Why Windows 8 is Microsoft


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Ok. As I talked to a coworker of mine (who works in our usability group), he sees this just fine. I don't want to mention what company I work for (it's in the top 10 companies to work for in the world...and it's not Microsoft) and he's that Windows 8 is a great platform. Me and him talked for hours today (after I made my first post in this thread) and he says that it's a great step into the right direction. Now of course you can take everything as a grain of salt as you have that right. I'm just talking about what we discussed.

He had a Windows 8 tablet and I noticed it while I walked by since I use Win8 as my main (and BF3 works perfectly on it). We got to the discussion of how you can have a tablet and huge monitor work together (since they have good multimonitor support). Where you can have the tablet as a dedicated app launcher and the monitor as the deskop or the app. And we talked mostly about what's good for businesses (as we work in a huge company). As the phone, and the pc work together and just make sense. I believe Microsoft going the correct path. Those who complain about a waste of space, just go ahead, people complained about the pixels in Windows Phone that aren't being used and I have no problem with it being "wasted"

Those who want to stay with Windows 7...that's fine, we'll see you with Metro style OS when Windows 10 is out. You'll conform just like XP, it will just take time. People don't like change, but if you don't change, you won't get better. Simple as that. KBAI.

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I have no idea how people are going to receive it but I do know people are mostly resistant to change. Based on that fact, I think a lot of people will not like Windows 8 at all.

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I just hope it doesn't require you to boot into Metro. Having to close it every time will get annoying pretty quick.

What do you mean by 'boot into Metro'? From everything I've seen, it replaces the start menu. You're not booting into and out of it - you just switch UIs.

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reading some of the comments i don't see how the new metro gui is more practical than the start menu.I have tried windows8 and i could not take it for more than a week.I just don't want to go through desktop and metro forever just to launch an application or switch to another.Is it too much to ask for..It's a PC not a phone.I think the metro being the new thing makes people's decisions on a false direction.If metro was before the start menu and taskbar we would see people screaming hallelujah when the start menu was created.

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I have no idea how people are going to receive it but I do know people are mostly resistant to change. Based on that fact, I think a lot of people will not like Windows 8 at all.

Well, you turned out to be spot on with that prediction.

Nicely done!

All Microsoft had to was make the new modern UI optional for desktops/laptops and they would have been fine. I paid for Windows 8, used it for a couple of months, and am now happily back with Windows 7. First time I've ever done that with ANY OS.

Bottom line: I don't want a touch-based system on a non-touch computer. Is that so hard for Microsoft to comprehend? One shouldn't have to install 3rd party programs or tweaks to bring back Windows 7 features.

Frankly, both Microsoft and Apple lack competent leadership at the present time.

Hey, maybe this could really be the year for Linux. Or maybe not. :)

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It's not touch based, and the start screen actually works etter with mouse and keyboard than touch.

Works with either but was designed for touch first. Mouse feels like an after thought.

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