Barnes & Noble Exposes Microsoft's "Trivial" Patents and Strategy Against Android

[barshmelos]

[QUOTE=The Baconator;33302540]It's sad that MS has to do this to stay relevant, in a world obsessed with tablets and smartphones which they have no real stake in, MS is becoming less relevant, and as soon as Windows is only for enthusiasts and high end workstations, they are gonna have some big financial issues.[/QUOTE]

Just watch as Windows 8 takes over the tablet market in a matter of years.

[Jookia]

[QUOTE=Panda X;33308660]You can just enable it again. There are many other reasons to go 8.[/QUOTE]

Correct me if I'm wrong but you can't enable it again unless you use shitty registry hacks and sacrifice the Metro GUI and applications that work in, which defeats the purpose of Windows 8.

[PvtCupcakes]

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;33302856]Yeah, I mean, like, no one ever uses a Microsoft OS anymore.[/QUOTE]

Just because people use Windows now, that doesn't mean they will in the future.
Smartphones and Tablets could potentially replace a large segment of the PC market.

Even with tablets of today, they could replace the PCs of people who really only browse the web and check their email. If people grow accustomed to using Android or iOS devices, they will no longer rely on Windows.
The only thing keeping Windows relevant is "program X only works on Windows". If they lose that, then there is no reason to continue using Windows.

[Boozy&Bitter]

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;33302856]Yeah, I mean, like, no one ever uses a Microsoft OS anymore.[/QUOTE]

I've migrated to Google Docs. Document sharing is a fantastic feature and it's hilarious with friends.

[Political Gamer]

[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;33309592]Even with tablets of today, they could replace the PCs of people who really only browse the web and check their email. If people grow accustomed to using Android or iOS devices, they will no longer rely on Windows.[/QUOTE]I stopped using Outlook and instead use iOS's built-in email or gmail when I can't reach my iPad. I never even touched anything outside of mail in outlook so I didn't loose anything but I did gain a lot of portability and convenience.

[Niteshifter]

Looks like MS's greed and inability to secure a NDA screwed themselves over.

[Peachy]

Software patents shouldn't exist ever, period.

[Panda X]

[QUOTE=Jookia;33309127]Correct me if I'm wrong but you can't enable it again unless you use shitty registry hacks and sacrifice the Metro GUI and applications that work in, which defeats the purpose of Windows 8.[/QUOTE]

In the developer preview it's like that because the group policy is broken so people have to convert the dev preview to a build will all features disabled instead of just the one they want (which is what disabling the redpill registry key does, disables anything new). But it's there. In later builds it works.