Hilarious Video - Mother attempts to use windows 8 for the first time

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Windows 8 has just been released but how will users react when they encounter it for the first time? Check out how a mother who is attached to windows xp responds when she attempts using windows 8 for the first time. Give her the most simplest of tasks and watch her struggle in frustration to complete them... well try to anyway before she literally slams the door on windows 8 at the end of the video.

Tasks Given:
- Log in (Already told how to log in)
- Check your emails without using an internet browser
- Get out of mail back to the apps screen
- Check the weather
- Make, save then open a text file
- Download and Install firefox

The mother in this video has only ever used Windows XP running with the classic win95 theme. Would you like to see her try out other operating systems such as windows 1.01 or windows 3.11? How about non-microsoft operating systems such as various mac os versions throughout history or a variety of Linux builds?

Give this video lots of likes, views, favorites and comments if you want my mum to try out other operating systems. I am open to any operating system suggestions you give especially if this video goes semi-viral (over 100,000 views). This channel is dedicated to me "introducing" people (mum, dad, me) to different operating systems they have never used before and leaving them to suffer in confusion.

Random Quotes for those who can't watch the video:

The mail application:

Me: Try and check your emails without using an internet browser. So no firefox, no Chrome.
Mum: Mail, Probably.
*Clicks Mail App*
Me: There's your emails.
Mum: Ok Good, Now get out of it.
Me: How do you do that?
Mum: Um...
*Angrily clicks around the screen for a minute trying to quit the appication but instead deletes an email.
Mum: How do you get out of this thing? Do you roll something? Oh this is rediculous! Cnrl, alt delete? I don't know how to get out of it... what are you supposed to do?
Me: So this is what a computer user would do (holding back a laugh)
Mum: I don't know, I would just cnrl, alt delete. There's no options, its lost its options. What do you do?
Me: Try and put your cursor to the corner of a screen.
*Puts cursor to the top right corner of the screen, side bar with 5 buttons appears*
Me: What do you notice? What's there?
Mum: Symbols. I don't know what those symbols are. It looks like hieroglyphics.

Review of the new start/grid screen:

Mum: This looks cartoonish. It doesn't even look like an improvement on the last one. It looks like its going back to the start.
Me: What year does it look like?
Mum: It looks like the first one ever and all the others (operating systems) have been and improvement on this (windows 8).

Don't know how to download firefox:

Me: Seriously you don't know how to download a program?
Mum: But I've already got it on my computer. Why would I want to download it?
Me: Because you install Windows 8 on your computer on and you don't have Firefox.
Mum: I would never be stupid as to install windows 8 on my computer. After looking at it now its just stupidity.
Me: Well try and get it, Firefox.
Mum: But I don't want to! I want to walk back to my room and have my own computer.

So, Want to update your computer to windows 8?:
Me: If they said we're gonna install it on your computer. If you don't have it installed you've got to pay a fine of $100. Would you pay the $100?
Mum: Pay the fine of 100 Dollars. I've had enough of it.
Me: And How much do you think they are saying that it costs to buy windows 8?
Mum: They should pay people for it.

What's the Best operating system:
Me: So what operating system do you prefer to use?
Mum: The one I'm used to.
Me: Well what is that?
Mum: Windows 7, That will do.
Me: You don't even use windows 7
Mum: What do I use?
Me: *Laughs* Seriously you should know what you use!
Mum: Vista
Me: You don't, You hate vista.
Mum: Well what do I use then?
Me: The thing before vista.
Mum: XP
Me: Yes XP
Mum: Well that's fine, just stay with the XP.
Me: 2001
Mum: It doesn't matter. I'm used to it. I know what to do and thats it!
*slams the door on windows 8*

Commenting:
Leave comments relating to how my mum responded to windows 8 in this video or if it compares to your own first experience with windows 8.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 7
Funny and all, but the fact of the matter is, he's asking her to do things she doesn't know how to do on her own computer. Not exactly a fair review, is it?

Once she learned how to open the start menu, she got the hang of it fast. Yes, the first time someone use Windows 8, they need a little bit of knowledge. But this happens once, and once they know it, it's not an issue anymore.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
    CPU
    Intel i7 3770K
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte Z77X-UD4 TH
    Memory
    16GB DDR3 1600
    Graphics Card(s)
    nVidia GTX 650
    Sound Card
    Onboard Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Auria 27" IPS + 2x Samsung 23"
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1440 + 2x 2048x1152
    Hard Drives
    Corsair m4 256GB, 2 WD 2TB drives
    Case
    Antec SOLO II
    Keyboard
    Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000
    Mouse
    Logitech MX
What's the point of these type of videos? If you sat someone down in front of a computer running XP, OS X, Linux or whatever and told them to start using it they would have a similar experience.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    W10 Pro (desktop), W10 (laptop), W10 Pro (tablet)
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home built i7-8700K, Hp Envy x360 EVO Laptop, MS Surface Pro 7
    CPU
    3.7Ghz Core i7-8700K, 11th Gen Core i7-1165G7 4.7Ghz, 10th Gen Core™ i5-1035G4 1.1Ghz
    Motherboard
    ASUS TUF Z370-Pro Gaming, HP, MS
    Memory
    16G, 8G, 8G
    Graphics Card(s)
    AMD Radeon RX580, Intel Iris X Graphics, Intel Iris Plus Graphics G4
    Sound Card
    ATI High Definition Audio (Built-in to mobo)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dual Samsung U32J59 32 inch monitors, 13.3" display, 12.3" display
    Screen Resolution
    3840x2160 (Desktop), 1920x1080 (laptop), 2736x1824 Pro 7
    Hard Drives
    500GB ssd boot drive with 2 & 10TB Data (Desktop), 512GB ssd (laptop), 128GB SSD (tablet)
    PSU
    Corsair CX 750M
    Case
    Antec 100
    Cooling
    Coolermaster CM 212+
    Keyboard
    IBM Model M - used continuously since 1986
    Mouse
    Microsoft IntelliMouse
    Internet Speed
    665Mbps/15Mbps down/up
    Browser
    FireFox, MS Edge
    Antivirus
    Defender on all
    Other Info
    Retired in 2015 after working in the tech industry for 41 years. First 10 years as a Technician, the rest as a programmer/software engineer. After 1 year of retirement, I was bored so went back to work as a Robotic Process Automation Consultant. Retired for 3rd (and final) time in 2019.
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