What's Wrong with Window 8
Let’s take a tour of where he thinks Microsoft has gone wrong with Windows 8
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes from ZDNet has been using Windows 8 Consumer Preview since its release back at the end of February, and having used it extensively on a number of several physical and virtual systems, he will tell you what he thinks is wrong with Microsoft’s latest incarnation of Windows.
It might not say the word ‘beta’ anywhere on this release, but this Consumer Preview is still pre-release software, and as such there will be bugs and features that are not yet fixed in stone. Let’s take a tour of where he thinks Microsoft has gone wrong with Windows 8, starting with the obvious.
- Too much emphasis on touch - He still can’t fathom out why Microsoft is pushing a touch-based operating user interface onto systems that people are going to be driving with a keyboard and mouse, which he estimates will make up at least 90 percent if not more of Windows 8 users over the lifespan of the operating system. It feels like change for the sake of change and nothing else.
- Clashing user interfaces - Another problem he has with Windows 8 is how readily Microsoft flips users between the Classic and Metro user interfaces whenever the developers haven’t managed to create a consistent user interface. Bolting on a new user interface is one thing, but when that user interface is incomplete, it makes you question the value of having it in the first place.
- Too much mystery meat - There are too many hidden and invisible user interface elements in Windows 8. Take your mouse to the bottom-left of the screen and you get poor replacement to the Start Menu. Take the cursor to the top-left and you get tiles showing apps that are open. Take the cursor to the right of the screen and a charms ribbon pops out.
- Two operating systems in one - As it currently stands Windows 8 feels like two operating systems unceremoniously bolted together. It’s as though you asked a child to draw a futuristic car. They’d give you the general car shape and then bold on something like wings or rockets. Rather than ending up with something new, you end up with a Frankenstein’s monster of cobbled together parts.
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