Windows 8 Consumer Preview - One word: fail (hilarious rant)

http://www.dedoimedo.com ^ | 21 March 2012 | Igor Ljubuncic

[Notary Sojac]

Windows 8 is obviously geared toward smartphones and tablets, or as we should call them, stupidphones and craplets. Lovely. Except, Windows 8 will also be shipped to customers running normal computers where battery life is of no consideration, screen size is ample, and productivity and efficiency are more important than looking cool.

OK, let me be blunt. No one is going to write their business PowerPoint presentations on a smartphone. No one is going to design a new car on a tablet. No one will run protein folding on their smartphone. No one will play ArmA II on a smartphone. No one will use those little bricks of plastic diarrhea for anything more than updating the status of their miserable existence on some social network. Mindless drones worldwide will bend over for you, but they will not bring you any cash, because mindless drones earn less than smart people. If you think smartphones are the future rather than yet another complimentary piece of electronics for your household repertoire of pr0n devices, then you should probably go to a weapons store, buy a pistol, buy one bullet, chamber the bullet, cock the weapon, flip the safety pin down, aim for your already lobotomized forehead, and pull the trigger.

....if you are willing to use a touch interface for viewing content, underneath a solid film of peeled skin and grease, food stains and fingernail cuts, then you are officially a retard.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Maybe it’s the new NSA backdoors that are installed on the even numbered Windoze OSes that are causing the problem.

[Astronaut]

The author is obviously an Apple shill, or someone who hasn’t really used Windows 8. I am running it as my primary OS. Even in preview form, it is stable and secure. It is gorgeous to look at, and leapfrogs the competition. OS X is getting so tired. They keep grafting iOS elements into it, but there is nothing innovative about it. Microsoft should be getting huge points for changing the way desktop operating systems work. Windows 8 is easy to use and fun. Is it the same as Windows 7? No. If you hate change and cant adapt to new things, you might not like it. If you are excited by new and thrilling technology that challenges the competition, Windows 8 is for you.

[for-q-clinton]

I’m using the desktop version in the latest version of Win8. Not sure what he’s talking about. The biggest issue is the start button being gone. But I wonder if there is a registry key that will turn that feature back on. Right now I just pin my most used apps to the taskbar. And then use window key and then type the app name. Which is how I used the start button anyway.

The big issue right now is that the APPS need to be made for the metro UI and then it will rock.

[Dr. Sivana]

The author is obviously an Apple shill, or someone who hasn’t really used Windows 8.

Did you read the article? The author is more like a Windows XP shill. As far as future alternatives, he talks about 3rd Party hacks and Linux. He also doesn't want to talk to ANYbody who uses a Smartphone (I use a dumb-phone/iPod Touch combo, so I guess I am safe, for now).

I agree that OS X is getting tiresopme. I actually think they got the interface right way back at System 7.1 in the early 90s. Win XP does a decent rip-off of it, though it and Win 7 STILL doesn't calculate folder sizes on the fly without an add-in.

[Dr. Sivana]

If you hate change and cant adapt to new things, you might not like it.

That statement is meaningless without content. If we went from President Bush to President Obama, we get change. Likewise, if went from President Obama to President Palin, we would also get change. Most people would like one or the other, but not both. Usually, when this kind of remark is made, it is done in lieu of a real argument, just as it was with Obama.

MS also got the interface for Office wrong. Not because it is different, but because it groups unlike things with each other of the (often faulty) assumption that they are more commonly used. That punishes those who think in a linear manner.

[Notary Sojac]

If you hate change and cant adapt to new things, you might not like it.

"Change" and "New Things" are fine for breakfast cereals, or for wallpaper.

But for businesses with hundreds of employees, businesses that want to maintain productivity in their business applications and avoid retraining for retraining's sake......well, not nearly so fine.

[Mr. K]

"[If you hate change and cant adapt to new things, you might not like it. ...] Usually, when this kind of remark is made, it is done in lieu of a real argument, just as it was with Obama. "

WELL SAID!!!!

[upchuck]

Microsoft has gained this absolute majority by offering a simple and conservative design that has not changed in almost twenty years, with long-term support and consistency as its biggest selling points.

True. Until M$FT introduced the frigging Ribbon. Ugh!

FWIW, for those of you who are wandering around this bizarre interface wondering how to do something really simple like adding a row to an Excel sheet or creating columns in a Word document, help and serenity is here: Navigator Utilities. See right side of screen.

[Signalman]

I’ll stick with Windows 7.

[Lurker]

The biggest issue is the start button being gone.

What a brilliant move that is. Take the single most used feature of Windows and make it go away. I use that on my Vista machine about 300 times a week.

"Start", "Recent Items" and bingo, there it is.

[KC Burke]

The things about the Surface Tablet prequel announcement today that baffle me are that they are lauching a hardware product meant to compete with their primary customers, hardware companies that buy OEM copies of MicroSoft Operating Systems. How is that going to go over?

Are they so convinced that the hardware manufacturers couldn’t implement the tablet versions of the truncated WIN 8.0 and then follow up with PCs of all forms to do so as well?

[for-q-clinton]

I *think* they are doing that to encourage the move to metro UI. Like I said I wonder if there’s a secret way to turn the start button back on or if they will add it once it’s released...right now they want everyone focusing on Metro so remove it from the preview builds just to force people to check out the new UI.

[for-q-clinton]

According to Microsoft: “Suggested retail pricing will be announced closer to availability and is expected to be competitive with a comparable ARM tablet or Intel Ultrabook-class PC. OEMs will have cost and feature parity on Windows 8 and Windows RT.”

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2012/jun12/06-18announce.aspx

Also I guess it’s about as risky as Google buying Motorola. It appears the big OS makes need to make the hardware in todays market.

[for-q-clinton]

According to Microsoft: “Suggested retail pricing will be announced closer to availability and is expected to be competitive with a comparable ARM tablet or Intel Ultrabook-class PC. OEMs will have cost and feature parity on Windows 8 and Windows RT.”

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2012/jun12/06-18announce.aspx

Also I guess it’s about as risky as Google buying Motorola. It appears the big OS makers need to make the hardware in todays market.

[freedumb2003]

Is MS allowing/encouraging downloads of Win 8?

Despite my skepticism if the new tablet is an Apple killer, I have a desktop I could try Win 8 on.

[The Iceman Cometh]

At the doc for a case of multi-postitis? :)

Holy smokes!!! I gave up on posting this as I got an error message on my smart phone. I guess some errors aren't actually errors.

[Dr. Sivana]

My best guess is they want to be XBOX to Apple’s “Playstation”, and they need to make A tablet, originally sold at a loss, to be in the same arena. They are assuming monopoly power over the business desktop and don’t really care if they sell 7 or Metro for the next six years to that market. They get paid either way.

[KC Burke]

It is an obvious issue they owe little to the phone OEMs and their adoption of Android as promoted by the Open Handset Alliance since they displayed not interest in having a product ready in that field when the hardware and need was there.

They now see the small, non-Apple, tablets going Android and figure, we might as well do our own.

The question is will it be the great hit that like Zune...;-P

[Dr. Sivana]

The question is will it be the great hit that like Zune...;-P

There is room for widespread enterprise adoption. Adnroid is a nightmare to network/security administrators, and iOS doesn't have the mulit-user/security features desired, either.

If MS's offering can deliver on Win App compatibility and useability AND allow admin's the same tools they already use for remote laptops AND MS is willing to lose money on the whole deal for a few years like they did with Xbox, it doesn't have to be a Zune. It could be top tier.

[Astronaut]

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/download

Try it out. Be curious to hear what you think.