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[LCGeek]

If you're worried about background processes interfering with gaming just get a game console. None of that bloat.

There are a lot more things I would have to give up so no, and your point doesn't apply to X1 which runs on win10 and has higher input lag/dpc latency pointing to its bloat problems as well as test have shown. No console will get you around this and considering I can't run nintendo or sony platforms at varying degree of mid to high end performance standards its impossible.

 

[whatsinaname]

Not with that attitude. Time to hire some SWAT teams armed with bootable thumb drives.

 

[Chittagong]

'Due to the focusing of our phone business'

what does that even mean? focusing = killing?

 

[TheCochese]

And end up as just another wannabe Android OEM. There is no path for mobile success left for MS.

There's plenty of success in this path. Giving up is the exact opposite play.

 

[GifGafIsTheBestGaf]

they should extend the free upgrade to XP/Vista users as well and without end date until Win11

 

[BeforeU]

counting phones in their 1billion projection was dumb as hell to begin with.

 

[jstripes]

counting phones in their 1billion projection was dumb as hell to begin with.

They spent so long as king of the desktop that it went to their heads. They assumed they could just roll into the mobile market, say "Hey everyone, did you miss us?", and be greeted with cheers and enthusiasm. Meanwhile, the reality was that no one really liked Windows, they just sort of used it on the desktop because they had to.

 

[Kthulhu]

They spent so long as king of the desktop that it went to their heads. They assumed they could just roll into the mobile market, say "Hey everyone, did you miss us?", and be greeted with cheers and enthusiasm. Meanwhile, the reality was that no one really liked Windows, they just sort of used it on the desktop because they had to.

I like windows

Spoiler

Only on desktop though

 

[Manmademan]

They spent so long as king of the desktop that it went to their heads. They assumed they could just roll into the mobile market, say "Hey everyone, did you miss us?", and be greeted with cheers and enthusiasm. Meanwhile, the reality was that no one really liked Windows, they just sort of used it on the desktop because they had to.

Windows has been more than fine since Windows 7.

The problem with Mobile isn't that Windows Mobile or Windows Phone or whatever wasn't a good OS- because by all accounts it was- it was simply too late to the party, and most users were already locked into an ecosystem.

The Iphone and iOS was an 800 pound gorilla by the time Android launched- and the only reason Android was even competitive with it was that Apple locked itself into an insane exclusivity arrangement with AT&T for years, allowing Verizon (and to a lesser extent Sprint and Tmobile) to push their product FOR them.

By the time Windows Phone got off the ground both of those two had long been established and it takes either spectacular hardware or an amazing ad campaign to get people to drop an ecosystem they're already deeply invested in.

It was simply too late, no matter how good the product was.

edit: and yes I'm aware there was a windows mobile available prior to this (I have an HTC 6700 from like 10 years ago that runs it) but it wasn't marketed to or designed for the casual iphone crowd at ALL.

 

[TheSeks]

They spent so long as king of the desktop that it went to their heads. They assumed they could just roll into the mobile market, say "Hey everyone, did you miss us?", and be greeted with cheers and enthusiasm. Meanwhile, the reality was that no one really liked Windows, they just sort of used it on the desktop because they had to.

Eh, I don't think it was because of Windows per se. But more due to them being late to the phone party. They had that weird transitional phase of the older smart-phones and the newer ones and they had like Windows 9X looking UI's when the iPhone was coming out. It's the same reason most people passed on Blackberries after iPhone and Android came out with more streamlined UI's and functions.

 

[LordRaptor]

the only reason Android was even competitive with it was that Apple locked itself into an insane exclusivity arrangement with AT&T

That just isn't true at all, even ignoring how US-centric such a statement is