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Re: Not sure what they were thinking Posted by Snowmobile [Email]  (#686)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Snowmobile) on Mon, 14 Oct 2013 05:11:49
In Reply to: Not sure what they were thinking, JerseySaab  [Profile/Gallery]
, Sun, 13 Oct 2013 20:23:05
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It is true, Windows 8 is the first significant ui change since 95. I remember back then, there was similar concern about the ui and I was a very late adopter of 95. I thought the start menu was very kludgy. Overall, over time, I have grown to prefer 95 over 3.1, but it took a while!
We have 8 on one machine that sees light use. I think it actually works pretty well in non-business situations, and in particular, the "cell phone" like interface is there so it will work well on modern hardware. Let's face it, hardware is changing. Fewer and fewer people (even in business) are buying desktops. Many desktop users are finding a laptop (with perhaps some docking setup) as functional as a desktop, but with increased portability, and many people are using tablets of some form nowadays. Having a consistent interface across hardware makes some sense... Especially when there is so much convergence between hardware types: laptops now have touch screens, so for many, one of those running 8 replaces a tablet and desktop!
What drives me crazy much more than the ui changes in 8 are ui changes in the Microsoft *business* software. For the most part Microsoft Word and Excel were worked out in user interface and even feature set by about 1996, certainly by 2000... I still find it annoying to not have a standardized menu bar in the newer versions. But they want to do away with manu bars for the same reason 8 is more cell phone like: menu bars don't work well with fat fingers on touch screens. But to me that is tunnel vision: sure the os needs touch now... but there is little or no benefit in using touch in these business apps (Powerpoint aside) - some apps need pointing precision! Many do! A menu system is often very efficient if you're flicking a mouse around anyway.
I also agree that I find the increased hardware linked "security" and "app store" aspect of 8 distasteful - Micro$oft wants to rent you software now vs sell it to you... and for about the same price, but per year! But I suspect one can clean a lot of that stuff up...
Anyway, I guess my point was, I was an early adopter of 8 (with that online deal), and though I prefer 7 for my real work, I don't really have a big problem with 8... once you flip over to the desktop view, it's pretty much business as usual.
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