An OS licensor telling it’s customers that they make crap is really going to turn this thing around!
I smell Ballmer.
Does the interface have a classic (Windows 7) mode?
Last Friday I visited a “shopping mall”.
Something I do about twice per year.
The Apple store was mobbed, with at least 10 additional people lined up outside waiting to be admitted by a bouncer.
The Microsoft kiosk selling the “Surface” had 5 employees and no customers.
BTW I’m no fan of either but I use Windows on my stuff.
I hate Microsoft windows, it always crashes, lockups, malfunctions but I will still use it because it beats the alternative of owning an Apple which is gey.
The OS isn’t suited at all for Desktops.
You know if Best Buy is offering “Free Windows 8 Training”, you have a problem.
I never thought it possible, but this thing may bomb more spectacularly than Vista....
I believe it may do ok on mobile devices though.
Windows 8 will go down as Microsoft’s biggest mistake of all time. Worse than the OS BOB.
There is already a pretty large group of companies that sell software to strip out that horrid interface as best it can be stripped down.
I have been in the technology industry for may years and Windows 8 is so stunningly bad on the desktop and notebook that I’m amazed. Maybe it is aces on tablets but why Microsoft would push a touch interface on regular machines is so odd. It is as if they did not research with end users.
Windows 8 is the best thing that has ever happened to Apple and Linux that I can recall.
The should have not called in Windows 8, it should be called Windows Vomit 8.
Look at these specs, what a ripoff!
CPU MOS 6502 @ 1 MHz
Memory 4 KB standard expandable to 8 KB or 48 KB using expansion cards
Graphics 40×24 characters, hardware-implemented scrolling
So an Apple article about Microsoft is critical?
Somebody needs a life.
I need to upgrade to a better desktop machine.
I think I will get a Win8 box and install Linux and Win7 also...perhaps XP as well. This way I will be prepared for whatever.
It’s the UI, stupid.
Ballmer is a jackass.
I have always been a Windows user, and before that a DOS user. Apple is too damned expensive, and actually more monopolistic than MS, since they refuse to let anyone else make the hardware.
I’m holding off on Windows 8, in hopes that they, or the computer makers who work with them, will come up with a usable system for laptops. I use a keyboard and mouse, and have NO DESIRE to use touchscreen. None.
Evidently there are added programs that can bring it back toward the old desktop, but I don’t know how much they slow down or complicate the operating system. So I’ll just wait until I hear that they have a decent desktop system in place and all the bugs ironed out, and hope that my Windows 7 doesn’t give up the ghost before that happens.
I understand that they want to be competitive with iPhone and other small touchscreen devices; but not at the expense of wrecking their computer business, I trust.
Bambi’s fault. Straight up!
I’ve tried Windows 8.
Avoid, avoid! It may be swell for tablets but on a laptop it’s annoying. You can’t find invisible icons...must rightclick and see what if anything happens...the classic start menu is gone and you need to dl “classic shell” or some other program to replace it — windows offers no option.
Bunch of colored squares you don’t need on the new “Start” and though you can weed them out (they’re apps), the start up screen is them, not your desktop. You can’t have desktop appear automatically on startup. Logging out is found when you click on your icon. You just want to escape and apparently there’s no single click for that!
The control panel is hard to find too, and if you search in the wrong place, it says it can’t find the darn thing.
You’ll be tearing down and building your computer experience for a long time, trying to get it as comprehensible as Windows 7.
Do yourself a favor and stick to 7.
Not sure “Apple Insider” is an objective reporter here but, from what I gather, Windows 8 is for people who want their computer to have the same template as their smart phones. I’d rather have my computer function like a computer so I’m happy to stick with 7 and happy that 8 isn’t taking off.
I’ve no reason to switch from 7 to anything else.
I don’t have a touchscreen or any sort of smart phone or mobile device that would require those tiles, so I can’t see any reason to buy that.
The only part of my pc I bring with me when I’m not at it is my play list, and that goes on i-pod, so microsoft, dunno what to tell you.
If Microsoft had been smart, they’d have pulled out XP and marketed it as Windows 8.
I don’t think Microsoft realizes the market is changing - specifically, their market share is changing. They need something new, away from Windows; otherwise, they’ll be irrelevant or extinct in ten years....
Drove me nuts.
Now she wants GoogleChrome laptop. $249 at best buy. This thing works in the cloud!
No disk drive. Strange.