Relative Ease in Understanding How Windows 8 Works

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You can still vote.

But, if you have no reasonable basis for selecting a response in this poll then please do not participate. If you selected a response without a reasonable basis, then please take your vote back. Note that having a reasonable basis for making an assessment about relative ease of understanding how Windows 8 works relative to other Win OS’s requires adequate familiarity with only one Windows OS besides Windows 8. I require a forced choice between liking and disliking Windows 8 for obvious reasons.

I think this poll is mostly self explanatory. There is a great deal of discussion about why individuals react to Windows 8 as they do. For example, a commonly expressed idea is that many don't like Windows 8 because they don't understand how it works. So, I want to gather some quantitative information about whether you like or dislike Windows 8 and how you feel about the relative easy in understanding how Windows 8 works compared to other Windows operating systems (OS's).
 
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What poll?

You also need to make polls more expansive. If you don't want people to participate, then include an option that says something like "I don't have a basis for making a commnet".

Like, with your $40 upgrade poll, there is only two options. One for people that used it, and the other is "Windows 8 isn't for me", this assumes that people either used the $40 upgrade or didn't upgrade at all. There are many other options. So a third option of "I used another means to upgrade" would have been appropriate.

The point is, you don't get the results you're looking for, you only get results within some tiny frame of how you posed the question.
 

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What poll?

You also need to make polls more expansive. If you don't want people to participate, then include an option that says something like "I don't have a basis for making a commnet".

Like, with your $40 upgrade poll, there is only two options. One for people that used it, and the other is "Windows 8 isn't for me", this assumes that people either used the $40 upgrade or didn't upgrade at all. There are many other options. So a third option of "I used another means to upgrade" would have been appropriate.

The point is, you don't get the results you're looking for, you only get results within some tiny frame of how you posed the question.
I am happy with the way I set the poll up. It will provide me with the information I want. I want each individual to decide if he or she has a reasonable basis for providing a response. Logically, an individual would not provide a response without having what he or she believes to be a reasonable basis. I'll trust individuals to unvote if they decide they voted rashly. And, this way we don't have to adjust for who knows how many saying they have no reasonable basis.

I didn't do a $40 upgrade poll. Note that my current poll has six options not two as you mention.
 
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Znod;


I think that you are as smart as they come. Very astute and knowledgeable. Much appreciated.


However, I simply do not understand this apparent obsession to canvass users of Win 8 ????????
 
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Thank you; I appreciate your kind thoughts. Canvassing Win8 users is pretty much all I can canvas on a Win8 forum. In a poll like this one, which is intended to provide very general information about the relative ease in understanding how Windows 8 works relative to other Win OS’s, I think that every response ought to count regardless of what I might think about the stratified characteristics of the respondents. Note that polls here can't do much WRT stratification because of their limitations. Others might want to specify different characteristics (compared to my single one) of those eligible to respond to polls similar to this one upfront (e.g., might want to restrict to "power users" and up, etc.). In this regard, note that allowing for "everything" in the available responses if problematic here because of the limited number of responses possible and the limited number of characters allowed per response.

In deciding to do a poll (this one is my third), I tend to focus on topics that I think are important and are of general interest. In this regard, if I see a poll that purports to provide information on an important topic of general interest, but IMO doesn't do it well, then I might be inclined to do a poll that I think better deals with the issue.
 

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At first Win8 was very new to me. I've had to look and seach to find the things that I wanted to do. But after like two days I've completely understood the way it worked and found that it worked better for me than Win7. Which I've been using before that.

My answer to your poll was ==> I like Win8. How it works relative to other Win OS’s is very easy for me to understand.

The fact that I had to play with it for a couple of day's doesn't change this. I mean, who here really understands an OS within a second after first seeing it? It also took me a couple day's to get used to Win7 and XP before that.

Compared to Win7 though Win8 is easier to understand for me and makes me work more productive.

Hope this input is helpfull to you znod!
 

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Understand completely. Thank you for responding.
 

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You're welcome.
 

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I think it's worth bearing in mind that just because someone understands how it works, it doesn't necessarily mean it was well implemented.

For example, it may be easy for a user to understand how to shutdown the computer down once they know where the shutdown button is, but it doesn't mean it was well implemented or that they like where Microsoft put the shutdown button.
 

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90% of Win 8 users are totally clueless and inappreciative. Essentially brain dead.

Then clearly Microsoft completely missed the market when they designed Windows 8. Maybe that's why sales of Apple and Android devices just keep kicking along.
 

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I think it's worth bearing in mind that just because someone understands how it works, it doesn't necessarily mean it was well implemented.

For example, it may be easy for a user to understand how to shutdown the computer down once they know where the shutdown button is, but it doesn't mean it was well implemented or that they like where Microsoft put the shutdown button.
Correct. You could do a poll on this matter.
 

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For example, it may be easy for a user to understand how to shutdown the computer down once they know where the shutdown button is, but it doesn't mean it was well implemented or that they like where Microsoft put the shutdown button.

If you don't know where the shutdown button is, how the heck did you turn it on? They're the same button!
 

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Hi All:

Several "trends" to note at this point--based on the first 15 responses. So far the majority (2 to 1) likes Win8. Second, the majority of those that like W8 think how win8 works relative to other Win OS's is moderately easy to understand. Third, no one thinks how Win8 works relative to other Win OS’s is not very easy to understand. Third, those that do not like Win8 think how Win8 works relative to other Win8 OS's is very easy to understand.
 
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I voted it was easy for me to use versus previous Windows versions. Although the poll answers weren't setup for an asterisk type response.

My asterisk response would be that at this point in time, Windows 8 is very easy for me to use over previous versions. But it took some time to get there, I didn't know what was going on right off the bat and didn't really understand why things that were changed were changed. Until I finally learned and understood it, it was the easiest thing I've used.
 

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I like Win8. How it works relative to other Win OS’s is not very easy for me to understand.

I see I am the only vote in this category. :p But the truth of the matter is that the jump from Windows 7 to Windows 8 was more difficult for me than any of the previous I've made, starting with Windows 3.1. Thank goodness for this forum and Brink's tutorials, because they made it much easier for me. :thumbsup:
 

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I'm speculating, but these are so far interesting results.
 

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21 votes, sorry but to be interesting you would need many hundreds if not thousands if you were to try and pull any data from the numbers, would you not.

The most interesting numbers to me are just how few people are here and talking about it, same guys pretty much day after day. OS is out, if it wasn't for oem sales of new machines MS might have to pull a page from EA and just walk away and let it die.
 

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I voted it was easy for me to use versus previous Windows versions. Although the poll answers weren't setup for an asterisk type response.

My asterisk response would be that at this point in time, Windows 8 is very easy for me to use over previous versions. But it took some time to get there, I didn't know what was going on right off the bat and didn't really understand why things that were changed were changed. Until I finally learned and understood it, it was the easiest thing I've used.
Your vote is spot on to me. i don't think that fumbling a bit at the start precludes the "very easy" response.
 

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21 votes, sorry but to be interesting you would need many hundreds if not thousands if you were to try and pull any data from the numbers, would you not.

The most interesting numbers to me are just how few people are here and talking about it, same guys pretty much day after day. OS is out, if it wasn't for oem sales of new machines MS might have to pull a page from EA and just walk away and let it die.
I understand and accept that our polls have no known generalizability beyond even their actual respondents--i.e., not even to the population of forum participants. The best we can hope of is that we accurately capture the information sought about/from our respondents and, in this context, obtain some clues about what is going on in some unidentified larger population.

If wanting to generalize, say, to all Win8 users in the U.S., then you are right that the sample would have to be considerably larger than the current 21--and the sample, of course, would have to be drawn randomly and hopefully stratified (quick read here). I have no idea about the number of, say, Win8 users in the U.S., but I link here a brief, but not rigorously explained, quick read about survey sample sizes. Note that stratification is not allowed for in this link. Anyway, you might find it interesting. How many Win8 users would you guess there are in the U.S.?--just to allow some thinking about sample size if wanting to generalize the results of some properly conducted Win8 survey to this population.

Yes, and we'll see how thing go with Win8 sales now that so much OEM buying has been done and the price increases are in effect. MS will/does have some other promote Win8 sales ideas I'm sure. I am seeing more about discounts to students lately, but have not read any of the "articles."

Thanks for your thoughts.
 
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I chose: I like Win8. How it works relative to other Win OS’s is moderately easy for me to understand.
Features I like are big clock &weather on lock screen.
I use Brink's All apps & Start screen shortcuts pinned to taskbar in addition to windows key
I like the no folders on All apps screen. It's more friendly for new users & long time users who were scared to open a folder because they didn't want to mess their computer up. After years of the start menu, they can find Paint without calling me.
The only con I can think of so far is Search. Then again, maybe I haven't found the adjustments yet.
 

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