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W8 will annoy.....at first
OK - I've danced the W8 dance in many of the threads here already and frankly have had enough of the reactive negativity. I spend all day listening to IT staff and users moan about this and that and I'm in no mood to do it all again, countering arguments and trying to help people be a little more positive about what's happening.
It's clear the negative viewpoint can't be beaten so let me for once join the negative ninnies. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, right? Bear with me for a moment, normal service will resume shortly.
OK, so here's the thing. Assume I'm spitting fury about the 'useless' UI, supposedly enforced touch screen mentality (and no, CharliePalmetto, I have not read your well-written posts in other threads demonstrating just how W8 can work either way within Metro
), play- and social-media focused experience, differences with basic tasks such as shut down and all that jazz. Although I may appear to be reactionary and a little closed to the possibilities the point I will make with all this is that users on the whole WILL get annoyed with W8 and may consider not upgrading......at first.
Users like to do things they way they've always done them. Microsoft have always ensured that the basics of windows are the same so anyone familiar with any windows OS can get about easily. Users and admins don't want to waste time learning new interfaces or customising the experience. IT SHOULD JUST WORK FOR THEM! Right?
Hmmm....almost right (normal service resuming in 5, 4, 3............).
Although the point that Metro....ahem, sorry - IFKAM, is very different and touch oriented is a very good one the assumption is that users will hate it and that it'll be too much effort to learn for people and that there's not enough 'power' in the interface for the skilled users is not a reasonable line to take. As we know, assumptions make an ass....(you finish that one. I'm going to throw up in a corner for starting that sentence. Next I'll be talking about OS paradigm shifts *sigh*)
Fact is, some users and admins will hate it and stay hating it. We always get some of those. Most users will use it and go "eugh! Where's *this feature* how do I do *such a thing* why did they have to change it??" but do you know what? Like the Xbox users before them, it will become normal for them quite quickly and such complaints will melt away, like the complaints of XP's users did when they got used to the new start menu or the complaints of server 2008 admins did once they got used to administering that system.
Enough complaints will remain that Microsoft will consider dialling back a little on some apps and interface options, possibly up until W9. Fact is, they won't want to as they've produced an OS that's trying to unify computing devices and cope with the challenges of touch enabled devices. Although you may not want to see it, you're looking at the first step towards a POSSIBLE future of operating systems. Whether it is a success or not will be decided later as we get to grips (or not) with this new approach.
I don't like it much - I hate the W7 phone and don't get on with my Kinect-enabled tile dashboard thingy on my Xbox (voice command is cool though). Despite this I want W8 to be a success in that it changes our mind about how an OS should be. The way windows works is very, very old now. You can't tell me we should carry on doing the same damn thing forever because people have gotten used to it?
Bravo, Microsoft, for taking this risk and hoping some of us can get on board. Swallow the bitter little pills, ladies and gentlemen, and give it a go.
er....sorry for the length of that post. I'll shut up now.
It's clear the negative viewpoint can't be beaten so let me for once join the negative ninnies. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, right? Bear with me for a moment, normal service will resume shortly.
OK, so here's the thing. Assume I'm spitting fury about the 'useless' UI, supposedly enforced touch screen mentality (and no, CharliePalmetto, I have not read your well-written posts in other threads demonstrating just how W8 can work either way within Metro
), play- and social-media focused experience, differences with basic tasks such as shut down and all that jazz. Although I may appear to be reactionary and a little closed to the possibilities the point I will make with all this is that users on the whole WILL get annoyed with W8 and may consider not upgrading......at first.Users like to do things they way they've always done them. Microsoft have always ensured that the basics of windows are the same so anyone familiar with any windows OS can get about easily. Users and admins don't want to waste time learning new interfaces or customising the experience. IT SHOULD JUST WORK FOR THEM! Right?
Hmmm....almost right (normal service resuming in 5, 4, 3............).
Although the point that Metro....ahem, sorry - IFKAM, is very different and touch oriented is a very good one the assumption is that users will hate it and that it'll be too much effort to learn for people and that there's not enough 'power' in the interface for the skilled users is not a reasonable line to take. As we know, assumptions make an ass....(you finish that one. I'm going to throw up in a corner for starting that sentence. Next I'll be talking about OS paradigm shifts *sigh*)
Fact is, some users and admins will hate it and stay hating it. We always get some of those. Most users will use it and go "eugh! Where's *this feature* how do I do *such a thing* why did they have to change it??" but do you know what? Like the Xbox users before them, it will become normal for them quite quickly and such complaints will melt away, like the complaints of XP's users did when they got used to the new start menu or the complaints of server 2008 admins did once they got used to administering that system.
Enough complaints will remain that Microsoft will consider dialling back a little on some apps and interface options, possibly up until W9. Fact is, they won't want to as they've produced an OS that's trying to unify computing devices and cope with the challenges of touch enabled devices. Although you may not want to see it, you're looking at the first step towards a POSSIBLE future of operating systems. Whether it is a success or not will be decided later as we get to grips (or not) with this new approach.
I don't like it much - I hate the W7 phone and don't get on with my Kinect-enabled tile dashboard thingy on my Xbox (voice command is cool though). Despite this I want W8 to be a success in that it changes our mind about how an OS should be. The way windows works is very, very old now. You can't tell me we should carry on doing the same damn thing forever because people have gotten used to it?
Bravo, Microsoft, for taking this risk and hoping some of us can get on board. Swallow the bitter little pills, ladies and gentlemen, and give it a go.
er....sorry for the length of that post. I'll shut up now.
Posted by dl_wraith
Updated - 16th Aug
