Posted on 06/07/2012 7:00:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Alarm bells must be ringing in Microsoft's Redmond headquarters.
Microsoft is close to releasing Windows 8 and it's shaping up to be another "Vista". Only this time the repercussions could be much worse. The critics who have been using Windows 8 are extremely negative on the new look and feel of the operating system:
At Slate, Farhad Manjoo writes, "In my time with Windows 8, I’ve felt almost totally at sea—confused, paralyzed, angry, and ultimately resigned to the pain of having to alter the way I do most of my work."
At Marketwatch, John Dvorak says, "Windows 8 looks to me to be an unmitigated disaster that could decidedly hurt the company and its future ... The real problem is that it is both unusable and annoying."
Our own analyst, and long time Microsoft observer Matt Rosoff said, "I still think it's needlessly confusing and hard to use ... I've spoken to other people who have been testing Windows 8 for months. A lot of them found it puzzling like I did, and it's getting worse, not better, with each beta update."
Rosoff doesn't think it's going to be a disaster for Microsoft. He thinks Microsoft will be safe because it has so many other lines of business that are strong.
Maybe!
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
To tell you the truth, I am sick of MS software or human engineering gurus producing products that prohibit the user from fast, efficient use of the product when they know what a particular click or action will do.
Specifically, when I want to delete something, I don’t need to answer twenty effing questions about whether I am sure. Nor, do I want to see all the caution crap....if I had the time to negotiate all the screwed up human-response engineered help menus, I’d find out how to turn off all that crap if it is there. But, there’s the rub...these ‘facilitators’ make it next to humanly impossible to do that because people (other than some grandma who has just started using a computer) would like what they’ve done - thus, no need for these twits.
Windows 8: The Final Frontier
The stated goal of Office 2007 was to alter the way people worked (which is why they had no “revert to the old way” button), so it’s not too surprising that they’d try to change the way we use the OS.
I read an article way back, in which Microsoft developers were surprised to learn that Windows users had workarounds for many of the features of Windows.
Who puts their documents in “My Documents”?
Haha....and we thought only the odd numbered ST movies sucked....Windows may be setting a new paradigm here, folks...
My OS works for me—not the other way around.
windows ping! :)
Microsoft BOB.
And the interface looks like AOL from 1996.
It’s great for touchpads and phones, but for desktops or laptops it is a nightmare.
At least they should give us an alternative desktop view and a REAL start menu.
Only an underworked dilettante that writes very little. Most handle multiple documents under multiple areas. Try sifting through a thousand "My Document" entries to find that "Goldberg and Inklestein" (or other) file.....
Windows 8 must be object oriented because it extends the pain and misery of Office 2007/2010.
Wait’ll until you have a centralized IT dept to whom you have to go to on bended knee to get a problem solved, or install a new piece of s/w...
Blah Blah Blah...
Headline:
Usual group of anti-Microsoft Apple and Linux loudmouths complain yet again about the next version of Windows. Say it will fail as usual.
>> At least they should give us an alternative desktop view and a REAL start menu.
They do. It’s called Windows 7. :-)
(or XP, if you’re a hardcore reactionary.)
Heh, cool! There's a Windows Ping list now? Be still my beating heart!
Personally, it looks like I'm going to be running Windows 7 for the next decade. I can't see any reason whatsoever to switch to Win8 and waste weeks of time I don't have spare to waste. Where I work, we have had early copies of Win8 for the better part of a year, and it's just awful to work with.
My current theory is that Ballmer must secretly work for Apple. Why else would he be going about destroying Microsoft, the past 5 years or so?
“At Slate, Farhad Manjoo writes, “In my time with Windows 8, I’ve felt almost totally at sea—confused, paralyzed, angry, and ultimately resigned to the pain of having to alter the way I do most of my work.””
Same crap written back in 1994 when the same whiners had “issues” with that gal dang Start Menu.
I put pretty much everything in “My Documents” then put shortcuts on the desktop.
This is because our computers are leased, and “My Documents” is the default folder that they move over to the new computer. You have to specify the rest and sometimes they miss stuff...
So, since I lose my computer every three years or so, all the stuff I need to reconstitute a new working system is “My Documents.” Its a bit over 40GB, now... Takes about day or two after I get the new computer to get it back into working shape.
Currently we’re on XP and I’m happy with it, but it takes a couple of months for me to stop cursing every OS “upgrade.” Microsoft seems to change the names and locations of applications, apparently just for the hell of it. I don’t really appreciate that...
>> It’s great for touchpads and phones, but for desktops or laptops it is a nightmare.
Maybe their strategy is to force everyone onto tablets and phones by making the PC form factor OS unusable.
Won’t work for me, but I don’t count anyway.
The problem is that Windows 8 must run on Desktops, Laptops, Smart Phones and Pads. The Pads and Phones are the largest market not desktops. To run on Pads and Phones Windows had to be streamlined (dumbed down) to run faster with less power. This plus the lower screen resolution required the UI revisions. Desktops are now second priority for Windows. IMHO, this is Microsoft shooting itself in the foot.
Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t think a week goes by that I don’t curse Bill Gates.
Continuing the trend that began as SAP started to make inroads into the U.S. market.
You VILL do your business de vay our software tells you to.
Orders VILL be OBEYED without question!
Software guys are Lefties. What did you expect?
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