consumer - not enterprise.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Crashin Chris]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:23:56 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Everyone - Don't be the ginny pig]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Microsoft: Face the facts.  Every other end user release is crap.  You would save us all a bunch of hassle if you treated every other version as throw away - Still build it but do not release it to anyone.  Millenium - all bad.  Vista - all bad.  Windows 8 - don't release it.  Message to everyone - we consumers are paying the price for Microsoft's experiments.  We should all boycott every other release - Or at least every other release should be free (the crappy one).]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Matusko]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 07:56:21 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Windows 8 UI]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have yet to see why anyone would want a touch UI on a laptop or desktop.  It would seem that CADD, Graphic Arts, or large spreadsheets would have reduced productivity.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mike five]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 07:19:50 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I fail to see the value proposition]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have zero customers using Windows 8 as a factor in their decision making at this time. Some of them just agreed to upgrade to 7 this year because the &quot;Small&quot; end of the SMB market doesn't do OS replacements except when they do hardware refresh because they're almost always running an OEM license, making an in-place upgrade catastrophically expensive--most of the money it would cost to just buy a new machine.So that's what they do, instead.Enterprises and mid-size companies are different, but I see no value for those customers, either--they just got clipped for a load of cash two years ago to beef up in-place hardware (and buy beefier hardware for life cycle replacements) and will need something more than a start menu removal to drive a purchasing decision.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[tom.marsh@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 06:42:56 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[wee7 as wee8]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[well that should be a good solution and replace IE9 by IE10 and all the goodies of w8 in w7.and call it W8 Desktop version.............]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[amj2010]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:20:31 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Windows 8 ?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Linux if they don't improve I see nothing there for my company mabe MAC]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[dayen@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:36:07 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[My solution?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If they don't like it, then they can stick with Windows 7, and use 8 as a more 'casual/home' OS.If they see that it's useful for business, good enough. (MS could even re-market Win7 as the 'Business' one) Mind you, I've seen many conservative businesses who still use XP, and one even still with Windows 2000.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Spannerz]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:29:42 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[SMB2.2]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'm definitely looking at the protocol enhancements of SMB2.2 and its more cluster-friendly nature. A bit esoteric, to be sure, but this could be important in my peta-scale data-intensive environment.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[cgaylord@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:44:32 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[For once, the corner office agrees with the support desk.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Well, except for that last fellow who thinks desktops are dead.  Maybe his organization has a much greater percentage of mobile users than mine.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:36:17 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Yes, Win 8 is still Vaporware]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[since it hasn't been officially released to manufacture. But on the other hand, how many significant changes have you seen in any MS products after this type of public beta or trial releases. If there is a SIGNIFICANT bug reported by MANY people, maybe that will be fixed. There may be a few more things they are working on, but basically, what you see is what you get. Any changes will be under the covers, not visible.I did install the consumer trial over the weekend. Based on my initial exposure I saw nothing impressive enough to encourage me to switch to it. The only good thing I can say is that I was able to install Office 2010 with only one issue that was easily resolved, and it appeared to work well.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron_007]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:57:33 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Errr....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Looking at Win 8 Coinsumer Preview. If this is what it loooks like, i think I'll pass. Can't turn off the Metro interface [you could with the Developer preview] but now it's disabled.A bit rediculous that log in is tied to a Windows Live ID account.After the first time booting up, I got to the opening screen and I waited for something to happen. Nothing did. I had to press Ctrl-Alt to see that login prompt [jeez. How ugly.]What's with the fish on the screen at boot up [or is it a bird smoking something]?I would assume on a domain that you will get a more &quot;normal&quot; login screen. as for the Metro part, I already dislike it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Gisabun]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:21:44 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Say it isn't so!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Gasp! CIOs aren't wow'd by a barely-even-beta release that Microsoft fully states, &quot;operating system still in beta, not finished and not ready for a consumer retail shelf&quot;...say it isn't so! How can this be? /sarcasm offPost poll results for something like this after it is at least in RC1 or something close to that. Seriously, how many of those CIOs do you honestly think even downloaded and installed W8 since its release 5 days ago...yeah that's what I thought. I bet the number is closer to 0 too.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[richard.wilson@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:00:11 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I don't see businesses replacing their desktops en masse]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[but for those business deciding whether or not to rollout tablets, Windows 8 is an attractive option for it's dual usage abilities.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Skruis]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:56:22 -0800</pubDate>
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