Recently, the Microsoft blog listed the time when Windows versions stopped supporting:
Windows XP is April 8, 2014 Windows Vista is April 11, 2017 Windows 7 is January 14, 2020
The life of each Windows is roughly 11 years. Just by 2020, is there still a desktop operating system in the traditional sense?
Microsoft's February 29 release Windows 8 Consumer Preview at the Mobile World Congress will be held in Barcelona, this time for Windows 8 Consumer Preview version is also spared no effort, the new Metro page more It is to fully bring the excellent performance of the Windows Phone 7 mobile platform to the desktop.
Let's take a look at Windows 8, Windows 8 amazing boot speed can be described as spikes, the fastest boot speed has reached 6 seconds, which is equivalent to about 7 times of Windows xp, equivalent to Windows 7 5 Times. Because it is a developer preview version, there may be a possibility that the system may be incomplete and the boot speed may be accelerated. In the upcoming Windows 8 consumer preview version, if Windows 8 continues to maintain boot speed within 10 seconds, it is bound to increase user confidence.
On Windows 8, you will experience Office 15, in fact, Office 15 is Office 2012, in the upcoming ARM version of Windows 8, you will have the opportunity to experience a more complete operation page, whether in traditional Windows The page is still in the ARM version of Windows 8, you will have the opportunity to experience different office components.
Microsoft pays more attention to the future design of the operating system to improve the mobile terminal. This is the opposite of Apple's tendency to port the entire mobile terminal to the operating system. The difference in strategy makes each other's focus on product launch. There will be different distinctions. Foreign media published an article saying that traditional desktop computers such as Apple Mac are no longer suitable for managing today's massive information, so they will soon be eliminated, and replaced by mobile devices using touch screens. Apple released a developer preview of the next-generation desktop operating system OS X Mountain Lion on Thursday. It is worth noting that the previous "Mac OS X" has become "OS X", "Mac"" no longer exists. .
The current fact is also true, Apple is turning to an application-centric user experience model, as is Microsoft, and the Windows 8 Metro interface is the best proof. Metro will replace Windows, just as iOS will replace OS X. This shift has already begun when Apple realizes that the iPhone's success is overwhelming. Users also like this new way of computing, just touch the screen to operate. The iPad further reinforces this trend. It is not just a content consumption platform, it has entered the enterprise market and is engaged in various forms of content creation.
The user experience of Windows 8 and OSX may be different, but it is important that Finder (OS X Explorer) and Explorer (Windows Explorer) are being phased out, that is, desktop computers will gradually come out of people's sight .
Maybe some people are worried about this change, they will say "I want to manage my files", "Professionals will not use these new interfaces" and so on, but the fact is: they Not realizing that the world has changed. As we are still discussing how good the sound quality of the CD is, the format of the MP3 cannot be overtaken anyway, and the CD has been eliminated. The elimination of desktop computing is the last step in getting rid of the old information management model. This is a welcome get rid of because it is not an ideal way to manage massive amounts of information.
Microsoft relies on the powerful market appeal of Windows XP and Windows 7 to effectively occupy a larger market share, and Apple will use the iPhone as a chip to make the Mac a favorable position, we can only wait and see, it looks like this operation The system war has just begun.
Whether it is Microsoft or Apple, as the two major desktop operating systems of today's mainstream, in this upgrade, we have seen their improvement and improvement on the original basis. But after 8 years, the desktop will look like what, no one can say. Just as before the advent of the iPhone, our mobile phones with physical buttons would be just as enjoyable. Don't forget that when the door to the touch world is no longer obscured, the moment that was suddenly pushed away by Joe is only five years ago. The world has changed, and our information world is changing, let alone the desktop operating system.