If it ain't broke don't fix it.
Was it the same people that did the obamacare website?
“New Coke.”
Microsoft should go back and use Windows XP for a base...so people can use their own programs and tap into new stuff.
On my kvm switch are:
winXP, win7, win8.1, and a ubuntu box.
Gotta keep up with everything.
I have Win 7 at home and Win 8 on my work laptop. I find them both to work great. I had no problem switching to W8 and do not understand the problem others are having. IMHO it’s become sort of a custom to badmouth every other Windows release and quite a few of these people are just jumping on the bandwagon.
My company is poised to migrate (to Win-8) right around the release of Windows 13 ;’)
I’ll go to the new O/S when it comes out as Warp 9.5
Had my new Sony laptop for work and it crashed, called Sony and when the tech answered, his first comment was: are you calling because your computer crashed? MS sent out an update last night and crashed Windows 8 all around the world. After 2 more crashed, I had Windows 7 installed and not one problem since.
MS: Stop fixing something that isn’t broke!
sound like brain dead ppl are still working at MS. We don’t want a transition to that garbage of a windows 8 interface for windows 9. Everyone been telling MS that windows 8 was UGLY months before release! They didn’t listen
I am very happy with 8.1 but it was a mess to get it the way I liked XP. Now if they would only allow me to hack into the Powerball?????
Yeah.
It’s usage went from nothing to nothing and a half.
just another one of those articles that mirrors the “death of the Tea Party” cliche.
Windows 8 is supposedly so terrible, so little used, and so hated, these nerds have to keep repeating it every month because reality isn’t playing along.
“The old guard who came up with Windows 8 and refused to listen to beta testers are gone and Microsoft has more or less given up trying to rescue its slandered OS.”
Hallelujah! Hopefully the departing ‘old guard’ include the idiots who came up with the Office Ribbon, the Outlook.com interface, and other recent MS UI nightmares.
MS was never the best company when it came to design, but at least they applied a fairly consistent and intuitive UI standard to their products, until a few years ago. They really need to get back to focusing on their strong suits instead of trying to be something they are not.
If it ain't broke don't fix it.
Edsel.
Say you log on to another Windows 9 PC using your login and password –not only will your data files be accessible from your cloud storage, but also the apps you use.
"Just A Rather Very Intelligent System", in case anyone was wondering.
The Win8 features I don't like have to do with those stupid new full-screen apps. You know, the ones that take up the full screen on launch, with absolutely no window frame visible - like the old DOS apps. Isn't this supposed to be "Windows"? If so, where are the windows? Seems like a major step backward to ancient DOS days to me.
Trying to remember how to get out of one of those stupid new full-screen apps is a pain. You "swipe in" (with a mouse?) from one of the sides of the screen - just can't remember which one. Not intuitive at all.
It was the OS version of “New Coke”