I think windows 8 is not as bad as windows vista, I actually think vista was fine, ..
windows 8 is like windows ME ..
Amazing article, found it while looking for a way to bring the start menu back.
It is focusing on the new start screen:
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/windows-8-consumer-preview.html
This video shows the reaction of the average user's first impression when he goes and buy a pc that has windows 8:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4boTbv9_nU
Guy: now, who put this out ?
Tech Guy: Microsoft
Guy: they are trying to drive me to mac ?
Quotes from the article:
Microsoft is abandoning the most thriving computing market and rushing into the den of rabid wolves called the mobile market, where it expects to garner some extra points. It will be fighting against ARM champions, almost all exclusively running Linux. Does this sound like a good decision? Let me elaborate a little more. Would you sacrifice your entire user base in a rich and profitable tier for the sake of a feeble chance that you might hold a small share of a new market segment that has significantly lower profit margins? Sounds like stupidity to me.
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.
It's not the Start Menu. It's irrelevant. Start Menu can be replaced with any number of similar ideas. That's hardly the issue. The fact your entire screen must flip over for simple things like search, control panel or anything alike is the issue here.
This is inefficient. This is slow. This is counterproductive. This is counterintuitive. This is stupid.