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Windows UI 8 Lame ? Yes if we are FORCED to use it
It may be fantastic for users of smartphones and tablets, but seriously we don't do the same things on a notebook or desktop with a true keyboard and mouse (or touchpad), and on large screeens for precise works, having to work with the finger to leave traces on the surface is really not fine.
On a large display it is also VERY unfriendly. We should always be given the choice for NOT using it, and even if finger apps don't necessarily need a keyboard or mouse all the time, we still want to use our keyboard and mouse (for example to type something to search, instead of sliding/scrolling a long list of panes to see what we want, and can select and find MUCH more rapidly by just typing a few characters.
I really HATE the new tiled menu. It is unnecessarily slow. I also HATE the Windows 8 Applications store that does not include ANY search option (even if we have a finger only interface, there should exist a search option that pops up a tile with a search form, where we can type some characters on a touch screen, or just with the keyboard, if we have one installed and connected, and a preference allows us to use it by default instead of on the touch screen).
And yes the new UI is just a waste of space : we want to be able display much more on a larger screen, this is NOT a smartphone ! The UI should then be adaptive to display more tiles at once, and more GUI feature without having to scroll many tiles on long distances (with a mouse, the current UI requires MUCH more moves)
For an excellent tiled interface, look at the Google app store for Chrome/Chromium or for Android. Or at the App store from Apple. Or at the App store for Firefox. But for Windows, this is really LAME.
Even if we have a desktop available, all what is in the tiled menu should be also available in a classic Start menu.
Beside this, I really like the new Task manager which is more informative and rich in new features (... and NOT based on the new tiled interface !). It fits perfectly on a desktop or notebook screen (but people using touch screens on tablets or smartphones won't like it, they should have another more usable application).
But DO I REALLY NEED Windows 8 for just the new Task manager on my desktop or notebook, or even with a tablet connected to a keyboard (including the Microsoft Space tablet) when I really hate this ugly tiled interface ? No. I want to be able to disable it completely.
Additionally the new tiled interface is horribly bogous : apps are constantly crashing, even the simplest ones like the Free card games like Freecell or the Deminor (which also require now to register an XBOX Games account !). As these games in this interface are extremely slow to start, and crashing constantly, this just demonstrates that the tiled interface is just completely untested.
Microsoft has completely forgotten to test this interface, both technically (they crash and we return to the menu instantly), or in their performance (they are DAMN SLOW to launch !!!), or in usability.
An horrible design is also the need to click in a small corner of the screen to activate a side menu. When you have multiple displays and the mouse going from one display to the other (such as a TV), it is difficult to position precisely on this corner : the menu does not appear. Even with a finger on a touch screen, the active corner area ir really small. It is also not intuitive at all as nothing indicates that this corner is active (even if there's MUCH space to display at least an icon on any desktop or notebook display which are designed now for supporting HDTV resolutions).
All this design is stupid. I'll keep Windows 7, and I really don't need Windows 8, not even on a tablet (Android tablets are perfectly usable and will support connecting an USB keyboard and mouse without problem, and being able to use it as much as possible if it's connected, instead of the virtual on-screen keyboard which takes an huge space on screen) ! May be Microsoft will improve Windows 8 on the tablets, but for now Windows 8 fits ONLY the small screens of smartphones and nothing else.
For this reason, I just won't name this OS "Windows 8" but I'll lay down the 8 digit into "Windows Infinity" with the intended meaning "Windows Unfinished" !!!
I'll wait for "Windows Neuf" ('neuf" in French means "new" or "freshly built" ; it also means "nine", i.e. Windows 9). This won't happen before 2015. I easily predict the same future for Windows 8, as what already happened to Windows 3.1 (we had to wait for Windows for Workgroup 3.11), then to Windows 95 (we had to wait for Windows 98, Windows 98SE was just a minor update), then to Wndows NT 3.x (we had to wait for Windows NT 4 or Windows 2000), then to Windows ME (we had to wait for Windows XP) then to Windows Vista (we had to wait for Windows 7).
Microsoft NEVER learns ! Every 2 major versions of Windows is a COMPLETE failure, but just an early (and overpriced) beta version of the next OS (that Microsoft wants you to pay again to upgrade ! Microsoft IS COMPLETELY UNABLE to produce a new OS every 3 years, it just sends a new "major" version just to finance the continued development of another OS 3 years later.
Don't trust Microsoft for its software lifetime plan, its real schedule is ONLY a new OS every 6 years (plus 1 year for the first major service pack). Don't buy anything from the intermediate OS (never complete enough to be used on a prodessional desktop or notebook, or by content creators, but only by disinformed people).
On a large display it is also VERY unfriendly. We should always be given the choice for NOT using it, and even if finger apps don't necessarily need a keyboard or mouse all the time, we still want to use our keyboard and mouse (for example to type something to search, instead of sliding/scrolling a long list of panes to see what we want, and can select and find MUCH more rapidly by just typing a few characters.
I really HATE the new tiled menu. It is unnecessarily slow. I also HATE the Windows 8 Applications store that does not include ANY search option (even if we have a finger only interface, there should exist a search option that pops up a tile with a search form, where we can type some characters on a touch screen, or just with the keyboard, if we have one installed and connected, and a preference allows us to use it by default instead of on the touch screen).
And yes the new UI is just a waste of space : we want to be able display much more on a larger screen, this is NOT a smartphone ! The UI should then be adaptive to display more tiles at once, and more GUI feature without having to scroll many tiles on long distances (with a mouse, the current UI requires MUCH more moves)
For an excellent tiled interface, look at the Google app store for Chrome/Chromium or for Android. Or at the App store from Apple. Or at the App store for Firefox. But for Windows, this is really LAME.
Even if we have a desktop available, all what is in the tiled menu should be also available in a classic Start menu.
Beside this, I really like the new Task manager which is more informative and rich in new features (... and NOT based on the new tiled interface !). It fits perfectly on a desktop or notebook screen (but people using touch screens on tablets or smartphones won't like it, they should have another more usable application).
But DO I REALLY NEED Windows 8 for just the new Task manager on my desktop or notebook, or even with a tablet connected to a keyboard (including the Microsoft Space tablet) when I really hate this ugly tiled interface ? No. I want to be able to disable it completely.
Additionally the new tiled interface is horribly bogous : apps are constantly crashing, even the simplest ones like the Free card games like Freecell or the Deminor (which also require now to register an XBOX Games account !). As these games in this interface are extremely slow to start, and crashing constantly, this just demonstrates that the tiled interface is just completely untested.
Microsoft has completely forgotten to test this interface, both technically (they crash and we return to the menu instantly), or in their performance (they are DAMN SLOW to launch !!!), or in usability.
An horrible design is also the need to click in a small corner of the screen to activate a side menu. When you have multiple displays and the mouse going from one display to the other (such as a TV), it is difficult to position precisely on this corner : the menu does not appear. Even with a finger on a touch screen, the active corner area ir really small. It is also not intuitive at all as nothing indicates that this corner is active (even if there's MUCH space to display at least an icon on any desktop or notebook display which are designed now for supporting HDTV resolutions).
All this design is stupid. I'll keep Windows 7, and I really don't need Windows 8, not even on a tablet (Android tablets are perfectly usable and will support connecting an USB keyboard and mouse without problem, and being able to use it as much as possible if it's connected, instead of the virtual on-screen keyboard which takes an huge space on screen) ! May be Microsoft will improve Windows 8 on the tablets, but for now Windows 8 fits ONLY the small screens of smartphones and nothing else.
For this reason, I just won't name this OS "Windows 8" but I'll lay down the 8 digit into "Windows Infinity" with the intended meaning "Windows Unfinished" !!!
I'll wait for "Windows Neuf" ('neuf" in French means "new" or "freshly built" ; it also means "nine", i.e. Windows 9). This won't happen before 2015. I easily predict the same future for Windows 8, as what already happened to Windows 3.1 (we had to wait for Windows for Workgroup 3.11), then to Windows 95 (we had to wait for Windows 98, Windows 98SE was just a minor update), then to Wndows NT 3.x (we had to wait for Windows NT 4 or Windows 2000), then to Windows ME (we had to wait for Windows XP) then to Windows Vista (we had to wait for Windows 7).
Microsoft NEVER learns ! Every 2 major versions of Windows is a COMPLETE failure, but just an early (and overpriced) beta version of the next OS (that Microsoft wants you to pay again to upgrade ! Microsoft IS COMPLETELY UNABLE to produce a new OS every 3 years, it just sends a new "major" version just to finance the continued development of another OS 3 years later.
Don't trust Microsoft for its software lifetime plan, its real schedule is ONLY a new OS every 6 years (plus 1 year for the first major service pack). Don't buy anything from the intermediate OS (never complete enough to be used on a prodessional desktop or notebook, or by content creators, but only by disinformed people).
Posted by PhilippeV
Updated - 21st Dec
