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Consumer concerns on WindowsForum.com focus on Microsoft's hardware ambitions and the impact on traditional PC users. Threads discuss fears that Microsoft may follow Apple's integrated model, potentially ending Windows licensing to OEMs and limiting the ability to build custom desktops. Users also express frustration with changes in Windows software, such as Windows Mail and Contacts, which they feel prioritize unnecessary updates over reliable functionality. These discussions highlight anxiety about reduced consumer choice and forced upgrades that create compatibility issues, particularly for users who rely on specific hardware or software syncing, like with iPhones. The tag captures worries about Microsoft's direction and its effect on paying customers.
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Windows 8 End users, OEMs, Windows 8 and Microsoft following Apple's business model!
As you may know that Microsoft is making its own "Surface" tablet as well as its own smartphone. And it seems their intention is to make everything like notebooks, desktops, ultrabooks themselves, just like Apple does and this has already created tension between MS and the OEMs. May be MS...- icet
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- alternatives apple business models consumer concerns desktop end users freedom hardware market impact microsoft microsoft licensing oem pc build pricing smartphone surface tablet technology tensions windows 8
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 If it's not broke don't fix it
Who in the Microsoft organisation is actually working for Apple, Each operating system that comes on line they take software that works really well and fix it to give us PAYING consumers headaches. Why have they done this with Windows Mail/Contacts in Vista now Windows Live in 7. Windows Mail...- rogric
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- apple consumer concerns contacts feedback iphone microsoft software issues sync technology update user experience windows windows 7 windows live windows mail windows vista
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- Forum: Windows Software