>>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.
it is great on a laptop or tablet for surfing and blogging and twittering...
but not at all useful in the workplace
This has INFURIATED me at the office. I've been pleading the case with my leadership to allow us engineers to deploy Windows server Core edition which is just a Powershell console. They're fighting me tooth and nail saying, "Oh well if you ever leave, no one will know how to administer that system."
I wonder, sometimes, if leadership even gives a damn about server security. I'm personally trying to move more toward *Nix administration. They make better money, are growing in demand, and no one ever argues with you over whether or not to install the GUI.