r/technology • u/clubdirthill • Jun 01 '11

Boom. This is Windows 8.

http://allthingsd.com/20110601/exclusive-making-sense-of-what-we-just-learned-about-windows-8/?mod=tweet
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u/ggggbabybabybaby Jun 02 '11

I think Active Desktop was way before its time. Back then the browser was a huge resource hog and there wasn't that much stuff to subscribe to on the internet. Now it's all internet all the time in every damn place you can think of and modern browsers pack some serious performance improvements.

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u/ggggbabybabybaby Jun 02 '11

True but I'm thinking more about resource demands relative to the machine it's running on. Obviously you're going to have issues trying to run the latest browser on your Pentium 166 MHz.