What problem does Windows 8 solve?

Summary: Windows 8 is intended to be Microsoft’s platform that does everything for everyone. The problem is it doesn’t solve anyone’s problems, so who will need it?

As Microsoft gets Windows 8 ready for the Consumer Preview coming shortly I am spending a lot of time thinking about the next OS from Redmond. There is a lot to consider given its multiple personalities. It’s a desktop OS, mobile OS, tablet OS, and touch OS all rolled into one. Rather, all rolled into multiple SKUs depending on the hardware involved. I admit to feeling more uneasy about Windows 8 the more I consider what problem(s) it intends to address. Fact is I just don’t see any.

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A Guy

 

[area 66]

May have changed by now though - after 50 years.

Yes it change, if you go to a private high school around here, you need a Notebook, it's a requirement, I remember quite few years ago, I have a software name Mario Typing tutor in my PC, was quite fun to play and learn how to type at same time. ( I think it was a DOS software, it was on a floppy for sure )

 

[whs]

Interesting. Times really have changed. I am getting too old for this - LOL.

 

[stefalopod]

I went to a junior high that taught typing and required students to bring their own typewriters!

I'm not that old. It's kind of an anachronism because this was in Mexico in 1994. You might scoff at the education, but I did learn to type very well. It was also the only school I ever went to (after an assortment of public and private schools in the US) that required students to memorize the periodic table of the elements and the names and capitals of all the countries that are bigger than a pinhead on a ditto-machined paper map of every continent

Also, it was the only school I ever went to that required students to learn how to code in the computer lab class. Go Q Basic!

 

[tcman50]

slightly off topic but same concept?

Schools are changing out all their digital clocks and going back to regular dial faced clocks because of the fear that kids will become lazy and won't be able to read regular clocks anymore if required to in the future.

TC :shock:

 

[whs]

slightly off topic but same concept?

Schools are changing out all their digital clocks and going back to regular dial faced clocks because of the fear that kids will become lazy and won't be able to read regular clocks anymore if required to in the future.

TC :shock:

That is funny. With digital clocks they learn how to read numbers - if they know how to read at all.

A recent study conducted in Jersey City showed that 30% of the 9th graders could neither read now write. I guesss for them it does not make any difference what clock they hang up.

 

[BarnabasSackett]

that required students to memorize the periodic table of the elements and the names and capitals of all the countries that are bigger than a pinhead on a ditto-machined paper map of every continent

A school that expects actual learning instead of just test passing. How unusual.

Back in high school I had to learn the periodic table in chemistry class but there were only four elements then: earth, wind, fire and water.

I didn't have to know all the countries but I had to be able to place all fifty state names in the right places on the map, spell them and their associated capitals. Now I deal with college students who don't realize that Chicago is not a state or that France is across the ocean.

 

[GMan]

Ignorant people are easier to control. Have you ever seen the admissions test to an Ivy league school from the 1890s? I have and let me tell you, if 10,000 people today signed up to this website, still not one would be able to answer anything, including myself.

Population ignorance is by design, unfortunately.

 

[BarnabasSackett]

Ignorant people are easier to control. Have you ever seen the admissions test to an Ivy league school from the 1890s? I have and let me tell you, if 10,000 people today signed up to this website, still not one would be able to answer anything, including myself.

I found one from the 1860s. The math part was pretty easy but the Latin and Greek killed me.

 

[SIW2]

Gman gets the gold star and the lolly.

 

[mart4494]

Ignorant people are easier to control. Have you ever seen the admissions test to an Ivy league school from the 1890s? I have and let me tell you, if 10,000 people today signed up to this website, still not one would be able to answer anything, including myself.

I found one from the 1860s. The math part was pretty easy but the Latin and Greek killed me.

Our political masters are more interested in getting high pass marks - helps them with their egos and of course re-election. Whether it does anything for the student in the real world is debatable. Read a report that we are turning out twice as many law graduates as there are available careers for. And don't get me started on media study courses.

Think we've definitely gone OT somewhere.

 

[SIW2]

The fact that Trevor Nunn and Adam Long only got grade B in the A level Shakespeare they sat recently - shows how weird the education system is.

( FYI - you can't find better authorities on Shakespeare than those two - they sat the paper a couple of years back just to see what they would get. Clearly there is something wrong with the system)

 

[area 66]

Who is Shakespeare ?

 

[mart4494]

The fact that Trevor Nunn and Adam Long only got grade B in the A level Shakespeare they sat recently - shows how weird the education system is.

( FYI - you can't find better authorities on Shakespeare than those two - they sat the paper a couple of years back just to see what they would get. Clearly there is something wrong with the system)

Maybe not really a fair reflection. If I was asked to pass my driving test again then I'd probably fail. Most of it is theory today rather than practical. When I first passed my driving test my instructor took me straight onto a skid pan - real world experience.

Back on topic - Win8 only solves problems on a personal level. As my Win7 64bit system is running fine and I have no interest in downloading apps atm on my desktop or laptop and certainly have no interest in the cloud until it is proven to be 100% reliable (99% is simply not good enough) then it will not solve any problems for me.

 

[Windunce]

Who is Shakespeare ?

A world reknown manufacturing company, specializing in fishing equipment.

Shakespeare Fishing Tackle

 

[GMan]

No, they make cb radio and marine antennas.

 

[Vince53]

Who is Shakespeare ?

He's the one who said "Give me liberty, or give me death."

 

[SIW2]

LOL.

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players

 

[lehnerus2000]

Lunatics Running the Asylum

Think we've definitely gone OT somewhere.

The lunatics are running the asylum.

Too many people in positions of influence today are hopelessly divorced from reality. Operating on a corrosive mix of propaganda, emotion and mental instability, they are dangerously passionate about things of which they know nothing.

Lunatics Running the Asylum
Lunatics Running the Asylum

 

[stefalopod]

Read a report that we are turning out twice as many law graduates as there are available careers for.

I've read the same thing, and I know plenty of my contemporaries haven't found jobs as lawyers, but speaking from experience there is LOTS of legal work for them as want to take it. The beauty of it is that the excess of trained attorneys has to reduce the overinflated price of legal services, and this is coming from me. There are plenty of other legal education rants I could treat you to, but a lack of available work isn't one of them. (In case it isn't already clear, I'm a recently graduated attorney).

 

[Vince53]

Read a report that we are turning out twice as many law graduates as there are available careers for.

(In case it isn't already clear, I'm a recently graduated attorney).

Must...not...tell...lawyer...joke...