The overall big picture...
...through rose tinted glasses.
I suggest you take your blinders off and put some glasses on. I believe the "present future" of computing is before our very eyes. I feel Windows 8 is an ingenious model far beyond anything Apple, Google, or anyone else could possibly develop. Others simply do not have, or ever will have the talented and creative personal that MS has.
Microsoft has made lots of mistakes in its time, just like Apple and any large corporation, none of them are infallible. There is no doubt that the Modern interface is half baked through lack of flexibility of the Modern interface in a desktop environment.
Yes, no one or any company is infallible. MS has no doubt made some mistakes through the years as we all do. I feel Microsoft has made no mistake here, though. "that the Modern interface is half baked through lack of flexibility of the Modern interface in a desktop environment", I feel, is your unsubstantiated viewpoint and opinion. It may not fit your needs or workflow, but that doesn't mean it's "half-baked" as you state.
Incidentally, there is no "desktop" pertaining to the new Modern interface. I'm sorry you view it that way. It is completely independent of the Win32 desktop environment. The traditional Win32 desktop, which presently takes 2nd place to the Modern UI, is presently only a portal of the new interface, which is there to run Win32 legacy programs. I think it to be MS's business plan to introduce the Modern UI and to preserve the Win32 desktop so as to run legacy programs for a time. I see it as being the best orientation of the new and the old.
You and others clearly like the change, but simply because you like it, doesn’t mean that everyone should like it. I notice that you keep defending Windows 8 from any criticism, but never address legitimate points that people raise, always preferring to justify what Microsoft has done. This sounds exactly like Apple's approach for recent failures, until they had to call Mea Culpa.
I never claimed that everyone should or would like 8. I feel that if it doesn't fulfill one’s desires, one should simply stick to a prior OS or other OSs. Choices still exist for now.
They are legitimate points to you. Again, I think it is of your opinion. I don’t see them as being legitimate. They are unsubstantiated to me. As Mystere has stated and as I agree, all the complaining of what you and others think that are flaws or lack of choices isn’t going to change MS’s decision to keep steady on their course. I believe it is deeply embedded in their business plan, which I think also involves a certain time span for the user to become familiar to the change.
I don't see how I do, nor do I need to defend 8. I think it stands quite all right on it's own. Show me a direct defensive statement of mine and I’ll correct it. I try my utmost to write using statements like “I think”, “I feel”, and/or “I believe”, which are preliminary statements to introduce my personal perspective and/or opinion so as not to personally attack others or try to make them feel as such.
Mea Culpa? Is that a California priestess that hears Apple employees' confessions?
If Microsoft does the same, then Windows 8, and anything following, is going to suffer because of the sour taste left in people's mouths. The people here are the vocal minority, don't lose sight of the silent majority.
I believe MS is making no mistakes as others possibly did. Again, their Windows 8 model is far, far superior to what others would ever attempt to develop or have created. To me, MS has always been quite a creative company seemingly on the leading edge. I think there plan in introducing 8 and creating an environment to eventually become familiar across all devices is a rock-solid one.
Enough time here....Gotta go....Too-a-roo for now
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