On 2015-11-27 8:27 PM, BOB KLAHN -> ALAN ZISMAN wrote:

 BK>   ...

 AZ>> Win 8 was the version that changed everything.... Win 10 is
 AZ>> an attempt by Microsoft to
 AZ>> recognize that Win 8 changed to many things too fast for a
 AZ>> user base that will take many years to transition to
 AZ>> touch-screen systems, while maintaining a sense that the
 AZ>> touch-screen user interface is the direction they want to
 AZ>> go in the long run.

 BK>   The direction MicroSoft want's to go, or the users? I suspect
 BK>   MS. They want to make the decisions and we have to live with it.

 BK>   In Business that can get very expensive.

'They want to go' in the quoted passage is referring to Microsoft.

It has been the case since the beginning of person computing - Microsoft has
made decisions and users - especially businesses - have dragged their feed
about upgrading.

If you were around in the late 1980s/early 1990s, Microsoft dragged its user
base into the graphical user interface era, at a time when users - business
users especially - had invested time and money into learning specialized
keyboard commands for Lotus 1-2-3 and Wordperfect.

(Remember keyboard number-row overlays with keyboard commands?)

It took at least a decade for that transition. Microsoft has shown it's able to
 plan for the long-term.

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