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Windows Experience Index, Windows Vista vs. Windows 8
Personalization in Vista vs. Windows 8.
Well, this is a nice change.
Bring back the Windows 8 Start menu, say 1.5 million Pokki downloaders
Which, in the scheme of Windows 8, would amount to 2.5% of users if we consider the full 60 million number.
(Source: tekswagger)
For everyone who echoes the “every other version of Windows” meme is good, have you actually owned every version of Windows up to now, at least back to 95?
ME and Vista both were vastly conflated, though they were ripe with issues, absolutely.
Living in the mentality that XP will live forever is foolish. Do you still use your first generation iPod from 2002? The laptop from that era? A desktop from that era? A television from that era?
In terms of Vista, the only point to be made there is that it’s been at least five years since that came out, many of the bugs were ironed out during that timespan, plus two new operating systems were released which mitigated the issues as well.
Now with 8, yes, the new environment is made for touch, but you know what? If you go into a store, many, many of the desktops and laptops now include touch. It’s amazing, the idea of hardware made for the OS.
Sidenote: If you did use Vista, ME, and you did indeed have issues, I can relate (at least with Vista) and don’t mean to undercut you if this sounds that way.
News Flash To Idiots Out There.
If you really think windows 8 is good, go fucking kill yourself
its shit.
Newsflash. It isn’t shit, and you need to get over yourself.
If you really hate 8, you know what, THE DESKTOP IS THERE! Pin the apps you need to the taskbar, use search by pressing Start then typing whatever you need, and you’re done.
I get sick of seeing this kind of crap on Tumblr.
I still say Metro is just Microsoft just giving desktop users the finger and telling us EXACTLY where to stick it so far as functionality is concerned. Metro — on the desktop — is a functionality step backwards by MANY generations… as evidenced by it basically being a complete ripoff of AOL’s interface circa 1996! Innovative? Hardly. Useful? Not on the desktop. Better to code for? Not really… So… what good is it again?
….right.
Do you honestly think Microsoft looked to AOL of ‘96 and came up with Metro from that? This isn’t even mentioning how different the two are in functionality and look truthfully.
:(
It’s not that Windows 8 isn’t pretty; it is in some ways more beautiful than OS X. The problem is it’s just gift wrapping the same old crap underneath in ‘Desktop’ view. The whole thing feels like a Frankenstein, especially the way there is no start button in the traditional desktop view and the fact that you have to go into Metro to access an inefficiently spaced out list of apps. If you are going to create something that is intended to be giftwrap, then make sure the tape you used to put together the giftwrap isn’t stuck to the actual gift when your users unwrap it. Make a clean divide. I don’t get how Microsoft engineers found this intuitive to use and I can’t believe there aren’t more ads and an entire microsite dedicated to teaching users how to navigate this uncomfortably restrictive feeling that the new Launch screen gives, as pretty as it is. That said, I like the sound effects.
The thing is, long term, there’s much more here than just “gift wrap,” but a whole new application development system, style of application, as well as the ability to finally use Windows on a touch device, or at least in a much more casual way.
For the time being, it’s limited because there are only so many apps, but give it time - plus some usability refinement - and Windows 8 will likely shine.
