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I can't believe the Aero interface won't be an option - Does anyone really believe Microsoft has forgotten where their corporate bread is buttered?

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Why on Earth would corporations care if they get the Aero interface? There are a lot of reasons for corporations to choose (or choose not) to upgrade to Windows 8, but lack of the glass effect on the desktop is a purely aesthetic change. It doesn't affect the function of the UI, and it hardly seems like this is something corporations would even factor into their decision.

After chrome.exe and eclipse, the most memory consuming app on my Task Manager's process list is DWM. I think i can give up on some effects to gain more memory.

I don't think you will save much memory unless Microsoft is also removing desktop composition. When I turn off transparency in Win7, the amount of memory used by DWM.exe does not change.

Transparency is one of the features of DWM. If you want to get rid of DWM, you have to select Windows Classic theme.

And you could have been doing that all along simply by changing your theme.

Corporate aren't going to buy this. Just like bad star trek movies, corporate users only buy every other edition.

Right now MSFT is trying to get corporate to switch from XP->Win7 in 3-5 years they will be looking to move Win7->Win9

We agree that corporations aren't going to buy this ... but they'll also worry that Windows 9 will be patterned more after Windows 8 than 7/XP.

There used to be corporations that were in the opposite release cycle, but Vista effectively killed that for Microsoft.

There are probably smart people in MSFT who hope that there won't be a Windows9 desktop.

If MSFT can get everyone at home AND at work onto their services, running Office on their cloud and with all your line of business apps running on their servers.

Charging customers $100/month/user for SaaS certainly beats selling them a new $100 cdrom every 5years

> Charging customers $100/month/user for SaaS certainly beats selling them a new $100 cdrom every 5years

These numbers don't make a bit of sense. The most expensive Office 365 plan (excluding the ones that include desktop Office) is $14/user/month. And a license for desktop Office costs a whole lot more than $100.

They will make sense on somebody's Powerpoint !

There was a story on here about MSFT moving the FAA users to the cloud which worked out at $71/user - and currently nobody 'pays' for for Office ;-)

With everyone now having a PC and less reason to upgrade to a new OS every 2years - the only way for MSFT to keep up revenue growth is to start charging for biz and home users for continual service stuff.

You misunderstood. I wasn't saying that these numbers don't make sense to businesses. I'm saying that the numbers you provided are completely wrong. There is no $100/user/mo option for Office 365 and a desktop Office license costs a lot more than $100.

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