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To: prisoner6

I don’t claim Windows 8 sucks because its not Apple or Linux, in fact, most of the folks rejecting Win 8 are people who have used windows their entire lives... what a foolish thing to say that those reject it are just apple and linux fanboys.

Windows 8 is an unmitigated disaster, and that is the consensus of the market, which is made up mostly of folks who have never touched a linux or apple PC... they are people who have for the most part have only worked with Windows, at least since Windows 3.1 came on the scene.

Windows 8 sucks pure and simply because its a bastard product looking for a reason to exist. Metro is a horrible interface for a PC.. its a reasonable touch interface, but an abysmal failure for a PC... and to force your PC owners into this idiot paradigm because you once again misread the market was beyond idiotic.

Now to compound the failure of shoving Metro (ZUNE) onto the desktop, lets make it the default interface, which they did with 8.0 which made it beyond insane. 8.1 undid enough to at least make it passable but the damage has been done.

In fact the only people I have found who go out of their way to defend Windows 8, are either folks on the MS Payroll, or MS fanboys, and yep, they do exist believe it or not.

Metro just needs gone from the desktop, it has no place there.. and telling folks they should just shut up and take it is the attitude of a rapist not a successful business model.


70 posted on 10/03/2014 7:43:29 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay

Exactly. I haven’t tried Apple since the early 90s (may revisit that soon), but I didn’t like their interface then. Found it very unintuitive. So up till now at least, I’ve been a Windows guy, and I’m here to tell ya, W8 blows. Severely. Tons of stuff that was easy in 7 is not just nonintuitive, but objectively more work to get done in 8. Braaaap on this one, Microshaft! Please play again!


72 posted on 10/03/2014 9:32:28 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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