Why So Angry?

I was reading some tweets and Facebook posts, and then I saw this tweet by Paul Thurrott:

Haters come crawling out of the woodwork when they feel threatened. I find it both funny and sad.

There are a lot of Apple fans out there who really want Windows 8 to fail.  They are taking every opportunity to criticise something they’ve only seen on a webcast, or maybe only seen screenshots of.  I’m too jetlagged to bother much with them.

I’m a big Windows nerd.  But I’m not even 100% convinced that it’s right – yet.  I’ll find out in about 1 hour when I try the developer preview build for the first time. 

The way I see it, Microsoft are making the right moves.  A touch first GUI has been needed for a year.  Windows 8 does what the iPad does, but it does more.  And if the last 12 months has taught us anything, Office is uber important.  It sells sells sells.  And business are buying it because of features that are being used.  Windows 8, “Office 15”, and “SharePoint 15” all share a dev platform in Javascript and HTML5.  I know that business software developers will love that.  They sure liked it in the auditorium.  Having a common platform like that just makes business app integration so much easier.

Anyway, we haven’t even seen the business side of Windows 8 yet, and we have yet to see the Server stuff.  I’ll be focusing on Hyper-V and private cloud sessions.  There’s so much IT Pro content, I reckon I’ll be watching some on video on the flight home.