Posted on 05/06/2013 11:41:57 PM PDT by zeestephen
Microsoft is preparing to reverse course over key elements of its Windows 8 operating system, marking one of the most prominent admissions of failure for a new mass-market consumer product since Coca-Cola's New Coke fiasco nearly 30 years ago. "Key aspects" of how the software is used will be changed.
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I have it, tried it for three days, never used it again.
I can do everything faster and with less effort by using my mouse, and there are no greasy finger prints on my screen.
Good.
It’s insane to change Windows on the PC to make it look like tablet and make it a touchscreen. pure idiocy
they could have just done a windows 8 version for the tablet and one for the PC.
I paid $5 for Start8 from Stardock just so I could get the start button back. Best $5 I ever spent.
Back in October of last year, MSFT CEO Steve Ballmer said that Windows 8 was their “Bet the company moment”.
Actually, the real “Bet the company moment” is what they’re going to unveil as the ‘fix’ to the abortion known as Windows 8. They massacre this one, and it might be the last straw.
The company I work for is still standardized on Win2k/XP/2003 Server and a pretty old implementation of MSSQL. That ancient back office server-ware runs fine, for the most part. Personally, I hope Apple makes a move to dominate the front office OS, but I know they won’t. They’re sort of winning it now without even trying anyway...
You could have saved $5 with Classic Shell:
I think the cloud and all these tablets and smart phones are killing Microsoft. I have Windows 8 machines and they run fine. It took a little getting used to but everyone in my house use Windows 8 without many complaints.
I am overloaded with computers.
I came to the Philippines with a Toshiba laptop that I still use.
Some young expat hocked a newer Toshiba with me.
Some months ago, another guy hocked a Dell laptop with me.
Last week we bought an I-Pad and I have installed Wi-Fi internet.
I was very angry yesterday....With all the computers, my 2 yr old wants to do his U-tubes on MY computer.
I have threatened to sell the I-Pad. That has shut them up.
My description of Windows 8 is as follows. Take every crappy website flash animation. Take every poorly designed icon from any smartphone and ipad. Take a bottle of red, yellow, and blue tempara paint. Chew up every one of them, wait 5 minutes, then vomit the results on a computer moniter.
I have used microsoft windows nearly every day of my carreer. I still keep 2 of my laptops funning XP Pro and they run like champs. I have very expensive hardware (CNC machines, plotters, digitizers, scanners) that are not supported in the 64 bit realm. My newest powerhouse is Windows 7 64bit that I love for my desktop engineering software.
My friend bought Windows 8 and what a disaster. There is nothing intuitive about it. Since Windows 95 all versions have remained basically the same. Windows 7 defaults changed to a ‘prettier’ look but the option was still there to go back to windows classic lay out.
What they ought to do is just have two versions. Touchscreen windows 8 and workstation windows 8. OR at least have an obvious option on their horrendous opening screen. Hopefully it ends up like Dominos pizza. Admit your had a bad product. Work hard to fix it. Then come out with a better product. And yes. I amd not ashamed to admit that Dominos makes great pizza now.
IMO, Microsoft looks like a typical Soviet monopoly. No real innovation since earlier 1990s. They are busier to buy and close any competitor than to bring good product.
If you have to use Windows 8, a few shortcut keys like Win+X, Win+I and the old standbys, ALT+4, ALT+TAB can save a lot of frustration.
What about “Bob”?
Microsoft can shove its “learning curve”. This is one of those apologies that ain't: I'm sorry you're too stupid to learn our new product... BS.
You're new product is a POS. I refuse to waste my time compensating for a deeply flawed product. Insulting me for your failure to anticipate the market isn't going to make things right.
It seems that Microsoft is the one far behind the steep learning curve of failing to understand its market.
Your company really ought to look at an upgrade. 2K/XP is wildly out of date from a security perspective, and while 2003 is decent for the server side, 2008 R2 brings significant architectural improvements, as well as improving security there as well. Fewer and fewer tech support engineers and companies even know how to support those systems, much less use them frequently. Five years ago it might have been prudent to still have XP and 2003 (and unless there’s some horrifically-specific inhouse app built on 2000 you should have dumped that even before then), but it’s a completely false savings at this point. Bump your deskside environment to Win7; you won’t regret it, and upgrade to 2008 on the server side. Absolutely migrate off of the old SQL; the improvements there are really huge, and again the security issue is critical. That environment should be stable for at least the next 5-7 years.
I hope Microsoft also does a u-turn on Outlook Express! The Outlook format is a pita!
There aren’t enough adjectives to describe the level of suck in Windows 8. I installed classicshell after 5 minutes.
That was a great movie!
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