Posted on 06/07/2012 7:00:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Alarm bells must be ringing in Microsoft's Redmond headquarters.
Microsoft is close to releasing Windows 8 and it's shaping up to be another "Vista". Only this time the repercussions could be much worse. The critics who have been using Windows 8 are extremely negative on the new look and feel of the operating system:
At Slate, Farhad Manjoo writes, "In my time with Windows 8, I’ve felt almost totally at sea—confused, paralyzed, angry, and ultimately resigned to the pain of having to alter the way I do most of my work."
At Marketwatch, John Dvorak says, "Windows 8 looks to me to be an unmitigated disaster that could decidedly hurt the company and its future ... The real problem is that it is both unusable and annoying."
Our own analyst, and long time Microsoft observer Matt Rosoff said, "I still think it's needlessly confusing and hard to use ... I've spoken to other people who have been testing Windows 8 for months. A lot of them found it puzzling like I did, and it's getting worse, not better, with each beta update."
Rosoff doesn't think it's going to be a disaster for Microsoft. He thinks Microsoft will be safe because it has so many other lines of business that are strong.
Maybe!
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Depends on what “productive” entails.
“Connected anywhere anytime to anything” can be _very_ productive.
“I’m not at my desk” isn’t productive.
” it’s a matter of confusing users - geezers or not - for no good reason”
Been there, done that.
It was called Microsoft BOB.
And it was annoying...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZegWedG-jk4
in a work environment some place insist that ALL your work be in subdirectories under "My Documents" - it makes backup and restore easier.
You are allowed to have any tree structure you want under there- but it has to be under there- also it was mapped to a network location- so any place in the building (or around the world on the VPN) you would see the same "My Documents"
pretty cool once you got used to doing it
I could log onto my powerhouse development machine I got at home and see my exact same files. (my home computer with 4 monitors and a manly 16 gig of memory and VMware (that they could not understand at the office) running multiple virtual machines for testing
I guess my comment came from my perspective as a developer. I wonder how many iPad apps were developed using iPads?
I am doing the same with a VPN to my desktop to a secure network....there is no need for MY DOCUMENTS....I can see my whole desktop computer through MS Remote Desktop. Restrictions like a single folder are just for lazy ITs
Very few, if any. As a whole, an iPad is not a content creation device (though it can be used as such in a pinch), but there are a lot of valid business uses that only need to consume content or capture data.
None, but only because Apple disallows any “arbitrary code” program-creation apps. If not for that artificial blockage, there would be many apps for writing apps.
"START" menu? Who comes up with such idiotic notions?
I’m still working on XP. We skipped Vista altogether, and are just starting to roll out Windows 7. It takes years to qualify a new OS to make sure it runs all the tools a big organization uses, so they don’t switch all that often.
Those who use Macs don’t need to worry about it much.
This, though, isn’t on a Mac.
;-)
More like Microsoft Is In Serious Danger Of Running Straight Into A Mountain Lion With Windows 8.
I guess it remains to be seen. I can’t see manufacturing or business adopting it.
That's noe of my major peeves. Can't stand spaces in names. It makes them much more difficult to manipulate gracefully from scripts and the command line.
Well when your company IT department has to handle backup for 50,000 users on a daily basis, they like to keep things as simple for themselves as possible
mapping “My Documents” is a freebie from the operating system and yes it does make them have to do less work, but the results are good.
I would hat to have to ask them to go fish around every possible subdirectory structure to try to detemrine what i want backed and not backed up
Lazy? or Practical? I am both so I would do it the same way if i was in charge
Let's be realistic. Tech journalism hyperbole aside, Win 8 isn't going to "kill Microsoft" on the desktop/laptop side, and it isn't going to "kill Apple" on the phone/tablet side.
“You press the Windows key on the key board, and you select a program.”
So now I have to remove my hand from my mouse hundreds of times a day, press a keyboard key, and them move my hand back to the mouse.
Power users consider it a total defeat to remove their hand from their mouse unless they actually need to TYPE in some text! And yes, I’m a power user (programmer) and do in fact start programs hundreds of times a day.
Like I said, W8 has removed the steering wheel (mouse) from the car and replaced it with a set of steering buttons.
I wasn’t being realistic. The hyperbole just needed someone to express it.
Completely understand. I had an ID10T keyboard error one day and built a directory on a Unix system with a space in the name. Had to check several Man pages to get that one fixed.
Had to chuckle at that one. MS came out with a major upgrade some years back, and our internal department presented a schedule for corporate wide updates (> 100,000 seats), permitting proper time for testing.
The CIO at that time was supposedly astounded, and did not understand why it could not be rolled out to all desktops and laptops over the next weekend; after all it's just a newer version of the same OS. He was not in that position the following year.
I'll say. After using only OS/X for the last couple of years, I recently had to install a Lenovo Windows 7 machine to run a specific application. Windows 7 is loaded with minor usability annoyances that Apple has already thought about and abstracted away from the user - annoyances that I never noticed before when I used Windows exclusively.
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