[citation][nom]someoneelse[/nom]Sorry but this arguement for metro interface is moronic. There is a difference between good innovation and bad innovation. No one complained about XP or W7 because they were good innovation. Good innovation drives sales. Bad innovation drives customers away. Metro is clearly better suited to the less than 1% of windows touch devices that do exist in a currently limited "touch OS" market. In the mean time most mainstream buyers ( laptops and desktops ) will take one look at W8 on their next potential laptop and either not bother upgrading or go to the apple store ( yes they'll be downgrade to w7 options but most people want something that works out of the box with zero hassle).The biggest loosers of all this could be intel as fewer people upgrade to ivy bridge mobile because they don't like the metro interface. Nevermind. Microsoft will learn about customer choice once they loose enough sales. The tech press has been somewhat forgiving of metro. I doubt the public will be so open minded. The writings on almost every forum wall - if MS can't see it that's their problem.[/citation]
i cant talk about windows xp at launch, but i heard it was... not that well received and only got universal love once sp1 came out... i came into it with a new computer with service pack 2.
windows 7, i have complaints about it, but its a 64bit os that has support form almost everything, i didnt have a choice... i still miss xp style cascade and tile options, and hate aspects of aero that seam obvious but dont work the way i want (moving a window to the edge, than pulling it either down or away, the size of the window reverts to what it was before it changed) not being able to easily assign icons to files like i use to, and not seeing an obvious option to lock all folders to a specific view type and only changing when i give the word (granted i havent looked hard), now my favorite, an in os folder size option
or how all the options in windows 7 are organised differently than each windows that came before it, for no reason but change sake.
i have legitimate complaints about the os, but good outweigh the bad with this one.
but windows 8, i just cant see one aspect of that os appealing... for anyone NOT useing a touch interface.
[citation][nom]Zetto[/nom]You kids need to get with the program tbh. My 90 year old dad has an all in one touch with Win 7. He loves it and can't wait for the Win 8 upgrade.Embrace positive change or get left behind, gesture based ui is the future, AND it will be superior to the old mouse/start menu days.[/citation]
by gesture based i assume you mean multi touch, and not kinect like flailing.
i can see use in multi touch in an os, but i cant see it working on a monitor. a separate touch pad, yea, but not a monitor. i can imagine using most programs with some form of touch based commands, but i can not see it working well with a monitor, and i cant see it possible working with the kinect, or probably working with body movements without full vr, or at least a see through head mount display. hell im willing to be that ill be dead before they get body movements in computers down to the point its more convenient than useing a mouse (try playing a kinect game and tell me they are even close)
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