Windows 8 is a Disaster So Massive, Its Gravitational Field Is Actually Attracting Other Disasters From Every Corner Of The Galaxy So That They Spiral In On Redmond, Washington, Threatening To Turn That Medium-Sized Town Into A Veritable Black Hole Of Disaster For The Entire Universe.
And I like Winders 8 just fine.
My first description was as follows:
take every cutesy thing to have ever come from the internet. Take every unlabeled icon ever invented. Take what works from the Iphone. Take a bucket of red paint, blue paint, and yellow paint. Chew it all up, swallow, the vomit the results on your desktop. That’s how much sense it makes.
Windows 8 only sucks if you have to use it. Microsoft is like Republicans. Just when something starts going right and they figure out how to do something well, the screw it all up and ruin it for themselves.
Microsoft has a lot to learn about user-friendliness.
I’ve using Windows 8.1 for several months for a variety of productive uses, and it works quite well for me. The touch screen can sometimes be easier to use than the mouse or the touch pad. And file searching is also easier. But it’s only an incremental upgrade over Windows 7.
It IS a disaster. It can make people long for the days of Vista or even Windows ME.
They are basically trying to take an OS that works for a mobile device and throw it onto a desktop. I couldn’t imagine deploying it far and wide onto a corporate network. There would be zero productivity, and a mutiny against the IT department.
I hate it...
give me back XP..
my old computer was dying that’s why I had to get a new one..
“melds a PC with a table”???
I recently had a user with an 8.1 Machine.
They travelled quite a bit, so they had a bunch of wireless profiles floating in there from various hotels, restaurants, airports, customer sites, etc.
Unless you can connect to those access points, you can’t delete them through the GUI. You have to go into the file system and delete the information, or use command line tools to accomplish the same thing.
When they needed an new PC, Windows 8 has driven everyone I know to Apple.
Another day, another hit from the sufferers of Microsoft Derangement Syndrome...and the usual clown car of Linux Zealots, Apple fanboys, and people that are on XP.
For all of us Win 8 users we usually get to hear how impossible it is for us to use an OS that we are all currently using just fine. And how self-proclaimed computer gurus cant figure out how to use an OS that is 99% the same as Windows 7.
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 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.
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.
It is a stupid idea that a tablet and a PC should have the exact same OS and interface.
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.
Or did people lose interest (about the time Friends was cancelled or so)?