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Microsoft Saying Goodbye to Aero in Windows 8

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Its almost as if Microsoft is intentionally handing over they're desktop/laptop market share to the rest of the world, namely Canonical. Just because the new tablet market is emerging, doesn't mean you have to jump your ship to get in on the tablet market. But see if I care, I have been advocating that Linux would eventually take over Windows for a long time now and I think this very well may be the start of it.
 
Let me see ... Microsoft claimed Windows 7 is what "YOU THE CONSUMERS" asked for, I guess now they are saying the consumers are "dated and cheesy" ... not that anyone actually believed they (the consumer) had any input what-so-ever with Windows 7.

So now we get Windows 8 that looks very much like Windows 3.1. Microsoft, you are SO SO LOST it's not even fun to make fun of it any more.

Microsoft needs to take a long hard look at Apple's OSX because Apple got it right! An OS should stay "OUT OF YOUR WAY" and not be "IN YOUR FACE" like Vista was, like Windows 7 is, and now like Windows 8 will be. The best OS is the one I DON'T NOTICE, doesn't get in my way, doesn't change for the sake of change, and is something I don't have to think about. Look at how OSX has evolved over time and you don't see any "radical" departures or changes from it's operation nor look and feel -- I just don't understand why Microsoft can't suck it up and learn this lesson.

An OS is NOT fashion, it doesn't need to change with the times. It just needs to be solid, reliable, fast, and get the job done with minimal user interaction. I care about the applications I run on the OS, not the OS itself.

Vista was prompt happy, you do anything and it kept on prompting you if it's "ok"
Windows 7 had less prompts (at least you can turn them off) but now they got window re-size all messed up and crazy "edge detection" that rarely does what I want.
Windows 8 -- how do I close my application again?? Where is explorer? It's a giant mess of loaded applications including "Store" (which I don't care about at all) ... so how do a stop all the junk from loading so it's doesn't kill my gaming performance ... so far, you can't, and gaming performance does suffer.

Windows7 and WinXP are still going to be around for a LONG LONG LONG time, hopefully long enough to see the death of Tablets and Windows 8 as people start to realize they don't need a Tablet and they are seriously limited on performance simply because they just can't get the power then need to run today's games at any level of quality. And that is the why Tablets (iPads included) will eventually fade away, there is NO WAY you'll ever have enough power and cooling in a Tablet ... smart phones can handle 99% of the "mobility" tasks and do it well enough.

So Microsoft bets the next OS on Tablets ... this is going to a flop worse than Vista or Win ME.

When is Microsoft gonna get rid of the nut job Ballmer?
 
[citation][nom]killerclick[/nom]With Metro, Microsoft is breaking the Windows ecosystem in two in order to get a 30% share off app sales. At the same time ruining desktop productivity by optimizing the UI for tablets that no one will buy.[/citation]
Keep in mind, when software is SOLD in a store, about 30%~50% of that price YOU paid gets to the publisher. The store and the distributor takes the rest... there is shipping, supplies, etc.

With the APP store, the 30% is pretty fair. The customer buys it and its locked to it. There is no shipping. There is no custom installers. There is no packaging, no media, no warehousing, no fright, no mass-production, etc.

Of course, the stores don't like it so much as they lose out to revenue. But also they don't have to deal with returns of opened/unopened software. etc.
 
So... they are gone more like XP? It looks pretty good. Actually, on my PCs and those for clients, I minimize the transparancy and make them black or very dark. The transparency/glass is always a bit messy (with icons and garbage bleeding through) and distracting.

The Win8 interface for the desktop is still the same, just a simpler new skin.
 
even numbers always sucked, exemplary: Win ME, Vista, and prolly 8
XP is #5, was great, now Win #7 is its successor.....next waiting for generation of Win #9
 
Hey guys, did you know there are now 12 kinds of Cheerios?! Check it out... talk about branding?
Rather than use a completely new name, they keep the shape and change the flavors.
So there is yogurt, peanut butter, chocolate, fruity, old-honey, frosty,etc...etc... ugh.

Windows8.... is a Cheerios flavor.
 
Windows 8 will be a godsend for tablets and touch enabled PC's, but beyond that, I predict a MASSIVE failure. This decision just seals it IMO. Sure it might be a little lighter and less resource intensive, but modern PC's are so powerful that that's not even much of a consideration anyway. It's not like the option to disable Aero in Vista/7 doesn't exist.
 
[citation][nom]bignick18[/nom]For being tech people and changing with the times I would assume most would try it atleast before saying its a flop... Lol in the end I guess we are human where we just hate change.[/citation]

What makes you think "most" haven't tried it? I'm saying it's bad and a flop because I *have* been trying it since the developer preview. I don't hate change - I hate *bad* changes. I hate changes that impact me negatively - and the changes in Windows 8 do just that. The metro interface and everything it brings is *several* steps backward in usability, and I'm certainly not looking forward to the headache of supporting people on it.
 
[citation][nom]mirage1974a[/nom]The real reason is that tablets don't have the horsepower to run Aero, so they had to dumb down the OS for everybody. Way to try to downplay advances in a UI Microsoft.[/citation] Microsoft dumbed down Windows 8, now if we could only figure out who dumbed down Microsoft.
 
This will probably take Android to the desktop market if they decide to develop it for x86/64, because it has animation effects, moving backgrounds and a whole lot of eye candy.
 
"The Windows 8 user experience is forward-looking, yet respectful of the past," I feel like I'm listening to a speech delivered by professor Umbridge.
 
Microsoft has lost it's way.
The metro UI is awful and meant for crappy windows phones that nobody buys.
Windows 8 is already dead, there's no reason to downgrade to an inferior user interface
that's not suitable for PCs, Windows 7 works quite well and was a step in the right direction,
so I'm just going to skip on Windows 8 and wait if windows 9 rectifies the Metro UI blunder or just plain switch to Macinstosh or Linux.
 
I wonder if this is the only offering from Microsoft. Will there be different versions of windows 8 like we had with 7....Basic--->Home Premium--->Professional-->Ultimate. Honestly I am not liking this metro/getro UI. Hopefully there is a classic mode right?

On a another note...is it me or is this whole trend going to eliminate mouse and keyboards in favor of touch?
 
[citation][nom]dado023[/nom]even numbers always sucked, exemplary: Win ME, Vista, and prolly 8XP is #5, was great, now Win #7 is its successor.....next waiting for generation of Win #9[/citation]
Windows98 is an even number? It blew Win95 out of the water... man that was a nightmare.
98se was even better (more like 99)
 
7. Make your PC work like a device, not a computer.
Click to expand...
1. The cloud controls your PC and devices, just like what we see with Android;
2. Some hacker from [any country] takes control over the cloud and deploys and an that erases all personal data from drives and the cloud itself and then increases the voltage of the computer components to the point they burn;
3. Damages in a never seen scale - including fires and human losses;
4. Nuclear war.
5. ?
 
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