Microsoft Co-founder Calls Certain Win 8 Features ''Puzzling''

[chewy1963]

[citation][nom]alextheblue[/nom]You should watch Idiocracy. It's the future!You see, the primary difference between you and Luciferano is that he knows what he's talking about, whereas you... don't. As he and lightsol both pointed out, there are options already out there and the OS isn't even released yet. So stop spreading lies.[/citation]

Idiocracy was a good movie, throughout the entire thing the phrase that kept running through my mind was "stupid Apple users!"

Something all you Win 8 supporters are overlooking is the development tools that MS are releasing are geared toward a 'modern' UI world. In a couple years, you may well HAVE to use the crappy UI because all the newer programs will be written for it and not the desktop. Microsoft wants to control and profit from a walled garden just as Apple is trying to do.

If as a developer someone wanted to write a decent desktop style program (you know multi-window, customizable with a normal sized icon, they are almost going to be forced to use old development tools. The new ones are made to help MS fill up their 'store' with 'modern' UI 'apps'.

Sure you can install tools that can give you back your start menu and regular desktop but will future software still support that?

I don't trust MS on this one. If this isn't a distinct possibility, then why are they so adamant about making this UI the default with no native tools to bypass it (3rd party only)?

 

[ricdiculus]

Thank you Chewy. Do none of you people get that, ya sure you can get around the gui limitations, but Microsoft doesn't want the desktop as the primary interface. Yes the traditional desktop is still there, but for how long? Why wont they let us just boot to the desktop? In this day and age of people declaring "the desktop pc is dead" we should be very concerned about the precedent this os is setting. I fear that this is a tiny step in that direction.

 

[hetneo]

And still he mentioned not a single word about SNAFU with Safe Boot and OEM certification that could literary kill ambition of any kid to learn to program on Windows 8.

 

[diddo]

Puzzling is an euphemism. Windows 8 is like Eminem calling the rap dead and releasing a country album.