I think Windows 8 is great. I don’t get all the whiners.
Every version of Windows has had whiners. They usually become the people that then love it and whine about how the next version is awful and the one they hated was perfect.
I for one have really been enjoying 8.1. Whenever I use 7 now, It feels like I’m using a relic. Even the look of desktop icons is irritating.
I have been running 8 since pre-release. The family uses it daily on desktops and laptops. It is just fine. I am not a huge fan of metro, but that is just fine too.
It works for me, as well, with a noticeably faster start up. I mainly run it from the “desktop tile”. Not perfect, but not a dog.
I really like Win 8 also. Every Windows articles unleashes the Pavlovian responses about how terrible all things MS, and Win 8 in particular, are.
RE: I think Windows 8 is great. I don’t get all the whiners.
1) They want the START button back to launch the programs they’re familiar with. Well, Windows 8.1 does just that.
2) They don’t want to learn a new user interface, having been so familiar with the old interface, which they’ve been using for over a decade.
“I think Windows 8 is great. I don’t get all the whiners” I agree completely.
The general consumer wouldn’t see the real problems with Win8: those are coming up in the workplace and are exasperated by nonsense Microsoft has thrown into other products.
They’ve tossed a ton of SMB IT staffs under the bus. You wouldn’t believe how infuriating it is to pay tens of thousands of dollars for “Software Assurance” licensing, only to have MS kick the training back 10 years. Now, instead of a few regulars calling about having forgotten a password every week or two, training and procedure docs have to be re-written, then classes have to be conducted and then we’re looking at 6 months of tapering-off questions and complaints.
Which is sort of fine if you don’t have any Access Data Projects in your domain AND YOU WERE TOLD A COUPLE YEARS AGO TO GET READY FOR THE CHANGE but, ADPs with SQL Server was a SMB best practice for almost 10 years: and MS yanked that data provider from Office 2013. It’s going to cost a minimum of $100,000 to fix that problem at my work. And you can’t wait around because copies of 2010 are getting snapped up all over by the suckers in the same boat as you.
With the economy the way it is, 25 million dollar companies can’t afford to get hit with unnecessary $100,000 IT expenses. Especially if there’s zero gain.
And there’s a lot more...like, this whole situation gets worse when looking at what MS wants to do with Server: or, what they don’t want to do....”work”. They’re grooming everyone for making a Core/PowerShell install of Server, the Best Practice and that means a living hell for SMB IT.
MS’s belief that overworked IT staffs aren’t going to have a problem admining a modern network via a “DOS” prompt, is insane at face value. There were what, 100 DOS commands in 6.22? MS just passed 500 PowerShell commands and applets/scripts.
Who has time to memorize that crap? And the only time you’re really going to need it is the worst time to have anything other than expertise in it: servers are down. So you’ll be sitting in a server-room, hunting through tech forums, on your cell phone (because those a-holes at MS don’t bother with help files, anymore), looking for a script someone said fixed a problem like yours, while the entire company is breathing down your neck.
Is that not enough reason for a little whining? If not, here’s some icing on the Eight Cake. it’s a scam. It’s Windows 7 with some functionality removed to speed it up, a Service Pack installed AND an alpha release of about a third of Windows 9 shoved in there: that’s Metro.
MS is getting their ass beaten by Apple and Google in the “App” marketplace and they have no product capable of producing the demand they need to catch up. Metro is their attempt to force that demand. There was no business reason, at all, to remove the Start Menu: zero. They didn’t even pull it until right before the RTM release of 8.
Touchscreens? No. Who’s dumb enough to deploy touchscreens anywhere other than tablets, laptops, POS/Retail outlets and kiosks? The ergonomic damage to the wrists 40+ hours a week can do is nothing compared to the suits that would start floating in over repetitive stress to the shoulder, neck and back, caused by the average office worker having a touchscreen
MS had to have known that: they aren’t pushing businesses to “go touch”. They were only concerned with forcing customers into the their App Store, and the only way they could do that was by removing the Start Menu: you don’t have to go into Metro if you have a Start Menu.
Oh...sorry. I didn’t mean to go off. I’m pretty pissed right now....lol
Anyway, the correct way to have pulled the Start Menu would have been to make it optional for Windows 8 and mandatory for Windows 9.