I got a new Windows laptop recently and to be honest I'm thinking I need to just switch to Macs. Do the people designing the operating system even use their own product? To me it seems somebody at the top decided iPads were the new rave and directed the software people to make Widows 8 work like a tablet...sort of...but with Windows's tablet interface. But then when it was beta tested the "yes people" in the test group said "yes siree, this is great but although this is the best thing since sliced bread, I kinda still like the old windows". So they came up with a somewhat confusing way to toggle back and forth between tablet on a laptop and traditional windows.
Gone are well known minimize, maximize and close buttons on the top right corner. I've got dozens of "apps" and instances of Internet explorer open that I have no idea how to close. The address bar on web pages hides but at the bottom that I've only been able to accidentally get to.
My guess is Microsoft is in a perpetual state of panic feeling the computing world they once ruled is being (has been) taken over by Apple and Google and are trying to reinvent themselves to be like their competitors. Add to that a likely awkward corporate culture when objective and constructive input and feedback from associates is seen as disloyalty and sucking up is the most rewarded attribute broght to the table so everybody just does what they're told even if it a disjointed mess. Know, I've got a big imagination but I'm really disappointed with Windows 8 and just trying figure out why some of the most brilliant minds in computing who a decade ago litterally changed the world don't see how lacking this upgrade is.
I got a new Windows laptop recently and to be honest I'm thinking I need to just switch to Macs. Do the people designing the operating system even use their own product? To me it seems somebody at the top decided iPads were the new rave and directed the software people to make Widows 8 work like a tablet...sort of...but with Windows's tablet interface. But then when it was beta tested the "yes people" in the test group said "yes siree, this is great but although this is the best thing since sliced bread, I kinda still like the old windows". So they came up with a somewhat confusing way to toggle back and forth between tablet on a laptop and traditional windows.
Gone are well known minimize, maximize and close buttons on the top right corner. I've got dozens of "apps" and instances of Internet explorer open that I have no idea how to close. The address bar on web pages hides but at the bottom that I've only been able to accidentally get to.
My guess is Microsoft is in a perpetual state of panic feeling the computing world they once ruled is being (has been) taken over by Apple and Google and are trying to reinvent themselves to be like their competitors. Add to that a likely awkward corporate culture when objective and constructive input and feedback from associates is seen as disloyalty and sucking up is the most rewarded attribute broght to the table so everybody just does what they're told even if it a disjointed mess. Know, I've got a big imagination but I'm really disappointed with Windows 8 and just trying figure out why some of the most brilliant minds in computing who a decade ago litterally changed the world don't see how lacking this upgrade is.
Just what the world needs - another end-user who buys a system knowing nothing about it and is surprised when he doesn't know anything about how to use it!
"OMG!!! Things have changed!! Didn't anyone tell MS that technology is supposed to stay the same?" :lamo
And topping off the foolishiness are the predictions of doom for MS
Windows 8 Now Up To 7.41% Market Share, Windows 7 Still King
Windows Phone market share to more than double by 2017 | Microsoft - CNET News
Windows Phone Market Share Up Around The World, But American Sales Still Weak - Forbes
I think there's a reasonable expectation for subsequent releases of windows to build upon the familiarity of previous versions. If I buy a 2014 automobile I shouldn't have to learn how to drive a different way from scratch. That's just me.
Just what the world needs - another end-user who buys a system knowing nothing about it and is surprised when he doesn't know anything about how to use it!
"OMG!!! Things have changed!! Didn't anyone tell MS that technology is supposed to stay the same?" :lamo
And topping off the foolishiness are the predictions of doom for MS
Windows 8 Now Up To 7.41% Market Share, Windows 7 Still King
Windows Phone market share to more than double by 2017 | Microsoft - CNET News
Windows Phone Market Share Up Around The World, But American Sales Still Weak - Forbes
Unless they are doing a completely different interface, why change? Refine yes, change? What for? Unless the change makes it MORE functional, then change for changes sake is pointless. I really don't see much in Windows 8 that convinces me to change over to it.
I think Microsoft is transitioning from the PC to the tablet world of personal computing and that's what windows 8 is about. In fact, now that I think about it a big part of the new OS is touch screen functionality, that my laptop doesn't have.
Unless they are doing a completely different interface, why change? Refine yes, change? What for? Unless the change makes it MORE functional, then change for changes sake is pointless. I really don't see much in Windows 8 that convinces me to change over to it.
I think Microsoft is transitioning from the PC to the tablet world of personal computing and that's what windows 8 is about. In fact, now that I think about it a big part of the new OS is touch screen functionality, that my laptop doesn't have.
Excellent questions!!
Computing is moving to mobile devices.
Business customers, the group to whom MS makes most of its' sales to, has billions and billions and billions of dollars invested in the development of custom software applications that they developed in house. Just as you don't want to be required to go to your desktop in order to see your email, those business customers would be pleased if their staff were not tied to their desktop either. They could squeeze efficiancies out of their staff by moving apps onto mobile devices.
Right now, doctors and nurses see a patient, and write down the info they've collected onto the patients chart. Then they have to go to a desktop and enter that same info into a database. Imagine the productivity bonus that would occur if that info was just entered into the database immediately using a smartphone! In addition, because that info goes right into the database, it could be checked for possible problems (say if a prescription was handed for a patient who was already taking a medicine that interacts with it)
Now, the business could just write an app for the smartphone, but that would just be "re-inventing the wheel". After all, they *already* have an app! A Windows app! They just need it to get moved onto a mobile device.
Windows 8 provides a migration path for businesses that have in house developed custom apps that run on Windows. In order to move to a mobile device, all they have to do is re-write the part of their app that deals with the user interface so that it's compatible with a touch screen that is smaller than a desktop. All of the other code is re-usable.
This way, they don't have to re-invent the wheel; just a new hub cap
Makes sense. I do this to a point in my operation. I have a tower system at the office and I use a full bore Samsung series 7 tablet computer on the road. The reason I went the full bore route on the tablet was when I was testing the other tablets that didn't have a Core 3 or Core 5 processor and the memory they could multitask as efficiently as I needed. I run a gps splitter program serving signal to a mapping program, and a logging program, it is also running MS Access and Outlook, Excel and Explorer with 5 tabs. Most tablets when I was looking at couldn't run that load without having a heart attack.
I think Microsoft is transitioning from the PC to the tablet world of personal computing and that's what windows 8 is about. In fact, now that I think about it a big part of the new OS is touch screen functionality, that my laptop doesn't have.
Yes, touch screen using smaller screens. The app approach to computing. Also, the ability to sync apps across multiple devices. There are several apps I prefer to the desktop versions now, but it will switch back and forth between apps and the desktop seamlessly.
Do the people designing the operating system even use their own product?
Its obvious Microsoft is trying use their PC dominance to familiarize and make the public comfortable with their table interface. I'm watching a bunch of YouTube tutorial videos on Windows 8. So much of how Windows operates is second nature so its learning new ways to do a bunch of stuff.
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