@variance:
OK so no one is EVER going to sit at their desk and glom their sticky fingers all over their expensive touchscreen when a mouse has been the tool of choice for decades. Its just not what people want to do and we don’t care that microsoft wants us to. Voice activation sounds about as fun as talking to a voicemail robot. No dice.
Now, to get these “features” we have to sacrifice all the basic, simple things that people have been taught to use ever since windows 95. The point of using a computer is not the OS; it’s the word processor, the spreadsheet, the internet browser, and in some cases the weird programming or scientific/engineering applications that some of us call work. If the OS gets in the way of getting that work done we don’t want it. The OS should be like makeup on a pretty girl - you shouldn’t even notice its there if its doing its job right.
Windows HATE gets a fail.
You still aren’t giving specifics. I just helped a client to map a drive and they were using Windows 8. If I knew the windows powershell command off the top of my head, it would have been done in seconds. Instead, it took about a minute, and most of that was identifying the path of the network share.
The lack of a Start button did not prevent my ability to get it done, nor delay the resolution noticeably, if at all.
Voice dictation has come a long way and works pretty smoothly. Not what I remember back in the 90s, which was pretty hilarious in the unintentional results that came up.
I’m not what “features we have to sacrifice” to use a mouse. It’s there. The keyboard - also there. There is realistically no functional difference between operating the way you would in Win95 in Win8. I’ve done it dozens of times at this point. I still don’t see where the “OS is getting in the way”. If I can do it jumping in blindly, and a self-described “computer illiterate” user can do it in an hour, I don’t believe there is an issue here except that people want to make it one.
So tell me again….where is the issue? You say you have an issue with the OS getting in the way of reaching say, a Word Processor. I can give you probably a dozen ways to reach it. How in the world do you blame the OS when the User can’t find his way around when there are literally more ways to reach it than ever before, including how it was accessed previously???
@MrMalachiCrunch:
Jermofoot, corporate people who use windows for productivity are the ones complaining about windows 8. Pick up a non-microsoft sponsored trade journal on IT and read what users are saying, they hate it.
Corporations don’t like upgrading operating systems because it often breaks older software that works just fine. There is a reason why lots of companies still use older versions of an OS besides just being lazy.
You think windows 8 is all that, try reading some articles on it from people not on the microsoft payroll…
This site is a bit whacked but I recommend it for IT and strangish science news…
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
variance hit the nail on the head. People don’t want to relearn the applications they have been using for years just to do the same job. I started in IT BEFORE windows… I was a power user of windows 3.11, and have to write software for microsoft operating systems using microsoft programming tools. Trust me, change is not a welcome thing when it is forced on you.
You are right and that is a valid point. However, that is not relegated to Win8 alone: all previously releases of Win O/S had the same compatibility issue with programs designed for the preceding release. There are some compatibility approaches to this: run in different modes on the current O/S, install a virtual O/S, but nothing is perfect. Additionally, the number 1 factor in upgrading isn’t user experience or compatibility, it’s BUDGET, guaranteed.
As far as not updating - same thing, many people are on XP and never moved to Vista or 7. The majority of our clients are this way, and are honestly waiting way too long to implement and upgrade to a newer O/S. There is a very real security issue here. Software changes (and should) just as well…yet where are the complaints? I feel it’s unfairly directed at MS because people are lazy, impatient, and think everything should just automatically work. Expectations are completely wrong. But that’s beside the point.
I need specifics on why people claim it’s so terrible. Saying it does not make it so, and so far the few complaints I’ve run into all come down to a user doesn’t take the time to familiarize themselves. AN HOUR. Anyone that purchases any utility, electronic, tool, vehicle, etc. and does not spend at least a cursory amount of time reading a manual or orienting themselves are just being irresponsible.
I will give MS is due criticism, however I don’t think it’s here.
