Microsoft Plans to Merge Windows and Windows Phone Discussion

[Grant Hatchimonji]

Bill Gates says that Microsoft plans to eventually merge all of its operating systems, including Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, under a single platform. Our sister site Tablet PC Review has all the details.

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[Mitlov]

Merging Windows Phone and Windows RT? Good idea. Merging everything from smartphones to gaming desktops into one single OS? Not so good. Just my opinion.

[weegie]

Of course they are, it's called monetizing and walling of their desktop products, will be interesting to see how well segments of users accept this philosophy considering it is diametrically opposed to what made windows soo popular overall, they tried making winmo a lot like a desktop OS and that didn't work [although I personally really liked it] , now they're going to make desktops like phones, with the push for touch interfaces, touch screens on notebooks/monitors, it will be interesting to see how repetitive strain injury stats hold up with people using touch interfaces in a vertical orientation.

[LandSurveyor]

I think the increased power and storage available to modern mobile devices will make this possible. In the past, trying to turn WM into a full OS was overreaching. Gotta hand it to them that they keep trying.

I also liked the old WM. The only one I didn't like was 6.5. I would have been a lot happier with that Imagio if I could have wiped off HTC's special sauce and made 6.5 look more like 6.2.

[Drillbit]

Spending too much time and resources trying to integrate means less time and resources to innovate. Yes, integration and innovation can be opposing forces. They should just spend more time and resources fixing bugs and improving on both before trying to merge them together.

Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201 using Tapatalk 2

[weegie]

I think the increased power and storage available to modern mobile devices will make this possible. In the past, trying to turn WM into a full OS was overreaching. Gotta hand it to them that they keep trying.

I also liked the old WM. The only one I didn't like was 6.5. I would have been a lot happier with that Imagio if I could have wiped off HTC's special sauce and made 6.5 look more like 6.2.

As long as making mobiles as functional as a desktop is what the objective is, I seriously doubt it though, more likely it's a move to turn a modular, configurable, proper operating system into a money making platform via app store and content, dumbed down to a level where it IS as delivered.......with Microsoft dictating basically everything.
Ten years of notebooks or so and they still don't match a desktops grunt, and at a level they do match desktops cost probably 6 times more, smaller form factors like smartphones and tablets that have much higher expectations as far as battery life are going to have an even harder job running requirement heavy software, they are passively cooled which further neuters their ability to have anything remotely like real processing power.......so you either dumb down desktop OS's to run on neutered hardware or you optimize OS's versions for the form factors hardware, personally I think having one piece of OS software is like hammering a square peg into a round hole.

With your Imagio, can't you turn off TF3D and the 6.5 start screen in the settings>today? the 6.5 devices I have can use the original today screen which is what I prefer as it lists calendar events without digging anywhere

[LandSurveyor]

Much better, thanks. I really didn't spend much time with this phone like I did a lot of my old devices.