Windows 8 provides the EXACT same desktop I have used for years. Just click on it!. Everything installed on my Dell XPS15 works!
This is ignorance by the reporters.
Bagdahd Ballmer propaganda.
It is going to be a collosal disaster for Microsoft. It’s awful:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4boTbv9_nU
Having been a windows user since version 3.0’ I think Microsoft makes too many changes, just for the sake of change.
Once users get past the learning curve of each new iteration of Windows, and get their production back up to speed, their servers updated, and figures out which of their customers have what version of Windows, for backwards compatibility of communications and documents, along comes still another new version of everything.
Take the newer “ribbon” that replaced the standard menus in MS Office, now I had the old menu system down pat, there was nothing I couldn’t do in Word and Excel, now with the new versions, it’s hunt and peck all over again. The whole conceptualization is gone.
And the, there’s the “library” filing system, very confusing for those who cut their teeth on the file and directory method. Duplicates everywhere, copies of files that I didn’t copy. I hate it.
Of course, I’m an old guy, and us old guys aren’t as fanatical about “change” as our younger counterparts, so maybe that’s the problem.
So far, what I’ve seen and read about Windows 8 , I want no part of it.
Y’all let me know how you like it. It’s getting about time to build a new desktop, and I’ll either go with Win 7 or 8. XP has been great, but since I’ve been using Win 7 on the laptop, I’ve decided to move on.
The last thing I want to see on my laptop is something that looks like it came off an ATM or cell phone.
Didn’t they say the same thing about Vista?
this on the day that yahoo, an ms bing partner, is dumping all blackberrys and move all employees to google and iphone based phones.
Yahoo employees should all be getting win 8 phones. This is another marketing blunder.
If history is a good indicator, I’ll wait for Windows 9 SP1.
You know, some of these guys are like veteran football coaches. At some point in their careers, the game passes them by. Chuck Knox, Tom Landry, Mike Ditka could not adapt to the changing game, but they were too venerable to take a demotion, so they had to leave.
Steve Ballmer is one of those.
Bigger than Vista, bigger than the Zune!!!
If you have to tell the media there’s no doubt, then clearly there is doubt, otherwise it would be unnecessary.
Steve Ballmer isn’t the brightest bull in the china shop, is he?