[Gaffer]

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.

[mikrofon]

Windows 8: The Final Frontier

[DBrow]

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”?

[ShadowAce]

My OS works for me—not the other way around.

[ShadowAce]

windows ping! :)

[Darksheare]

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.

[Dahoser]

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."

Windows 8 must be object oriented because it extends the pain and misery of Office 2007/2010.

[VanDeKoik]

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.

[Buckeye McFrog]

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?

[catnipman]

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.

[relictele]

He thinks Microsoft will be safe because it has so many other lines of business that are strong.

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.

[TomGuy]

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.

[adorno]

Not this same crap from the same ABM crowd predicting failure for Windows 8. The same kind of nonsense comes out from so-called experts in the field, about any and all products just before they're released. The same kind of predictions were made about all Windows versions and about MS Word and it's "ribbon interface", and now, Windows is still in just about every household in the world where computers can be used. Same kind of predictions were made about iPhones and iPads and Android smartphones, and, here we are with those gadgets, seemingly, in everyone's hands.

Predictions are best made after a product has been in the market for years (20-20 hindsight works best). Most consumers don't pay attention to the "experts", and success depends on those consumers, who, most times, are wiser than those "experts".

[bgill]

Here’s an idea. How about just fixing the problems of the previous versions and leaving the rest of it alone.

[MasterGunner01]

Hey, Microsoft, I’m still using Windows XP Pro! I’ve got two laptops with Win 7. Vista sucked major wind and now you’re screwing around with Win 8? Winning the future is NOT with Win 8, bozos.

[ctdonath2]

Microsoft Is In Serious Danger Of Flying Straight Into A Mountain With Windows 8

More like Microsoft Is In Serious Danger Of Running Straight Into A Mountain Lion With Windows 8.

[Gideon7]

There is no integration of WinRT or Metro with the enterprise. Windows Phones and ARM tablets cannot join an Active Directory domain. They cannot be remotely managed through Group Policy. IT staff cannot install software remotely (including AV) or fix trouble tickets using Remote Administration. IT staff cannot install apps. Only the end-user can install apps, and then only from the public Microsoft Store.

So basically a Windows 8 phone or tablet has all the disadvantages of the iPhone/iPad/Android — no integration with the enterprise, no remote management, no domain control, no enterprise apps — with none of the advantages of Apple’s and Android’s large installed base.

Microsoft’s greatest strength is in the enterprise. Microsoft’s failure to leverage Windows 8 with their enterprise advantage is beyond stupid.

[doorgunner69]

XP forever. Works flawlessly for me, has for years.

Who needs whtever new crap 8 brings? More goofy Mac type stuff? Keep Updating XP. My old HP calculators have worked for decades with the same operating system. Quit dicking around with things that work, just to try and up the cash flow.