Posted on 05/22/2012 8:18:52 AM PDT by illiac
Summary: Windows 8 has already had too many hands in the mix and spoons in the pot. Microsoft wanted different and its staff all thought different. Instead of reaching compromise, Microsoft put everything in to please everyone but will likely please very few.
Microsoft has only a few months before it releases Windows 8, probably in or around October in time for Christmas holiday sales.
The company knows full well how risky the new design, the user interface, and the decisions it has made will be controversial. In a recent blog post, Windows president Steven Sinofsky opened by explaining the context in which Windows 8 will fall in to.
Microsoft wanted Windows 8 to be different and its developers and staff all thought about what different could mean. Instead of reaching compromise and a general consensus, Microsoft seemed to put everything in to please everyone but combined, the changes will likely please very few.
(Excerpt) Read more at zdnet.com ...
Not sure about Office, but I did find an interface program that sort of helps restore some of the XP-like features to file explorer:
http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/
You might try google search for ‘classic menu’
....the wife and ME....is the correct usage.
The words you use should be the same when used TOGETHER as they would be if used separately. So if “...it’s Apple for the wife at home” if used singly......and if “...it’s Apple for me at home” when used singly; then it’s the same when used together, as illustrated above.
Other than that, you done good! ;oD
If you find out, nav, pls Ping me. I want it back, too.
Thanks.
DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run...
I’m sitting on my laurels to have been ahead of the curve, went Apple from TI 99/4a, bought stock....mmmmmm. Microsoft is deservedly on the way out for being squares and dweebs.
I believe W8 is targeted to the mobile computing market. As in the presumed successor to the desktop and laptop. I think they’re putting it out there early to give hardware developers an OS to develop their hardware to. The end result will be a MS IPAD-like device which replaces desktop and laptops. You just bring it with you wherever you go and connect via whatever network is available.
Agreed that the mobile interface makes ZERO sense on a desktop. With the prevalence of iPads and other tablet devies taking over for desktops... It does make a certain kind of sense.
Heck, even 2008 Server indulged the idiocy of changing interfaces for the heck of it rather than to improve things. The entire way of using the GPO administrative application changed. You basically had to completely unlearn the process and learn the new one. What crack smoking moron decided to do that to SysAdmins?
I took a class on writing user interfaces some time ago, and it was a pretty basic rule that you don’t yank the rug out from under users and make them relearn everything without a damned good reason. Microsoft seems to like doing it on a lark.
98 Good, ME, not so much.
XP excellent. Vista, junk.
Windows 7 good. Windows 8 will likely be unusable.
Yeah, their server shenanigans are a whole separate rant of mine. Especially since I have both 03 and 08 boxes in production and have to keep switching between the two (not to mention the convoluted mess IIS turned into).
Yeah. Hindsight is 20/40...
Never. Apple does not want to play in the low-margin market, so that will be left to others. Figure 30% market share for desktops is the most reasonable target, but all on the upper 50% of desktops by price. Probably higher market share for laptops, but again, all in the upper half of systems.
The rest of the market.... well, that's Microsoft for now, but don't be too surprised some years down the road if Linux becomes standardized enough to be the OS of choice for low-end hardware such as netbooks, because the price of the OS for something like Windows will be prohibitive compared to hardware cost.
To head that off, Microsoft will have to cut prices and deal with smaller profits on a smaller piece of the overall pie, though they could still easily have a majority of marketshare, but without the profits they're accustomed to.
There are plugins that you can install to bring the old menus back. UBitMenu is one of them, but there are others too.
http://www.ubit.ch/software/ubitmenu-languages/
Uggh! Tablets/smart phones are useful for processing other people's data, but they are awful for entering anything more than a minimal amount of data. For example, I love playing music on my iPod Touch, but I could never imagine editing music on it - the touch user interface is just far too sloppy on positioning to do any useful cutting and pasting. It gets a little better with a capacitive stylus, but you don't get the single pixel positioning like you can with a mouse.
Similarly, viewing webpages is wonderful on a tablet (for most sites, some stink on ice without a full screen). But even entering this amount of data and html codes would just be painful. If I'm responding on FR on a tablet, I usually skip quoting other text or putting in any html codes. And even then it takes many times longer to type that it would with a real keyboard.
Originally (pre-PC) the whole concept of SOFTware was that you could change it without changing the HARDware.
Now, every OS “upgrade” requires significant hardware improvments.
I gave up on this “upgrade racket” awhile ago. I got an extra refurb-XP when Vista came out.
I’m going lower tech because I’m really just not interested in completely updating my stuff just because some company want a new influx of cash.
Same for me on cell phones. I have not and don’t plan on getting iPhone, etc..
See post #37, thanks Boogieman!
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