Missed Hopeful sign Number 3:
3. More Touchscreens, Form Factors, Sizes
Windows 8 struggled partially due to a lack of elegance in the new interface. But a lot of that bad buzz came from people who ran the OS without a touchscreen. Some of these Win8 installations involved new licenses installed on old machines, which gain little value, if any, from the new UI. But OEMs exacerbated this problem when, heading into last winter, they managed to release only a handful of touch-enabled options.
By the time this year’s back-to-school and holiday seasons roll around, store shelves should not only feature a great abundance of touch-oriented Windows 8 devices but also a greater diversity of form factors. This variety will include some novel ideas, such as 30-inch hybrid tablets that can be docked like a desktop but also laid flat to create a table display. But the entrance of mini-tablets is probably the most notable development.
As mentioned above, these devices — thanks to not only their ability to offer legitimate productivity tools in a consumer-friendly tablet but also their low prices — could be enormously popular. Microsoft might even debut a 7-inch Surface model as soon as this summer.
They sold 100 million copies (insert stupid remark about how all of them are unused), obviously consumers have “rejected” it. /s
But don’t let that get in the way of the average tech “journalist” still trying to push the group-think.
I almost don't come to them because of the childish comments from both sides. (Mac vs. Windows)
I am not saying Windows is great or better than Mac but Windows does what it does okay.
I've tried Ubuntu on an old box and it worked great. But, I bought an HP box just before Christmas and it has W8 and I kind of like it. The box was cheap - under $300 and has a quad core AMD, 8 Gb of memory and a Tb hard drive. Hard to beat that...
Research firm Forrester says IT isn’t interested in Windows 8,
That is bull.
Windows 7 is already old in its life cycle and Windows 8 with HTML5 is a future platform as well as present. My firm has no choice but to go with 8 then adapt to IE11 when 8.1 comes out. Not just that we have no choice but the win8 Kernel runs MUCH better on all our platforms than XP.
Wifey is open to a new laptop.. I reckun Blue may be on the horizon.. oh well,, as long as they stay off my tablet, OK. Ya see the price of putters these days. Wow
Windows Blue (Screen Of Death)
A good way to avoid the windows nightmare is get a Mac..:)
Bookmark.
All the folks that run WIN7, and have all their icons for everything on the Desktop, will never use WIN8, because of it’s McDonald’s French Fry Order look.
They have read the reports, or heard it from thier kids, that WIN8 disabled all those icons, or put them ‘in some damn tray I have to go find’.
As I see it, WIN7 is what XP could have been, and WIN8 is all the stuff they had to take off Vista, for that platform to do ‘something or other’.
“Windows 8 is still a new, radically different model”
No it’s not. It’s simply a poorly executed touch interface implemented on desktop PCs that retreats to a Win 7 interface when you have to do real work — and not spin on top of tables while you exchange screens with other useless 20 somethings.
They brought nothing to the UI of innovaiton. They fixed security holes. They presented more hooks to keep users ‘trapped’ by Office and Exchange.
the rest is CRAPOLA.
IMHO.
Lacks elegance? Not exciting?
The touchscreen concept may be fine for checking email and tweeting to other twits, but it does not lend itself to computer applications.
But, then, I consider texting a giant step backward.
The mistake is the belief that one OS can fit all devices.
The problem with Windows 8 is that IT TOTALLY CHANGES the user interface into something you don’t know and is not easily understandable.
I lost almost a month of productivity on this piece o’ crapware, until I found a way to effectively remove it by installing an application that mimics the old stat menu.
Something as simple as bring up a file explorer to get to a folder containing your documents was impossibly to find.
I don’t use a computer to make videos and sound recording. I use it to do work, and nothing worked anymore.
I learned to love windows 8.
Takes 60 seconds to install “classic shell”.
Instantly solved all my usability problems.
Gave me the same old windows 7 interface!
A crusty old guy I know that sells old cars cheap, does auto mechanics, etc. fessed up that he’s been a Windows Beta tester since Windows 3.1.
He RAVES about the new W8 OS. He hated it on his laptop, but on a tablet he claims it’s the best OS Windows has ever produced.
I am running Windows 8 on my new laptop. I’ve had no problems to speak of. The computer boots up quickly and once I click on the “desktop panel” it works much like Win 7 does. I also rely more on the mouse than the touchscreen.
"Is that what we're going for now? 'Okay?' We used to go for 'pretty good.'"