Posted on 06/07/2012 7:00:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Removing the Start Menu from Windows is like removing the steering wheel from a new car model. It is NOT an improvement or a “new” way of driving! It
s a wreck in the making is what it is.
Metro UI itself may be barely acceptable on a credit-card sized touch-screen device, but is 100% useless on a desktop or laptop screen, pretty much akin to stripping your kitchen of all cooking utensils except for a bowl and a pan.
If MS persists with this insanity when they release W8 to the public, I will be buying some LEAP Puts on a PC-tech index fund.
LOL!
I have to deal with *spit* Vista on the one laptop here.
I’m finding all kinds of things that Vista doesn’t play well with.
That's a lame excuse and you know it.
Find the independent reviewers or users or developers, ones who AREN'T either getting paid by Microsoft and who don't earn their bread by giving Lewinsky service to Microsoft for some other outfit -- just regular unbiased reviewers, users, developers -- who have a strong positive opinion of Win8 after using it for a while.
Few and far between, FRiend.
Microsoft is murdering its golden goose. Win7 is terrific -- fast, stable, secure. I can't fathom why they're killing it off, except that they're intent on committing seppuku in an effort to become relevant in the mobile space, something they can't seem to get their minds wrapped around.
I do (or used to before I started keeping most things in Dropbox instead). But with lots of subfolders, and of course having the "My Documents" folder mapped to my directory on an NAS.
Spare us from clueless pundits such as these who can't see the forest for the trees. Microsoft's market share in other areas is due almost entirely to their OS market share.
Windows 7?
You mean the last Windows OS people said was terrible and “ruined” the perfection of XP, which was said to have ruined the perfection from Windows 2000?
“Maybe their strategy is to force everyone onto tablets and phones by making the PC form factor OS unusable.”
Yes, that seems to be the strategy.
For about two years or so now we’ve been hearing that “The desktop computer is dead!”
Only because they are trying to force it to be so..
I put my documents in “My Documents” - but only because, after years of fighting with Windows over the issue, I finally relented and let it put them where it wants.
On a related tangent, I’m upgrading from WinXP to OS X. With all the anti-user UX misfeatures, Vista wasn’t happening. Hardware requirements, just to get no additional software benefit, meant Win7 was pointless. And now Win8 is going to take millions of pixels and terabytes of storage and give us ... AOL. Hello, Xcode...
I agree.
And who are the largest users of desktops and laptops? Businesses, gamers, etc. This alone is a huge install base.
What will wind up happening is Microsuck will have to support Windows 7 AND 8 at the same time because businesses will refuse to port.
I work in the control engineering industry. Trust me, nobody is going to run an oil refinery using Windows 8 tiles. Ain’t ever going to happen.
critics liked betamax too.
I do, albeit usually in individual project subfolders.
Where do you put your documents?
So how is it?
You press the Windows key on the key board, and you select a program.
Why is this now something that is so beyond average people to grasp? All of a sudden users are acting as if they practically live in their Start Menu. The last time I actually did anything other than use the frequently used program list must have been months ago.
Just for fun I just clicked on the “all programs” button and I have a god awful list of tiny icons and small black text on white backgrounds.
But we are to think this is the apex of GUI design that MS should not dare move away from?
Win7 already has plenty of annoyances. From what I have read, I intend to skip 8, just like I skipped VISTA.
Ribbon menus. Jumping-jack file explorer. Aero screen shaker. Search-and-you-might-find links.
7 makes me pine for XP. However, Win7 does utilize more memory and it is better with graphics/video intensive websites.
MS would have been smart to create a full XP theme for Win7.
Actually I wouldn’t trust anyone that says what tech any company will be using 2 years from now.
Because those are the same geniuses that said that:
Windows 95 is just too confusing to be of any use at a serious office. We have DOS and that’s all we need.
No one is going to ever upgrade to XP in my office. It looks like something from Playskool!
No one is going to install Windows7 (Vista service pack) in my firm!
iPad? Who’s ever going to use that toy! My IT guys laughed when I asked them if they plan on getting any.
A motorcycle is not a Mack Truck cut down to just Cummings Diesel engine and two 36" tires.
A truck is not a stretched Austin Mini.
If there is a need for commonality, it must be a microkernel layered with whatever drivers & interfaces the platform can handle. Scaling from 3" to 27" screen should bring more information/capability to view, not just more pixels rendering the same single-function buttons.
Yes, M$ is shooting itself in the foot ... using a 600m, 12ga slugs, a Serbu Super Shorty, and a distance of 1".
Then Office 2010 changed the way Office 2007 worked.
I swear that Microsoft changes their interfaces just to justify the existance of all those interface programmers.
“That’s a lame excuse and you know it.
Find the independent reviewers or users or developers, ones who AREN’T either getting paid by Microsoft and who don’t earn their bread by giving Lewinsky service to Microsoft for some other outfit — just regular unbiased reviewers, users, developers — who have a strong positive opinion of Win8 after using it for a while.”
Oh please!
It is the SAME group of people writing the same lame “OMG M$ sucks”!!! reviews of every MS OS since Windows 95.
And every time they look like idiots when actual people use it, dont act like little drama queens at having to learn something different, and actually grow to like it.
Then in a few years they are screaming when something they were told from “unbiased” reviewers was horrible is slightly altered because now they cant live without it.
Like what OS hasnt gone through some major UI changes? And what person would actually expect them not to?
“Who puts their documents in “My Documents”?”
People who work in enterprise environments and want their redirected profiles to be backed up.
In project folders on a separate drive. C is for executables and system, other drives are for project folders with project-related files.
Most people I know do this.
Maybe that’s a bad example of a Microsoft workaround, I’ll see if I can find the article I read.
but these critics know EVERYTHING, just ask them.
remember MS is not reaaaally sitting on cash. It is still just a little company. We are still using wordstar dot commands. Wordperfect is still a wannabe.
and their waste product produces the aroma of wild orchids.
(/s)
(for those in rio linda....)
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