Originally Posted By: KrisZ
The final product feels and really is a compromise and a bad one at that. It's an attemt to have something totally new, but keeping the old without the consideration how the two interact with each other.
I believe if there was an option to stay 100% within one interface or the other, Windows 8 would be a hit.
I cut out the rest of what you said because I agree with all of it. I guess this is the unfortunate dilemma the Microsoft designers had to deal with.
Originally Posted By: badtlc
I tried Win8 on my machines. It lasted 1 hour. The UI was just terrible. I don't see how they are marketing this towards anything other than Phones and tablets. If you don't have a touchscreen, it just slows you down.
One hour? Okay so it's your computer, your time, and your money and I am *not* trying to convince you to like or accept anything, but.... one hour isn't really enough time to give a new operating system a fair shake. I think you're falling into the "I want to stick with what's familiar" trap like so many seem to do any time major operating system updates are released for any platform.
You don't even have to use the tiles if you don't want to; you can stick to the old way of having a bunch of shortcuts on your desktop. On an average day I interact with operating systems ranging from XP, Vista, 7, 8, Android, iOS, and a few flavors of Linux and I can say with absolute certainty that one thing that 8 does not do is slow me down (I'm running it on a laptop; no touch screen).
With technology nothing is ever an improvement on anything if you're not willing to take the time to learn and adapt.
Again, no judgement from me, I don't care; if you're happy then I'm happy for you. But saying that something is terrible kind of implies that you spent an appropriate amount of time to develop that opinion.
The final product feels and really is a compromise and a bad one at that. It's an attemt to have something totally new, but keeping the old without the consideration how the two interact with each other.
I believe if there was an option to stay 100% within one interface or the other, Windows 8 would be a hit.
I cut out the rest of what you said because I agree with all of it. I guess this is the unfortunate dilemma the Microsoft designers had to deal with.
Originally Posted By: badtlc
I tried Win8 on my machines. It lasted 1 hour. The UI was just terrible. I don't see how they are marketing this towards anything other than Phones and tablets. If you don't have a touchscreen, it just slows you down.
One hour? Okay so it's your computer, your time, and your money and I am *not* trying to convince you to like or accept anything, but.... one hour isn't really enough time to give a new operating system a fair shake. I think you're falling into the "I want to stick with what's familiar" trap like so many seem to do any time major operating system updates are released for any platform.
You don't even have to use the tiles if you don't want to; you can stick to the old way of having a bunch of shortcuts on your desktop. On an average day I interact with operating systems ranging from XP, Vista, 7, 8, Android, iOS, and a few flavors of Linux and I can say with absolute certainty that one thing that 8 does not do is slow me down (I'm running it on a laptop; no touch screen).
With technology nothing is ever an improvement on anything if you're not willing to take the time to learn and adapt.
Again, no judgement from me, I don't care; if you're happy then I'm happy for you. But saying that something is terrible kind of implies that you spent an appropriate amount of time to develop that opinion.
