Windows 8 looks like it was made for a child!

matrix2003 · July 11, 2012, 01:12:55 PM

Seriously! The GUI looks awful. What is Microsoft thinking? I don't own a tablet and I have no intentions of getting one. Sooooo why would I upgrade to an interface that I really can't use the way it was designed to be used? The Start button is being replaced by" the Metro UI" which will work with keyboard combinations and a mouse. (you can't turn it off) The list of changes seem minimal, yes it boots faster but I don't see anything yet that stands out as amazing.

This build may be good for business, or on a tablet but offers little to home users on a desktop. With people reporting they hate it already, this sounds like Vista all over again.

Oshyan · July 11, 2012, 03:07:21 PM

I agree with pretty much everything you said. I have no plans to upgrade. I'm hopeful MS learns their lesson and Win9 strikes a better balance of desktop vs. tablet approaches.

- Oshyan

rcallicotte · July 11, 2012, 03:56:14 PM

Thanks for the information. Another reason not to upgrade.

cyphyr · July 11, 2012, 04:39:48 PM

If they can produce a tablet I can use TG and Photoshop on (the windows tablet release announcement did mention Photoshop) then I may be interested in W8. But any tablet suffers from the assumption that it's owner/user (wait till you just rent your tab and therefore don't own it or it's content ...) will want to do most of their stuff on the web so I'm not holding much store in that aspect yet. I'm more interested in using a tablet in a field ... for a week ... in a tent!
Till that day I'm very happy with W7
Richard

TheBadger · July 11, 2012, 08:35:00 PM

lol
It seems that using a computer for anything other than, sharing every pointless moment of ones life, playing games, and watching porn, is on the way out.
The simple fact is that fewer and fewer people use a computer at home for any useful purpose. And so, the companies are going to stop marketing to useful people.

Mac, PC, a hole in the head. It doesn't matter. Buying off the shelf is probably close to being over for any one who wants a computer that does something useful.

Walli · July 12, 2012, 03:42:25 PM

what useful work would you do with a computer at home? Seriously, I really was upset because they sold people totally overpowered computers, just for checking email, surfing the web and typing a letter in word from time to time.
So what is happening now is probably something, that should have happened long ago ;-)

But - when it comes to workstations, I am also sceptical. I think I would like a simple, super fast booting UI, so that when I just want to check mails or surf the web I don´t have to fully power up. But when I want to work, then I want to work and not play senso.

masonspappy · July 12, 2012, 03:57:44 PM

Quote from: Walli on July 12, 2012, 03:42:25 PM
what useful work would you do with a computer at home?

Terragen, xFrog, BLender for starters.

Pentagular Dark · July 12, 2012, 04:55:58 PM

Quote from: Walli on July 12, 2012, 03:42:25 PM
Seriously, I really was upset because they sold people totally overpowered computers, just for checking email, surfing the web and typing a letter in word from time to time.

I feel the same, I am literally the only person who does anything productive in my house with computers, but I have the worst computer.

Walli · July 13, 2012, 03:26:43 AM

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Terragen, xFrog, BLender for starters.

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thats an exception ;-) Thats workstaion users

Seth · July 13, 2012, 04:25:04 AM

Battlefield 3, Call of Duty, Crysis 3, etc...

Zairyn Arsyn · July 13, 2012, 05:45:31 AM

there is only one new feature that interests me, the taskbar can extend onto addition monitors.

ehhh... ill skip this one, wait for the next one.

Seth · July 13, 2012, 09:27:13 AM

I use ultramon to extend my taskbar. But would be cool to have it right in windows. Everybody sound very disappointed. Are there really no good new stuff in this new version ?

rcallicotte · July 13, 2012, 10:54:20 AM

Yes.

And I couldn't do the Lightwave stuff I do with a Kindle or iPad.

Quote from: Seth on July 13, 2012, 04:25:04 AM
Battlefield 3, Call of Duty, Crysis 3, etc...

Matt · July 13, 2012, 02:17:09 PM

I'm actually looking forward to the Windows tablets that were demo'd recently. My biggest complaint with the iPad and its Android competitors is that they didn't have a "real" full-blown OS, not even as an option. If the iPad could run OS X I would have bought one. It looks like Microsoft understands that. Now, if Windows 8 makes using their tablet more enjoyable for tablet-like things *and* I can still switch to the desktop for traditional apps, that sounds great to me.

Matt

TheBadger · July 13, 2012, 03:26:24 PM

Quotewhat useful work would you do with a computer at home? Seriously, I really was upset because they sold people totally overpowered computers

Sorry, I guess I meant workstation. I think of all towers as being, or supposed to be, workstations.

But the real problem is that if people stop buying "over powered" systems, than the cost for good desk tops will sky rocket! The reason computers have been so affordable is because everyone is buying them.

But tablets are even more practical than laptops for ordinary people. So thats where all the investments of time and energy are going. Once tablets can stand alone without needing a "mothership", well thats it then, game over for affordable desktops that are useful.

Then the question becomes, can you fit 12cores into an ipad. Probably not soon
So like the OP said, its all getting dumbed down, for children.

I realize that I'm painting broadly, and that it could all end up working perfectly in the end. Its just my thoughts on it.

QuoteI'm actually looking forward to the Windows tablets that were demo'd recently. My biggest complaint with the iPad and its Android competitors is that they didn't have a "real" full-blown OS, not even as an option. If the iPad could run OS X I would have bought one.

I agree. Its like they want to control how users use their products so much, that you cant really use them at all. Apple has gotten really bad at this, its kind of scary.
If MS gets it right, they will have a big advantage in the tablet market.

The best thing I saw of the new tablets from MS, is the tablet pen and a full version of photoshop. There is a photoshop version for Ipad, but no pen, and the photoshop looks striped down.

(I thought that photoshop was a full version for the MS tablet. Does anyone know for sure?)

Every time I walk by an Ipad in the store I stop. I want one, there soooooo pretty. THey just don't seem useful. And every time I compare prices between a mac and a PC, I want to buy a PC. But then I read threads like the OPs here, and I pass on the PC because of windows.