Hi! Bud (Joma's father-in-law), My name is Paul Wong, please feel free to call me, "Paul". You're welcome to visit China one day! Regarding to the prospect of Windows, I don't think any OS can compete with it especially in workstation & server market at this moment! I just afraid that she seems already fail in mobile, pad & tablet market. If she cannot grasp her UltraNetBook, Notebook market, she will get lost further. One day, she will lose her laptop, desktop and even server market! The key turning point & most important battle is : iPhone5 vs Galaxy SIII-2nd vs Asus's Panphone vs cWinsPhone8Pro; The New iPad vs Asus's Panphone vs cWins8Pro; MacServerOS vs ChromeOS vs cWinsServer8. However, if cWinsPhone7.5 cannot upgrade to cWinsPhone8Pro, she will lose another followers. Indeed, I love Windows so much but I may need to change it to an all-in-one OS and which should be highly used in enterprise market with lowest cost. :laugh: Yours truly, Paul

Yes, you're right. I'm just a Chinese guy in using my poor English to talk with you. How about you? Nevertheless, nice to get your response till to now! Wish you all the best :)

Oh, please feel free to let me know which point you seem not understand. What's a pity is I can't attach a flowchart here for Wins series' development from Dos up to the coming Wins8 & WinsServer8, from WinsCE, WinsMobile5 till to the new black horse "WinsPhone7.5" or the coming WinsPhone8 or WinsPhone8Pro. However, at least three points I can state clear here: You know, Tablet is initiated by Microsoft through her Eng Version of WinsXpPro(Tablet with Touchscreen); even in Wins98, Fujitsu had already produced a 12.1" notebook with Touchscreen. However, present winner is iPad instead of WinsPad even Acer W501 was produced as a computer and eventually pushed to the market far before The New iPad but such 3rd version of iPad is user friendly more easier to use than Wins7 as Wins7 has its own historical (mouse oriented operation) limitation's background! The second point is: Microsoft had run so fast & frontier to the market but she had not fine tuned her WinsMobile6.5 which was also limited by her thinking or creative. She always create thing with complicated, slowly and need us to chase something like Intel's hardware again & again! If not complicated, IT has no value to learn, then Microsoft can't issue renewable licenses or certificates again and again & hardware is not worth to upgrade & upgrade at all! However, think about iPhone's previous success. What's a pity is iPhone is so monopoly versus Android is so opened to consumers' orientation. Yes, WinsPhone maybe the black horse one day as which stands between them. Both benefits from programmers & consumers can gain from it. However, she maybe so late to enter into market and WinsPhone7.5 is not stable at this moment! Unless she can win Galaxy SIII, SIV, Asus Panphone Transformer (Mixture & Separator of Phone+Pad), iPhone5 by her WinsPhone8/8Pro. Otherwise she will totally lose her phone's market! As Android is already the king of mobile and she may win iPad also (through her Android4 / ChromeOS ) in the coming Pad/Tablet or even PC's market. Cloud server may not be safe for human eventually and OS with Application Software may still be mainly controlled back by enterprises & personal users for avoiding to depend on broadband furthermore (save broadband cost, being internet controlled & upgradable software's costs & confidential information)! Third point is : Apple seems to forgo her X-Server's series from MacBookPro's server version. She uses iPhone to iPad to MacAir to MacBook to MacBookPro to MacServer to keep fat by herself just starting f

I've bought ChiWinsXpPro & ChiWins7Ultimate before and so familiarized with Microsoft's strategy from Dos to Wins3.1x, from Wins95 to WinsMe, from WinsXp to Wins7, from WinsNT3.51, WinsNT4, Wins2000, WinsServer2003, WinsServer2008 to WinsServer8. Can't you see that she always use an intercept strategy to maintain her market's competitive and only one time to integrate her workstation & server market, that is Wins2000?! Afterwards, she separate these two versions again and even break down into small, a little bit of differentiated versions. Besides, she always had breakthrough from starting a new version such as Wins95, WinsXp, WinsNT3.51, WinsServer2003 and made those unstable versions in those middle stages' such as Wins98, WinsVista, WinsNT4, WinsServer2008 and use the third version as her stage of tick-tick-tock's tock version such as WinsMe, Wins7...the coming WinsServer8 version and such WinsServer8 will be come from the core of Wins7 while WinsServer2008 was come from her WinsVista's core! What's new in Windows8 we can see?! Do we unable to download all free of charge software or something small software like metro apps into Wins7 series platform? Does Wins8 can overcome iPad? Does WinsPhone7.5/8 can overcome Android4/iPhone5? Will Microsoft integrate WinsPhone8Pro with Wins8 just like the coming Asus's Panphone (Transformer)? Will Microsoft even integrate WinsPhone8+Wins8+WinsServer8 into one OS which can be names as something like Wins8ServerPhone...? Why acting as an enterprise or personal user should upgrade & upgrade? Where was Bill Gate's promise as he has stated that Blackcomp (Wins7) is the final version and no further version will be issued after it, especially after a normal product cycle(So short period then comes a Wins8)? Is it final version & having great different from Wins7? Why don't we wait for Wins8Me and buy it at that time? One point that Microsoft will integrate Workstation & Server markets that is when she can't sell well in both items. Otherwise, she will use Workstation's rising development atmosphere to save bad selling in Server market or vice versa! Hopefully that, we can see Wins2000 Second again. However, up to this century, Wins2000 Second should combine with Mobile's OS just like Asus's Panphone whatever it should be performed as a portable server or not since make a life simple to serve one OS enough! Are you tired to chase, adapt & use different, new software in different OS or platforms? How can we create identical Apps to different Android4's mobiles even though we can have