A serious question to Stardock......

Published on August 11, 2012 By BoXXi In Personal Computing

Are Stardock in a position to be able to create their own operating system? Is it financially viable? Would they ever consider it?

It would be great if someone like Stardock could give the public what they really want, which is an easy to use, attractive OS. I have no idea what it takes to create an OS, or what the pitfalls are regarding patent issues and taking on giants like Apple and Microsoft, but now would be the time to do it if it's possible. I know people will say that there is Linux etc, but I have tried those things and they always seem a little unprofessional to me. Stardock would do a much better job in my opinion.

So, is it possible?

Comments (Page 2)

benmanns

on Aug 11, 2012

DrJBHL

reply 12

Quoting starkers, reply 11that would be a welcome addition to desktop users should MS not relent on this Metro UI thing

Quoting Frogboy, reply 9Even Windows 8, minus "Metro" is pretty outstanding IMO.

But you're not going to be able to do that, are you..... or... are you?

"cough"---> llehscissalc <----- flip it that + a tweak and your completely living without the unnamed square thing...
If you cant live with it
good idea and topic btw

BoXXi

on Aug 11, 2012

Thanks for the reply Brad, I'll wait and see what you guys can do with Win8 before I switch to Macs........

starkers

on Aug 11, 2012

BoXXi

reply 17

Thanks for the reply Brad, I'll wait and see what you guys can do with Win8 before I switch to Macs....

Good thinking, Bry, it could save you quite a bit of money at the end of the day. If Stardock can enable booting directly to the desktop and restore the start button/menu in the final release of Win 8, it will be just like working in Win 7 only faster... 'cause underneath Metro there's a very similar and slick OS with a few advantages over its predecessor.

I'm here hoping and with fingers crossed.

doortech1

on Aug 11, 2012

Someone stick up for skinners by god! There is no end to attractive posted here daily by many in the skinning community. As for easy to use, what is wrong with seven that is not user friendly? Bottom line, people like change and new. So stardock has already accomplished the greatest idea yet, a software that tweaks to any individuals liking. Just a thought, if you do not know what goes into a skin, maybe some computer training is in order to make your computer os easier to use, just a thought. Happy with what I have, DoorTech1.

Gammit10

on Aug 11, 2012

1.) Design OS on paper

2.) Begin coding

3.) ???

4.) Profit!

Fuzzy Logic

on Aug 11, 2012

Windows 8 could be a huge benefit to Stardock. Many users are going to need additional programs to make W8 usable and no-one is better placed in the market than Stardock.

StevenAus22

on Aug 11, 2012

But isn't Microsoft's idea of W8 that they get 30% (or whatever) of all money made from any W8 programs?

Uvah

on Aug 12, 2012

When I tried to install Win8 it wouldn't...so after reading all the negative comments and seeing it almost in action I came to one conclusion. Label it as dirt and shove it under the rug for prosperity.

BoXXi

on Aug 12, 2012

Uvah, I think you mean Posterity.......

(It installed fast and flawlessly for me. Only good thing about it!)

DrJBHL

on Aug 12, 2012

Uvah

reply 23

Label it as dirt and shove it under the rug for prosperity.

BoXXi

reply 24

Uvah, I think you mean Posterity.......

(It installed fast and flawlessly for me. Only good thing about it!)

Actually.... if one invests the $40 at the current rate of returns, in 1,000 years he would have $41.

StevenAus22

on Aug 12, 2012

What is that in real income? <grin>

starkers

on Aug 12, 2012

StevenAus

reply 22

But isn't Microsoft's idea of W8 that they get 30% (or whatever) of all money made from any W8 programs?

And worse still, they're encouraging 3rd party app developers to write only for the "don't call it Metro" UI, meaning the legacy desktop will eventually become redundant and most probably phased out by MS in time for Win 9, 10 or 11, depending on how fast they can engineer the migration to "don't call it Metro"

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