I have been a software engineer for over 20 years
Microsoft 8 is the first product that made me want to get violent.
Imagine if you were a garage mechanic and when you showed up for work tomorrow your boss said you had to keep getting everything done but we took all your tools and you only this hammer and this screwdriver to work with.
They were ABSOLUTE IDIOTS when they released this pice of crap.
The CLEARLY did NO comsumer product testing. NONE~!
If they had given this to a room full of secretaries and business people and said “go do what you normally do at work” they would have had people throwing chairs at them in a half an hour.
Then... when you get stuck buyin this crapware and hate it, they tell you that you can BUY a previous version of Windows 7- but you have to BUY an ‘upgrade’ to windows 8 that will let you remove it, so you can install Windows 7
I am surprised the stock has not already nose-dived
Server 2012 isn’t much better.
>>I have been a software engineer for over 20 years
>>Microsoft 8 is the first product that made me want to get violent.
That’s the problem however, you’ve been at it for 20+ years (and so have I), so you are used to things working a certain way and given our age, its harder to adapt to change. I find Windows 8 disorienting as well - on the otherhand my kids use it and love it, people with just a few years of other experience don’t seem to mind it either (at least the ones I know), so its not that its bad imo, its just different....but MS isn’t creating new software for us dinosaurs, they are designed BY AND FOR the next generation of users - they don’t find it nearly as hard to use it.
“The CLEARLY did NO comsumer product testing. “
Actually, they did. Sort of. Hundreds of thousands of free advance “preview” copies were downloaded and tested by anyone who wanted to. Universally, almost all of those testers told Microsoft that Metro UI was horrifically awful and that if Microsoft persisted with it, not only would it take down Microsoft, but it would take down the entire PC industry and all of their OEM “partners” as well.
Microsoft ignored ALL of this massive feedback.
And the result is now history.