While I have not touched a Windows 8 machine, I have touched servers running Server 2012 which uses the same interface. What a train wreck. Whatever genius decided to slap a touchscreen type interface on a server OS should go back to serving fries with that.
The default installation of 2012 Server is server core. If you touched a 2012 server with that interface, then somebody had to install it. What genius did that?
Agreed. I have used Windows 8 a little. It is horribly designed and unintuitive.
I cannot imagine how the average office worker is going to use that interface. Even getting to the “start screen” is done in a strange way...no clicking...move the mouse to the upper right-hand corner. Then you can click on the window icon to get there.
What are they trying to do, drive away their core business users?
This is typical Microsoft, they just do whatever they want to do, and the customer and the industry be damned... similar to IBM back in the day, we can do whatever and the customer will just take it, we control the world... reality is that’s not so true anymore.
Why anyone would run a windows OS on a Server of any type is beyond me, Give me a flavor of Unix anyday when dealing with servers.