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13 years ago
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I got my hands into a copy of windows 8 at a friend's house earlier. He'd downloaded the freebie beta version from Microsoft's website and set it up to see how it would run on his new computer.
I say this with all sincerity: if Windows 8 doesn't put Microsoft out of business, it will only be because someone with some sense managed to pull the plug, before it was too late.
To explain how bad it is, let me first remind you of something you had either forgotten, or were deliberately trying to forget.
Microsoft Bob:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob
For you lucky folks who never ran into it, Microsoft Bob was a dumbed-down interface that was invented by Bill Gates' then-current girlfriend. Instead of the normal windows arrangement of folders and files, you had a screen with a big colorful picture of a room, and buttons placed over objects in the room, so you could easily open programs by clicking on them.
Well, it's back, minus the pretty pictures. Microsoft's new "metro" interface is a stripped down variant of Microsoft Bob, with blank rectangles where there once were pictures. Nothing more, nothing less.
But, you say, there's a way to get a normal windows desktop! Just click here, and there it is. Folders and files and all.
Yes, there it is. Windows 3.1. That is essentially what they provide: A shinier version of the 3.1 interface. Usable for viewing files and folders, and that's about it, really. It's nothing but a drawer you can open to reach around inside and eventually close again. You cannot use it as a replacement for Metro, because it's just slapped onto the side, and entirely subservient to it.
I cannot understand how this thing managed to pass through the corporate chain, without someone someplace saying "hang on, a minute." An outdated design strapped to another that was so universally despised that the very mention of it's name is enough to induce vomiting.
Remember when I said the future was retro? Well, the future is here and it's outdated crap.
Welcome to a shiny new Microsoft Bob, and it's complimentary copy of Windows 3.1.
You'd think that, after the disaster that was Vista, Microsoft would have learned a few things about trying the limits of their customer's patience.
I wonder how soon after Metro pile-drives into the tarmac, we'll see a panic release of "Windows 9: The Apology."
I say this with all sincerity: if Windows 8 doesn't put Microsoft out of business, it will only be because someone with some sense managed to pull the plug, before it was too late.
To explain how bad it is, let me first remind you of something you had either forgotten, or were deliberately trying to forget.
Microsoft Bob:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob
For you lucky folks who never ran into it, Microsoft Bob was a dumbed-down interface that was invented by Bill Gates' then-current girlfriend. Instead of the normal windows arrangement of folders and files, you had a screen with a big colorful picture of a room, and buttons placed over objects in the room, so you could easily open programs by clicking on them.
Well, it's back, minus the pretty pictures. Microsoft's new "metro" interface is a stripped down variant of Microsoft Bob, with blank rectangles where there once were pictures. Nothing more, nothing less.
But, you say, there's a way to get a normal windows desktop! Just click here, and there it is. Folders and files and all.
Yes, there it is. Windows 3.1. That is essentially what they provide: A shinier version of the 3.1 interface. Usable for viewing files and folders, and that's about it, really. It's nothing but a drawer you can open to reach around inside and eventually close again. You cannot use it as a replacement for Metro, because it's just slapped onto the side, and entirely subservient to it.
I cannot understand how this thing managed to pass through the corporate chain, without someone someplace saying "hang on, a minute." An outdated design strapped to another that was so universally despised that the very mention of it's name is enough to induce vomiting.
Remember when I said the future was retro? Well, the future is here and it's outdated crap.
Welcome to a shiny new Microsoft Bob, and it's complimentary copy of Windows 3.1.
You'd think that, after the disaster that was Vista, Microsoft would have learned a few things about trying the limits of their customer's patience.
I wonder how soon after Metro pile-drives into the tarmac, we'll see a panic release of "Windows 9: The Apology."
Needless to say, it'll sell like hotcakes even if it is shit. 'Tis how things go nowadays.
We're likely going to end up with a situation where IT departments will refuse to do upgrades, like they did when Vista rolled out. I also recall that people who bought new computers with Vista preinstalled were demanding to be "upgraded" to XP.
I still run XP. Considering it's due to keep being fed updates until 2016, I don't feel compelled to change that, either.
Especially not if this is the alternative...
Maybe that's what Microsoft is hoping.
In hell, computers run on Windows Vista.
There was a joke I heard of once. Microsoft combined three operating systems: Windows CE, Windows ME and Windows NT to give you...
Windows CEMENT!!!
This is why apple has both iOS and OSX.
I fear that far too much money has been spent on this product, and far too many reputations are on the line to allow it to die the flaming death it deserves. I expect them to force it down users throats until vomiting results.
The way they tried to do with Vista.
Nice to see I was right.
Joke aside, M$ has the bad habit of creating a shoddy OS right after the good one so chances are that the majority will skip 8 and wait for 9 two years later.
Actual gaming was to be done through DOS and CD-Roms and floppies, though.
Sweet childhood memories.
Guess I'll keep it at 7, then.
As for the no DVD support, you can get it IF you pay them more money. They have some sack to pull that one on people.
And I remember Bob. Now if only I can FORGET it ever existed.
id rather deal with xp