Posted on 02/11/2014 1:11:44 PM PST by lbryce
One of Microsoft's strongest supporters took a good, hard look at the soon-to-be released next version of Windows 8, which could arrive in April, and threw his hands up in frustration.
The new version is called Windows 8 Update 1, and it includes a number of small changes, mostly minor tweaks.
These tweaks try to fix some of the complaints people still had about Windows 8. But blogger Paul Thurrott of the influential Windows blog “Supersite for Windows” says they really just make Windows 8 more difficult to use, especially on a tablet.
He took Microsoft to task, writing:
Windows 8 is a disaster in every sense of the word. This is not open to debate, is not part of some cute imaginary world where everyone's opinion is equally valid or whatever. Windows 8 is a disaster. Period.
There’s no reason to rehash the long list of complaints users have about Windows 8. We can summarize them: Windows 8 is not well designed. It's not easy to use.
While the idea behind it was good — a two-in-one device that melds a PC with a table — in practice, it's "a mess" Thurrott says, because it's really two operating systems, “mobile and desktop, fused together unnaturally like a Frankenstein's monster."
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Tablets are fine for browsing — they are good for that. PC’s are for doing serious work. Trying to develop an OS that will run well for on both is a monumental task involving a lot of early design trade-offs. Square peg/round hole.
who is this self appointed blogger person?
never heard of him.
I like the fact I can use real software without the need for pretenderware or absurd work arounds.
I liked 8 until I started working on deploying it. Now I am really starting to hate it.
Encrypted install.wim files, major issues with metro apps not working, cant sysprep an upgrade, MS paying funny games with people trying to do clean installs of 8.1, the list goes on.
You really have to wonder what the hell they were thinking. If I want to do an 8.1 clean install, I have to use a KMS key then activate using the original product key. The Dell systems I get in are all upgrades and cannot be sysprepped in their OEM form. That means more work for me. Windows 7 is still outstanding and I wish MS would tack on some of 8 and 8.1 features like storage space and the built in image backup.
Windows 8 runs my programs without a hitch without crashing. Windows 8.1 is certainly an improvement.
So can you please explain to some of us how we are able to use it with no problems?
You guys keep having to amp up the ridiculousness in your explanations in order to give you a reason why you cant figure it out, and never once realize that it may just be a personal problem and not a design flaw.
A month ago, I upgraded from a Toshiba Win7 to a new ASUS Ultrabook - gorgeous and fast!
It came with Win8 and I immediately upgraded top 8.1. Although I never really used it with Win8, it’s been a GREAT machine so far - no complaints re: Win8.1
btw, I set it to boot up to the desktop which it does REALLY fast!
I also loaded my 2003 MS Office Pro and all programs run perfectly on Win8.1
Finally, I downloaded MS Expressions 4 and copied by Frontpage 2003 website files - again all runs perfect.
I am still using XP, I will have to change here very soon, not looking forward to it.
But everyone on TV uses it, and they can do all kinds of stuff us real people can’t.
I can work around Windows 8; the typical yuppie couldn’t, and even for my own purposes there is no added benefit to justify having to work around it. Nobody wants a computer to look like a gadget.
shhhh are you trying to have those linux cry babies self terminate? (/s)
That’s the one thing they started with 7 actually.. Or at least got far worse on. They are real squirrely with the licensing and having the physical media now. Especially if you got an OEM copy. There’s a way to get a clean install for 8.1 if you had an 8.0 oem install, but the licensing won’t work on it because of the ‘retail’ vs ‘oem’ nonsense.
I mean they monitor if you’re trying to use the license on multiple computers but it’s a pain. You end up having to hope calling their automated system will work. I know they’re trying to make it hard for pirating, but man it’s a pain.
It is a stupid idea that a tablet and a PC should have the exact same OS and interface.
or worse....
I doubt anyone longs for Vista
It’s not really exactly the same. I think it’s a good idea to make your products have a familiar feel across platforms. Xbox 1, phones, tablets, and desktop. I don’t think they need to be identical and they aren’t especially for the first 2. But a common interface isn’t a bad idea at all.
Touch screen laptops really help and I hope those become much more common by the end of this year.
When XP reaches EOL, the best thing M$ could do is “upgrade” Windows 8 to Windows 8XP. That way their customers would be happy and they’d be able to keep supporting and OS that works perfectly well for 90% of their customers.
My question is why do you have to set it to boot to desktop? Isn’t it common sense for it to come that way?
LiveOneCare and Vista did that for me.
That, after 20 years of heavy Windows use! I got off that carousel.
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