What in the world are these "developers" thinking? That everyone only uses small mobile devices for all computing activities?
These are all very poor interfaces for large monitors natively, though at least Cinnamon running over Gnome 3 transfers a painful experience into a pleasant enough one.
Microsoft had a great run but it’s crap like this that makes me thing that they’re nearing the end. The world is changing and fast, and they’re going to get left behind IMHO.
Sounds like I’ll just be hitting the ‘B’ button on my KVM switch more often to make use of my far-more-impressive Linux Kubuntu desktop.
As an end user its really annoying having to learn another OS especially if its inferior to the previous one.
Why not MS keep a sound, fundamental OS like XP and instead of overhauling it just add newer versions with more creative apps and functions. Maybe I’m just getting older and more resistant to the pace of rapid changes in this modern era. Yet still if something works well and good why flux it up with change for the purpose of changes sake to accomodate the less than almighty dollar.
Yep, us oldtime Mac users well recall Dvorak down on his knees Bobbing for Microsoft, over the years.
If he says Windows 8 sucks, it must really suck. Because if there's one thing Dvorak knows ...
BUMP
They’ll have to pry my XP from my cold, dead hands.
But what would be really nice is a meta-OS, something where you could roll your own interface over a collection of interchangable, interoperable OS objects. What a cool secondary market that would make. What freedoms we could enjoy. Why should we be subjected to the tyrannical whims of the capricious self-proclaimed OS deities at MS? Occupy the OS!
Just kidding. XP will work for now. Probably forever, for what I do. But I am hedging my bets. I run my XP on a Mac via Bootcamp. Best of both worlds.
People who own PC’s are like those who own British cars. They need at least two of them to be certain that one will be available when you need it.
John C. Dvorak,an esteemed critic who has yet to master Windows 7 or so out of touch that he can’t afford a copy.
If Dvorak hates it we can expect a resounding success.
Microsoft is trying to get ahead of the game in going for for the tablet users, at the risk of losing a chunk of the more lucrative desktop, laptop market. Microsoft needs to wake up and see that they are at a crossroads that is going to hurt them, unless they go both ways. ...My PC is XP, and my laptop is Windows 7. It’s took a month or two to get used to Win 7, and when I use my PC, I’m reminded of how user friendly XP is. Every change to something new comes with some reluctance. I remember the old days sitting up all night to record programs onto cassette tapes, and then the Dos programs and the early Macs, Win 3.0 and 3.1. I skipped 95 and went to 98 late in the game, stayed with that until XP was tried and proven, and now I’ve gone to Win 7 with a few gripes, but I like the speed, and it is stable. Window 8 is a step I don’t want to take. I’m getting too old to keep up with the age of pop communications and gadgets, and they have nothing to do with what I want to do with a computer. My wife loves all the touch screen, gadget stuff, and she can have it. I’m glad Microsoft is making an OS that looks like her cellphone screen and ipad, or whatever it is called, but I’m not into it. Microsoft still has 20 years of outrageous profits to be made by keeping people like me happy. Go both ways.
Windows 3.1 good
Windows 95 turd
Windows 98 good
Windows Millenium Edition turd
Windows XP good
Windows Vista turd
Windows 7 good
Windows 8 projected…turd
Windows 8 is a good setup for a tablet or bigger cell phone.
But they sabotage the experience on the PC to make a unified OS that works on all of them.
If they made it simple to optionally make it look and behave like windows 7 it’d be ok, but so far they intentionally remove the ability