video Videos of Average people using Windows 8 for the first time.

[+Warwagon MVC]

In this thread, it will just be videos from youtube of average people seeing and using Windows 8 for the first time. Feel Free to to add videos.

[funkydude]

From all the threads you keep making I get the impression that you like Windows 8.

[Skin]

can we get some reactions from folks who wern't born at the tailend of WW2?

[+Warwagon MVC]

can we get some reactions from folks who wern't born at the tailend of WW2?

Post em if you can find them.

[killerninja]

golly :)

[ThePitt]

its ANNOYING and FRUSTRATING like that. Those videos shows EXACTLY how the ppl feels. Only a fanboy or someone who works for m$ might say that this is the future or the new hipster (aka loser) saying "grow up".

[killerninja]

its ANNOYING and FRUSTRATING like that. Those videos shows EXACTLY how the ppl feels. Only a fanboy or someone who works for m$ might say that this is the future or the new hipster (aka loser) saying "grow up".

yeah but a pig farm houses no more than 2 spanish frogs

[HawkMan]

Itt people pretending to use a beta OS with a brand new UX and no tutorial or guide on how to use it.

Kind of like when you first hnd someone an android phone where you did the setup so they don't get the first use tutorial.

[Skin]

Kind of like when you first hnd someone an android phone where you did the setup so they don't get the first use tutorial.

It's a lot more simplistic... anyone can get some person to sit there and wave the cursor around the screen and slick random buttons while confusedly asking 'what they are doing' and 'where do they go'. it does little to show real life and more to outline how people will try and smear anything they just don't want others to like.

In contracts to the older folks above, I loaded win8 on a test machine for some mates, and within a few minutes of poking around they found most of the basic commands and flipped back and forth to the desktop. They aren't hippsters nor 'geeks' by any stretch of the imagination.

What smacks from the above and in other on-line videos like this, is the people click the SAME buttons for like 10 times in a row and expect it to do something else... shameful the way it makes folks out to be dolts in the zeal to hate on windows.

That said, I really dislike the new windows version, and the layout.

[PsYcHoKiLLa]

The guy who did the first video also did one with his dad using it...

[.Neo]

Like said in the article on the main page: I honestly have no idea whatsoever why Microsoft expects people to learn all these gestures, keyboard shortcuts and whatnot by heart. How the hell is anyone supposed to know that you can just type away to search Start unless they're being told via via? It's a usability nightmare for no apparent reason. On iOS there's a "Slide to unlock" message so people at least have a clue as to what needs to happen, why can't Microsoft do the same with Windows 8?

[MelFranks]

At 2:45 in the second video the guy says "you're on your own!".

Actually were this the release version he would not be on his own.

It's not like Microsoft is going to release a new operating system with a new UI and say "good luck!".

[Wyn6]

What's funny is how some of you believe that MS will do away with the tutorials, overlays, and hints they've used for their software and OSes in the past.

Let's see... we've developed this entirely new paradigm in computing that many people have never seen before. What next?

I know! Let's NOT show them how to use this completely new system!

Brilliant!

[Stoffel]

The only thing you have to tell people is that the four corners do something.

With that alone they should be able to figure it out.

And I'm sure MS will include a tutorial that will be easy accessible after first start up

[Jan Veteran]

Like said in the article on the main page: I honestly have no idea whatsoever why Microsoft expects people to learn all these gestures, keyboard shortcuts and whatnot by heart. How the hell is anyone supposed to know that you can just type away to search Start unless they're being told via via? It's a usability nightmare for no apparent reason. On iOS there's a "Slide to unlock" message so people at least have a clue as to what needs to happen, why can't Microsoft do the same with Windows 8?

The lockscreen should pop up and down after a few seconds (on WP7), but it hasn't been implemented on Windows 8 yet.

[.Neo]

It's not like Microsoft is going to release a new operating system with a new UI and say "good luck!".

Obviously there are going to be tutorials included, but it still leaves the question why you need to learn these things by heart and why the interface doesn't give you any hints (such as buttons, text etc.).

The lockscreen should pop up and down after a few seconds (on WP7), but it hasn't been implemented on Windows 8 yet.

That still leaves the different hot corners, different ways of accessing charms with different functions, type to search etc. There is a incredible amount of empty space everywhere in Metro, just use it to put some basic interface elements.

[bandit_liberty_rumble]

The only thing you have to tell people is that the four corners do something.

With that alone they should be able to figure it out.

Probably true. And someone should really make a video showing a regular person using Windows 8 once she's been told what the corners do.

Interestingly enough, the kid (reluctantly) giving instructions in the first video hasn't even understood himself that the right corners bring up the charms bar. He is somehow under the impression that you just have to move the cursor into the right edge and wiggle it around there. Only by accident does he activate the charms bar.

[ShareShiz]

can we get some reactions from folks who wern't born at the tailend of WW2?

exactly -_-

also guy in 2nd video is going from XP to Windows 8... bet the fool doesnt even know about aero.

there is a reason why people are still using XP.. its because they are old and cant keep up with technology. so when something new comes their way they think holy crap what is the alien technology.

people should stop making retarded threads about how bad windows 8 is.. because its not -_-

[+Ryster Subscriber²]

How the hell is anyone supposed to know that you can just type away to search Start unless they're being told ...snip

Yeah, it's not as if it's been that way since 2005 (Vista release) after all. /s

...but it still leaves the question why you need to learn these things... snip

Because the ability to use a brand new (i.e. not just an evolution of the previous version) operating system doesn't just come naturally through some kind of genetic memory, it has to be learned. Did you instantly know how to use all the features of Windows 95 (i.e. where the desktop/startmenu/taskbar paradigm began)?, or the iPhone?, or Android?, etc. The answer you're looking for is no, you had to learn. Windows 8 is no different. The difference between now and back in 1995 though is that this time we'll have lots of video tutorials, how-to and quickstart guides, as well as educational advertisements.

[Dot Matrix]

How many times do these videos have to be posted?

[rajputwarrior]

Yeah, it's not as if it's been that way since 2005 (Vista release) after all. /s

doesnt' mean most people know that. when you ask an average person to hit start and look up something. most of the time said person will use their cursor, click the search area and start typing because that is how everything else in the computer world works with an input box.

[Dot Matrix]

I wanna see a video of an 10-30 year old using Win 8 for the first time... Then we'll talk.

[.Neo]

Yeah, it's not as if it's been that way since 2005 (Vista release) after all. /s

There's a HUGE difference: In Windows Vista and 7 you have a search box, in Windows 8 it's gone. You think most people will just assume the functionality is still there even when the box isn't visible anymore? Guess again.

Because the ability to use a brand new operating system doesn't just come naturally through some kind of genetic memory, it has to be learned. Did you instantly know how to use all the features of Windows 95, or the iPhone, or Android, etc. The answer you're looking for is no, you had to learn. Windows 8 is no different.

You really shouldn't snip my reply like that because you're pulling it completely out of context. :rolleyes: I have nothing against learning a new OS, I have something against having to learn all these things by heart (as I wrote down). Microsoft removed all the interface elements pointing to these essential features.

[bandit_liberty_rumble]

Yeah, it's not as if it's been that way since 2005 (Vista release) after all. /s

The difference being, that there used to be a visible search box and a blinking cursor (not that I necessarily have a problem with this specific change):

I wanna see a video of an 10-30 year old using Win 8 for the first time... Then we'll talk.

Watch the ending of the first video, and you'll see that the kid hasn't fully understood the hot corner concept.

[Azies]

Oh come on, how are people supposed to know that they use it like that, it's a consumer preview, and Microsoft will likely go on a usability PR Campaign near launch.