New PC? No thank you
I have a, mostly, 10yo home-assembled PC. (confession)
I bought it to play games, surf the 'net, do home office work and tinker with.
Reasons as a home user not to buy a new PC:
- There are no current PC games that whet my appitite and a upgraded OS would have a high risk of making the games I do have unusable.
- My current PC is still capable of office & internet tasks.
- My current PC also has a clear divide between local storage & the cloud.
- Vista may not be the best OS, but it does alow multiple windows to be opened and operayed on the screen at the same time. It also has a logical hyrarcical file system, no single screen with a tiled view of everything.
- I can use it to move or stream files between multiple platforms without the files leaving the local network or lock-in "compatibility" issues.
- Win8 & Office360 have to many "value add" features which asks for a subscription, free for the first x, which undermines any trust that you won't be paying extra later on.
- I find Chrome OS creepy, lacking in user control & impractical (see above).
I'm hoping Linux will save the PC, but it needs a single mass appeal & robust OS to do so.
This starts with vendors supplying an industry wide & agreed upon "standard" OS as a Win8 replacement.
As it stands, Win8 is going to kill the PC market.