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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So you are saying it would be a perfect fit for health.gov then.
Windows 7 plus Dell got me to switch.
The final straw was when my daughters high end school computer, about three months old, was left with Vista.
“When they needed an new PC, Windows 8 has driven everyone I know to Apple.”
I’ve seen a lot of that too. It’s partly because people don’t know that W7 PCs are plentifully available because the only source of PCs most people know about is Best Buy, and Best Buy refuses to sell W7 PCs.
Also, many people decided if they were going to be forced to learn something radically new, then this would be the perfect time to break away from Microsoft forever. W8 was THE perfect OS to drive long-time loyal customers away.
All together now: HEY, THAT'S RACIST!
So, it would make sense for me to update from 8 to 8.1? No unpleasant surprises, like there were when 8 came on my new PC?
And you'll have a hard time convincing me that a lot of the viruses are not created by people hired by the anti-virus sellers.
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