Windows 8 will aggravate you to no end

[Cary Preston]

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/06/windows_8_microsoft_s_radical_operating_system_redesign_will_aggravate_you_to_no_end_.html

[Jennifer Walker]

Oy.

You know, I'm pretty easy-going about system changes. I'm not the type to lose their sh!t over Facebook changing it's interface (I actually like Timeline, for what it's worth), have used Macs & PCs in equal measure since before they became so similar, and have had no issues with my Vista laptop (that I got when my XP laptop bit the dust in spectacular kernal-error fashion just after Vista came out but before downgrades to XP became a standard option). I'm also quite happy with the few touchscreen devices in my life: my Droid smart phone and my Kindle.

Still, news like this makes me very antsy as I'm going to be replacing said laptop in the next few months and, yup, I think it's going to need to be before Windows 8 becomes standard (I'm waiting til I pay off my car in 2 months, or that's the plan). The screen shots of the new Start/Apps screen are garish and the popular opinion of the PC being an afterthought in Metro-land (i.e. tablet-standard, mouse workarounds) just sounds like more of a headache than I want right now.

(And, yes, I'd get a Mac but my desktop is a Mac mini and I like having both systems at home, so the laptop stays PC for now. Not that a Mac-top is in the budget, anyway.)

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Cary Preston <cwpr...@gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/06/windows_8_microsoft_s_radical_operating_system_redesign_will_aggravate_you_to_no_end_.html

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[Michael Bailey]

I am really looking forward to customers bitching about this at work and by "really looking forward to" I mean in that not at all kind of way.  When Vista came out you would have thought that Microsoft came into their house and violeted either them or a member of their family.  Like Jennifer I never had a problem with Vista but then again my computer usage at the time was not what I would consider intensive.  I never had a program that worked on XP but didn't work on Vista that I couldn't live without.  I really like Windows 7 and will stick with it as long as I am able to but eventually I may have to get something with Windows 8 and while I am sure there will be frustration I will eventually get used to it.

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[Race]

I stuck Win 8 on my old box (file server here we come!) just to see what was what.  I really wanted to like this OS.  Like really, really wanted to like it.  Gizmodo seemed rather positive about it.  The little videos I've seen here and there were kinda neat.

Then I starting messing with it.

Whoo boy.

I like the look.  Its clean and colorful.  Seems peppy too.  Everything snaps around nicely.  

Then I tried to restart the box.  Erm.  Where is the Start menu?  I couldn't find anything in either 'squares' mode or vanilla desktop mode (there is nothing in the lower left corner in desktop mode.  if you hover over it, the button to put it back in squares mode comes up.)

After this frustration, I couldn't be bothered to monkey with it anymore.  I'm willing to concede that this was mostly ignorance on my part.  But the fact that it was so darn frustrating to get something simple like that done really put me off.  As an aside, I ended up hitting the Power button on the computer case itself and this worked.  Go figure.

I dunno.  I'm still hoping beyond hope.

On Thursday, June 7, 2012 2:54:35 PM UTC-4, cwpreston wrote:

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/06/windows_8_microsoft_s_radical_operating_system_redesign_will_aggravate_you_to_no_end_.html

[Jennifer Walker]

I followed the link to the longer article (Fear and Loathing in Windows 8) and he talked about the shut down process and about how he had to do a web search to find shut-down instructions and there are TONS of them out there, with variations on what procedure to use. I don't think it should be that tough to turn anything off.

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[Cary Preston]

I think Microsoft got iPad-spooked and has gone off the deep end trying to reconfigure their user interface. There's no way I'd turn this loose on my parents; they have a hard enough time with Windows already. I don't like it at all (it's garish and even with smooth animation it looks clumsy) and I didn't like the widget idea when it was first introduced.
Another big point is that this is a consumer-oriented GUI. It doesn't suit a business PC at all.