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As far as I am aware, Microsoft are holding back the final look of the desktop version of Windows 8. That's according to CNet in any case. That said, they've had a lot to take on board the last few months feedback wise. I fear they have listened to very little of what customers are actually telling them.
Who then are Microsoft going to listen to? Their customers, or, the Widows 8 fanbois within Microsoft who are determined to ram this touchy feely one size fits all OS down everyones throats? It seems astonishing that Microsoft has taken the two disasters of Vista and Windows Phone and bundled both of them in to one operating system. Is this short sightedness, ideology or just plain stupidity from Microsoft? Time will tell, but I think it's already starting to look very bad.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, l think that my original statement "http://www.eightforums.com/general-...-biggest-ever-flop-far-bigger-than-vista.html" is still valid. Windows 8 is a tablet OS, no business will bother with it [even Microsoft have admitted that], desktop users seem to overwhelmingly dislike it, and, to cap it all, Apple have already cornered the entire tablet market.
The question then remains, who are Microsoft trying to sell this odd hybrid to? Certainly not me. I've been using Windows 8 on a desktop for months now and it's not been the most fluid experience. When will Microsoft realise, it's not what's under the bonnet I'm unhappy with, it's the user interface on a desktop computer. Still, Microsoft seem to be stone deaf to me as a customer and that is beginning to really annoy me. Microsoft sticking it's head in the sand about such concerns means this OS deserves to fail, and fail spectacularly.
As far as I'm concerned, there is still so much work to be done on Windows 8 to make it worthwhile for your average user to even consider upgrading to it that it's astonishing.
Please Microsoft, just remember this - "I am a PC, not a tablet."
As far as I am aware, Microsoft are holding back the final look of the desktop version of Windows 8. That's according to CNet in any case. That said, they've had a lot to take on board the last few months feedback wise. I fear they have listened to very little of what customers are actually telling them.
Who then are Microsoft going to listen to? Their customers, or, the Widows 8 fanbois within Microsoft who are determined to ram this touchy feely one size fits all OS down everyones throats? It seems astonishing that Microsoft has taken the two disasters of Vista and Windows Phone and bundled both of them in to one operating system. Is this short sightedness, ideology or just plain stupidity from Microsoft? Time will tell, but I think it's already starting to look very bad.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, l think that my original statement "http://www.eightforums.com/general-...-biggest-ever-flop-far-bigger-than-vista.html" is still valid. Windows 8 is a tablet OS, no business will bother with it [even Microsoft have admitted that], desktop users seem to overwhelmingly dislike it, and, to cap it all, Apple have already cornered the entire tablet market.
The question then remains, who are Microsoft trying to sell this odd hybrid to? Certainly not me. I've been using Windows 8 on a desktop for months now and it's not been the most fluid experience. When will Microsoft realise, it's not what's under the bonnet I'm unhappy with, it's the user interface on a desktop computer. Still, Microsoft seem to be stone deaf to me as a customer and that is beginning to really annoy me. Microsoft sticking it's head in the sand about such concerns means this OS deserves to fail, and fail spectacularly.
As far as I'm concerned, there is still so much work to be done on Windows 8 to make it worthwhile for your average user to even consider upgrading to it that it's astonishing.
Please Microsoft, just remember this - "I am a PC, not a tablet."
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 Pro 64-bit, Windows 7 SP1 64-bit, Windows XP SP3 32-bit
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Own build computer
- CPU
- Intel Core 2 E6600
- Motherboard
- Asus P5Q SE Plus
- Memory
- 8GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Nvidia GT240
- Sound Card
- Creative X-FI Sound Blaster Xtreme Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 24" Samsung Synchmaster 2494HM
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080 [1080p HDMI connection]
- Hard Drives
- Internal: OCZ Vertex 4 128Gb SSD, 2 x 400Gb SAMSUNG HD403LJ External: 1 x Iomega 2Tb, 1 x Iomega 1Tb,
- PSU
- Corsair AX750 [750w]
- Case
- Corsair Obsidian 550D
- Keyboard
- Wireless Desktop 3000 v2.0
- Mouse
- Microsoft Wireless Mouse 5000
- Internet Speed
- 120Mbps download/ 10Mbps upload Cable Connection via UPC Nederland