And if they are happy with their mobile phone..... why bother buying a PC at all? You dont use your car the way you use your computer... and so why should I use my computer like a phone?

Believe in Mircosofts marketing all you want.... a mobile phone GUI on a desktop operating system is downright stupid.

As far leaving behind.... this is such a PATHETIC argument.... we speak about an OS here.... not some treck in the wild west. And there is very little consequence in avoiding Win 8 all together. In fact, bad sales may make MS revert back to common sense.

It is clear to me that you have not the slighest idea in the world how economy works....

The CUSTOMER.... and NOT THE COMPANY chooses what is done.... and what product is the future. 

So, if Microsoft uses your "Heavier handed measures" it may soon find out that the customer is capable of much more severe measures. And unlike Microsoft the customer can do this as long as he wants.

Actually, with the current quite unimpressive scale of sales, there is a descent change that support for Windows 7 is extended even further.

You are dearly mistaken, to believe that Microsoft can force something onto people and companies that said people and companies dont want. Welcome to the free market. If your product sucks, you improve it... or leave the market.

Which might not be too bad after all.... I dont think anyone would miss Microsoft..... besides.... even a market share drop down to 30 % would wo wonders to the OS market..... and would place them to the place where they belong.

I dont see companies moving to Windows 8 any time soon.... as for them... there is no advantage..... only cost and high loss of productivity until people learn to use the retarded GUI. Similar to most end users.

You wouldn't be able to run it. OSX is coded to only run on Apple hardware. There is a way to run OSX on non-Apple hardware but it involves hacks and runarounds to do so.

I read in a magazine that if your hardware is reasonably modern and your specs are decent, OS-X will run on a regular PC with a Bootcamp type program.  It was a while ago now and I'll have to look up the article again, but it said that the program performs all the necessary actions to run OS-X on a PC.

Bootcamp is a program that allows Windows 7 to run an Apple hardware, not the other way around.

You can use Multibeast to run it... http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/02/multibeast-ultimate-post-installation.html

But why would you be interested in such issues Starkers? You will be using whatever Microsoft creates and you will be praying that they cut off all support to us knuckle dragging bitter clingers who refuse to adapt.

A bootcamp -TYPE program.  I didn't know the name of it at the time, but Anthony R named it...  it's called Multibeast.

Why shouldn't I be interested?  It's an OS I'd like to try out... just to see what all the fanbois are crowing about.  And yes, I'll use whatever MS puts out if it suits my needs... and frankly, I don't care if they cut off support for previous OSes or not.  I'm happy with Win 8 so it's no skin off my nose one way or the other.

EDIT:

Can't do it with Multibeast anyway... it requires an Intel Core processor, and mine is AMD.  So I'll have to hunt down that article after all.  In it was a way to do the same on an AMD based PC, using a similar program.

starkers, I remember seeing an article in pc user about 2 to 3  years ago to run osX on intel core 2 duo gigabyte g41 mobo, but do not remember ANY mention of AMD cpu's/mobo's.

hope the hints help

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I don't even remember which magazine it was in, so I'm going to have to rummage through a swag of 'em until I come across it, but I seem to recall it was about OS-X and AMD's higher end CPU's.  I was running an AMD Phenom II x6 1100T at the time and recall thinking; "Ooo, I can do that."

If not, I saw some Core i5's going for reasonable sums just recently, so maybe my first Intel build in years will be inspired by this idea of running OS-X on something other than a Mac,  I'd only need to get the CPU and mobo cos I could poach enough parts from here and there to build an i5 rig.

There's a whole list of hardware that is supported and a how to guide for all. http://www.hackintosh.com/

I haven't done it yet cause I haven't gotten my OS X yet. I'm holding off cause my dad is a Mac zealot and has them laying around, so I can just get one from him when I visit him out west.