I’m calling it now. First Windows ME, then Vista, next 8. All failures, or soon to be.
There’s nothing new in Windows 8 that warrants replacing Windows 7 so soon but there’s enough changed on the surface to piss people off. People don’t like having changes forced upon them (see also: Facebook). The only people that will be getting Windows 8 will be people who got it pre-installed and had no choice, and I don’t see any businesses upgrading to Windows 8 whatsoever.
I agree. Win8 is a horrible Frankenstein OS that combines a mobile device OS with a desktop OS for no good reason. I think Microsoft is misreading the role mobile devices have in our society. They are not replacement technologies, but complementary technologies. As such, Metro and Windows should not be combined. Or, at the very most, Metro should be an app within Windows (not the other way around), that can be used if/when a mobile device is plugged in.
Agreed, The start menu becomes a start screen that’s intrusive and as impossible to use and navigate as Windows Phone UI. I don’t want that! But that’s the way everything’s going; phones, tablets, PCs, MS office, even GNOME 3. What’s wrong with the desktop paradigm we’re all used to.
The new PCs at my workplace now come with a windows 7 sticker on the hardware, but XP software, so it looks like people are still using those backward licenses to install XP rather than use vista or 7 as the license allows.
Many people even still use XP. XP is a legend