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It seems that a lot of you really like the Emperor's new clothes. But then again you probably liked Vista a whole lot too. Personally, I don't see anything there.
Microsoft is a company that has a great technical staff and terrible marketing vision. They want to cash in on the app store concept because they can see the money that Apple is making, but people will never accept that type of attempted lock-in from Microsoft like they do with Apple.
Windows 8 is great under the hood, but the user interface is going to be terrible for 100s of millions of people to use.
Microsoft is a company that has a great technical staff and terrible marketing vision. They want to cash in on the app store concept because they can see the money that Apple is making, but people will never accept that type of attempted lock-in from Microsoft like they do with Apple.
Windows 8 is great under the hood, but the user interface is going to be terrible for 100s of millions of people to use.
Microsoft might be a 'me too' in this case, but it is Apple who is making huge profits by convincing people to pay well over the odds for not much at all.
www.infopackets.com/news/business/microsoft/2012/20121105_microsoft_sued_over_windows_8_user_interface.htm
If the only thing I'm doing with the Metro desktop is using it to start conventional, non-Metro programs, is there any reason to NOT bypass it at startup? Maybe it does other things I'm not yet aware of, or maybe I'm aware of all it does and nothing besides starting programs appeals to me. The more I play with W8, the more Metro feels like a nuisance.
I spend almost 100% of my time in desktop on windows 8. I think the metro start screen is a bit of an annoyance for the pc. No sensible person is going to drop hundreds of dollars on a small touch screen and hold their arm up all day using it.
I have been using Windows 8 for a month now and it is great for home use; however, because of the way the UI is rendered, some of the tools I used to use to create presentations and tutorials no longer work even in compatability modes (e.g. fraps). I am finding more and more "querks" with the system as a software developer, so now I use my laptop with windows 7 for developement and my Windows 8 machine to run my test and dev servers (mysql, db2, apache, tomcat, etc.). It still works great for that so far. If I were a business owner, I would hold off at least until the end of the Windows 7 support life before making the switch.
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