Welcome to EightForums, Tanzanos. It's good to have you.
Just to let you know -> I'm a MS and Windows 8 fanboy. MS, in that it's been an innovative and successful worldwide U.S. corporation from day of inception. The market demand has changed to a touch UI. I'm also an 8 fanboy in that I think MS did an excellent job to create the Windows 8 OS to perform across multiple devices, including the desktop PC. Please name me one OS that performs efficiently this way.
What an excellent idea! Fisher Price, which is another well established, innovative, and successful company, may just as well adopt this UI for some of there toys. Children will eventually have to learn this modern way of computer navigation, so what better way than by means of an educational toy?
Again, welcome.
Thanks for the welcome
I too like windows but not all of them. I have been using windows since win 95. Win ME was a big let down. Win Vista? My son has Vista and so far he has not had any problems. win 98 and win 98 SE were OK. XP was excellent as was win 2000. As for win 7 I only moved to it from XP after Classic Shell came out. Classic shell gave me back what was removed from win 7. Windows 8 is a different beast altogether; I am a products designer with international patents to my name and I know that compromises are just that: Compromises.
To be more precise; When you want anything to suit all uses then you are basically compromising, and this results in almost no one being happy with the results. Most compromises tend to favour one side over the other: Win 8 is designed mainly for touch screen platforms and also for PCs. The problem is that anyone using a keyboard and mouse will feel restricted to say the least.
If win 8 had retained the OPTIONS of: Classic menus, Start Menu, remove METRO, then win 8 would have been very well accepted. There is no excuse for removing the very options that are familiar and do not compromise on the functionality of the OS. Third party developers moved in to offer these options and are extremely popular.
Why remove them in the first place unless MS wants to force us to follow a marketing strategy aimed at selling more tablets and smartphones at the expense of PCs?
I tried to get used to win 8 but it is so unintuitive that I totally gave up. Yes there are bound to be some PC users who like it as is but cross platform philosophy only ends up causing damage. An example is Games; The trend is to develop games for the console market and then port them over to PCs. Smartphones/Tablets/Consoles are basically inferior to PCs and this trend has killed PC gaming and or has decreased the Games potential in PCs due to the restrictions imposed by the consoles which the games were developed for.
If only MS just installed the options they removed!