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my concern with removing the start menu and booting straght to metro in a bussiness enviroment is the training. Its going to be a nightmare for me to train 800 people on how to navigate this system. The down time, and help desks calls will drive me to drink... Im just not going to introduce Windows 8, unless I have no option.
 
Businesses that do not give their customers what they want are destined to fail. There is either some brilliant behind-the-scenes "something" going on at Microsoft that will knock consumers' socks off (which I can't see from my outside-in perspective), or Microsoft has gone stupid. I wonder if Bill Gates has called up Ballmer and asked him "WTF!???"
 
That's it, that's the last straw. I'm not upgrading to Win8. Having the 3rd party start menu was the only way I was able to do what I do.
 
Microsoft Windows 8 sales data:
Day one of realese: Unit sold = 0
5 years later: Unit Sold = 0

Microsoft Finance Director: "Urrr whats wrong with this picture? Did we do something wrong?"

 
ubuntu on a much smaller scale had this same problem switching to Unity
it pushed people to Linux Mint, who was smart enough to listen and try to make their customers happy...

sounds like MSFT just wants to push people into keeping Windows 7
i tried WIN 8 for a good 2 months, and i just dont get the appeal on a desktop
 
Sounds like every other Windows OS release. The cycle goes: OS that's great, OS that's annoying, OS that's great, OS that's annoying. Windows 9 will probably have a "start menu" of sorts.
 
Microsoft is setting themselves up for a failure that makes Vista pale in comparison. I'm not buying Windows 8. I don't want a Windows 8 PC either. First thing I'll do if I buy one is to move it back to Windows 7. I really hate that Microsoft is forcing us to use our computers in the way they suddenly designated as best. I thought that Microsoft was better than that. Maybe some Gnome people started working there.
 
I guess Microsoft has a real Metro zealot in charge of Windows 8. This release is so anti-desktop that I cannot see businesses adopting it. Who wants their non-touch LCD screen to look like a tablet or smartphone?
 
I just have to point out the majority of business has barely made the jump from XP, few would even consider a jump to win8 with or without metro, this would give folks plenty of time to get used to metro in the consumer space first before the business transition

And really it can only be an improvement over the 101 icons on the desktop im all too familiar in seeing

The desktop is a very familiar entity and maybe that's why we find it so hard to let go of, but really from a business perspective what does it actually do that requires its necessity it's just a giant icon collector which metro is more than capable of emulating
 
Then why even bother to give the option to get out of Metro then. It makes noooooooooo sense why they are blocking this this much. I know i won't be buying win 8. Win 7 is the best. I don't see a substantial reason why i should buy win 8.
 
No corporation in their right mind would switch to Windows 8 simply because of the massive UI change. There would be massive man hours lost to users learning the new system and lots of money spent on the help desk. It just doesn't make financial sense for any corporation to switch. I worked at a global help desk for a very large corporation during the switch from XP to 7. I can only imagine what it would be like to switch to 8.
 
Question: How do you get at least a portion of your customer base to purchase two copies of your software, instead of just one?

Answer: Frst release it cobbled. Then undo the cobbling and re-release after the target number of copies have sold.

I think that M$FT may have learned an unfortunate lesson from Vista: their approach worked. Rather than delaying Vista until it became Windows 7 and was well-received in the marketplace, they released Vista, forced it on new-computer buyers, and then sold those same customers an updated copy of the O/S later on when 7 was released and those customers wanted to upgrade. Not only did it not hurt them to release Vista rather than waiting for it to become 7, but they actually sold more licenses that way...

I really hope I'm wrong, because I'm not looking forward to having to skip botched O/S releases every couple of years.
 
I never heard of LinuxMint... but thanks for posting about it. It looks... clean and simple... a bit old-style Windows XP/7 with a cleaner task bar.

I'm downloading it right now. ubuntu is really getting hammered for its interface change??
 
I'm just waiting for MS to say as an after thought: "Oh yeah, DX12 is... oh wait, we dropped that because pc gaming is dead. Had to clean up that legacy code so nobody puts it back. Sorry. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a vacation home in hawaii to go sell."

If I wanted my PC to work like a smartphone, I'd go buy a smart phone.
Which I have already (android), and it looks better then some of the shots i've seen of 8.

I want my PC to look like a gaming PC, and work like one. If I want it to look like a Rainbow bright slideshow, I'll install a rainbow bright theme. I can wait this out, i stayed with XP until win7 RC1, and was quite content, I'll wait and see how Win9 goes, if gaming no longer gets supported the way I need it too, then I guess either quit new gaming or go to Linux.
 
Malice Mi¢ro$oft.

To remove it on purpose, its so nonsense.

Steve Ballmer could exit Microsoft gracefully, but instead, he will be remembered as a

bad boss and the man that ripped the Start button including the code.

Bad taste will remain....
 
[citation][nom]kniped[/nom]It really seems like Microsoft is intentionally setting up Windows 8 to fail.[/citation]

No really... MS will not fail. They are monopoly and there are no alternatives. They've always been able to make the users use whatever MS wants them to use. 😀 I bet they are doing that so that they could reintroduce the feature in a future Windows version.

And another reason it won't fail because all OEMs will need to install Window 8 anyway. So MS will slam it up your arse, even if you don't want it.
 
MS won't bankrupt even if they sold 0 copies. They have loads of resources coming in from MANY, MANY, MANY different avenues. Especially from businesses... I am surprised at the number of people here who say they can't operate without a damn start button. I mean LOL - I thought this was a techsite. The last time I hit the start button was probably 6 years ago - before I learned hotkeys to do everything.

If anything this new stuff will make it easier for all you whine bags who probably haven't even tried out Win8. It's not like businesses are even going to pick up on Win8 anyway. They are just now starting to buy into Win7. Sooo-what if MS is aiming at consumers for this cycle, don't buy in and wait for the next cycle.

I am interested to see what kind of integration MS can do for a smart phone and a computer through this whole process. I have avoided a smartphone, because it can't (unlike so many people claim) do anything that I can do on my computer. I want a smartphone connected to my domain at work.

I think people need to give this a damn chance and just wait it out. Let's see how bad it really is before we burn this thing to the ground. I mean we have 7. Is Win7 missing something so bad that you NEED to upgrade to something else?!!? What the hell could you want? Why are you worried about a new OS if win7 meets all your needs?

Quit whining ya damn babies.
 
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