Look here, seems like I'm not the only one:
" The real problem is that it is both unusable and annoying. It makes your teeth itch as you keep asking, Why are they doing this!?
" No business will tolerate this software, let me assure you. As a productivity tool, it is unusable."
" This is a problem for Microsoft investors. The potential for this OS to be an unrecoverable disaster for the company is at the highest possible level Ive ever seen. It ranks up there with the potential for disaster that the Itanium chip presented for Intel Corp. Its that bad."
" The public and enterprise users are going to demand Windows 7 throughout 2013 and until Microsoft gives up on this soulless Metro interface and gets a new design team, fast."
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I thought the metro UI is designed for the future for those who can't even learn two different interfaces. The very same people who treat their pc as smartphones
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davepermen Notebook Nobel Laureate
still there, not being able to understand win8, prix, and thus making "your point" showing you don't understand it?
fun. i left for so long, and you have not learned anything. in the meantime, i continue to enjoy win8 and understand it, and laugh about all of those points.
and i'll leave again for half a year, or so, thanks to annoying haters who can't move on and LEARN TO UNDERSTAND NEW STUFF.
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And Dave, some also said the same about windows ME.
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I have to agree the public and business users will want to keep Windows 7 for quite some time. Will M$ alow this on new systems, doubtfull. They will force us to get the new OS. This is why I contemplate real soon upgrading so that I'll have another system that will last for four years or so.
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What's MS excuse for forcing this on desktop, non-touch users? Why won't they allow any options? (Spare me the sarcasms and jokes.
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Sure, MS want to have similar looks across the operating systems, but is it worth all these unsatisfied customers and lowered sales?
Honestly I don't understand this, it will only lead to lowered sales now, even if everybody uses in 2015.
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There's one person here who loves to mock everyone who doesn't accept changes instantly.
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It's not about accepting changes. Just because it's new doesn't mean it's good... or better. Just that it's different. Not offering the option, which they can easily do, is just pure idiocy by Microsoft.
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I wouldn't use Windows 8 even if they paid me a 1000 US dollars!
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Can wait for the Microsoft Mojave Commercials.
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I thought that Metro nonsense was only for tablets?
I read a post they're getting rid of Aero which led me to believe it's going to be like Windows 7, just not shiny.
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Is there any way to disable it? Or am I stuck with text in dark boxes.
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Microsoft lost their damn minds in that case.
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Run with Aero on and off and check your battery life. It won't budge a bit. I've tried. Aero uses little resources especially now with GPU integrated with CPU, it's always active.
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I guess Microsoft has been using Intel's tick-tock schedule, except instead of tick-tock, it's good-crap.
98 (good) - ME (crap) - XP (good) - Vista (crap, relatively) - 7 (good) - 8 (crap)
In addition to being less than thrilled with Metro, the use of the ribbon on every single window in explorer is ridiculous. It works nicely for office but it's so overkill for file browsing that it's actually sort of comical. -
killkenny1 Too weird to live, too rare to die.
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I've run Aero on a Wind U100, one of the first 10 inch netbooks. (gma 950 graphics)
If a netbook can run Aero (and run it well) then I'm not quite believing the battery life thing...sorry MS
As for Dvorak, I respect him as a journalist and industry veteran but he alluded to the same thing with a column on mice ages ago. Now near no one would even think about using a computer without one. -
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Again, we will see over time. The problem may lie in if no one at first upgrades their PC's other than tablets because of Win8 being forced down their throats and Apple even holds onto their current sales the proportion of sales could fall over to Apple. Again my argments are trying to stay on topic as this is a market person evaluating what M$ is doing here.
If people hold off on upgrading it could cause a glut of systems and parts making them cheap but cutting profit margins to the point it could close up some shops and even severly hurt manufacturers/OEM's/System builders etc. This again is bad for the market, that is the stock market and eventually the end consumers.
I really hope I am wrong, way wrong, as wrong as some one could ever possibly be! If I am even slightly correct about the possible, and I must state again POSSIBLE, issues it could be a very bumpy road ahead for the PC............. -
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, W7 will still be floating around. And W8 aka ME will produce a working W9 that would be more then suffice to fix their debacle...again....
But back to the topic of W8 I definitely think until they dump metro or make two different interface one for Desktop and laptop and one just for touch screen unit phone and touchscreen interface they will face stiff challenge to even get people to use it. -
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There are CONCEPTS of mobile OS design that might be well adapted to desktop use. That doesn't mean that essentially copy pasting the design to the desktop arena is the way to go. Tiles could have been incorporated into the desktop, or as an Expose-like overlay, but the use of the Metro screen to replace the start menu is just a step back. -
I agree with hockeymass. Smartphones and tablets are not designed for ease of input, period. The Metro UI is like the iPhone and iPod and iPad for consuming media. Trying to do anything productive and efficiently on those devices is nothing short of frustration to the point of wanting to whip the thing against a wall.
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John Dvorak on Win8
Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Pirx, Jun 1, 2012.