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Bozobub:
Good for you. Most users, however, do not use all that many keyboard shortcuts. You are also not going to be able to convince me that any of the changes to the Windows UI were anything but arbitrary frippery. There's simply no good reason for it (that anyone has been able to clearly elucidate)! Nor has a single person been able to explain why it was impossible to simply have a tablet version and a desktop version.
You quite obviously have not had to deal with (re)training every damn half-computer-illiterate employee in a company how to deal with these silly changes. It's exactly congruent to my example above re: AutoCAD (which I can tell you didn't google) and AutoDesk's switch to ribbon menus for no damn reason, against their own users' input; they actually asked, first, although I can't imagine why, since they completely ignored the answer. Can you think of a better way to alienate your userbase..?
Then there's the patent insanity of dumping the *entire* previous Windows development environment for Windows 8 "approved" programs. This puts a HUGE burden on smaller software developers, as they have to purchase and retrain their entire staff on completely new software, from beginning to end (except for w/e compiler/interpreter they are using); that's exactly why so many indie devs are refusing to support Win8, not to mention the bigger devs. I mean, even Google has publicly stated that they are not developing for Win8! This should be a clue, don't you think?
You still think Win8 is "smooth and polished"?
Again, just about all of the UI issues are solvable. I have no clue how they're going to fix the utter mess they've made of the devs' development chain, but that's not the end-user's direct problem. So it's entirely possible that M$ will be able to knock off some of these sharp corners to make a nice, polished product; they were able to do so with Vista, eventually, so why not? But just like Vista, M$ has already nearly guaranteed the early death of Win8, for similar reasons.
You don't have to take my word on this, occasional, it's pretty easy to research all of these problems on the net. Some good search strings on the subject:
- "windows 8 slow adoption"
- "windows 8 (problem OR issue)"
- "windows 8 development changes"
occasional:
--- Quote from: Bozobub on December 21, 2012, 03:29:23 AM ---You still think Win8 is "smooth and polished"?
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For people who are not developers and are ok with using a couple of keyboard shortcuts? Sure.
Bozobub:
Then you never did any of those google searches =3 .
occasional:
--- Quote from: Bozobub on December 21, 2012, 01:58:04 PM ---Then you never did any of those google searches =3 .
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Every OS has its problems, and the reason behind Windows 8's slow adoption is that people are afraid of change, and/or too ignorant to realize that Windows 8 is not that different than Windows 7.
Al_Sleeper:
Or are aware of "The rule of odd and even OS versions from Microsoft" :D.
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