I get the feeling windows 8 will turn out to be a bigger dud than vista 
or Bob.  Anyone disagree?

On 12/31/2012 03:39 AM, Nathan England wrote:
>
> That is hysterical! The first real computer I owned was a Compaq 
> Presario 486DX2, 66MHz with 4 MB of ram and it came with Windows 3.1? 
> and Bob. I thought it was a game or something and I could never figure 
> it out, so I deleted it. It was later that day that I found the Yahoo! 
> page for operating systems and discovered linux. I was hoping to find 
> the Mac OS like I had at school to run on my pc. I had no idea they 
> were such totally different beasts... That was a long time ago!
>
> I have Windows 7 Enterprise 90 eval on a partition of my workstation 
> for testing and IE use when necessary, and Netflix. My wife will 
> occasionaly use my laptop for checking her email in Firefox. I decided 
> to see how realistic these stupid usability videos are with a fairly 
> non-technical user who is not afraid to click around, so I installed 
> Window(s?) 8 on my system and didn't say a word. Unfortunately, I was 
> never able to surprise her with the system change, as she came into my 
> office to ask me what all the grumbling and griping was about. I was 
> laughing so hard, and then grunting and moaning, then laughing, she 
> thought I was playing a game or something. So I had to explain what it 
> was.
>
> It has been a week now that I have been using Windows 8. I installed 
> my development tools on it and decided I would try it for a little 
> while. I have two screens. Any of you experience this wonderful system 
> with two screens yet? You think this new system is fubar when you only 
> have one screen? Try two!
>
> I really do like the Netflix "app" that I was able to download from 
> the app store. The interface rocks. As long as you don't use it. Are 
> you serious? This thing is useless! Search for movies? you have to 
> exit the app, use the "charms" bar, type in your search, then select 
> the Netflix app to search in... Hello ! What usability expert approved 
> this?
>
> Then it suffers from the typical windows "I don't know how long this 
> will take to transfer, so I'll make something up" dialog box. When you 
> use the netflix website and you click somewhere in the video timeline 
> it will jump to that section and dispaly a bar or circle thing showing 
> how much is buffering. In the netflix app it is obvious it is 
> depending on windows for this info. It will start at 0 and quickly 
> move to 100% then suddenly its at 50% and climbs to 100%, then it 
> drops to like 15% and s....l....o....w...l...y... moves to about 27% 
> and suddenly starts playing the video... That's IF it acutally seeks 
> correctly.
>
> Windows 8 really is not usable as a real system. Cygwin is screwed and 
> not even fun to use anymore. Putty is the same old ugly putty, nothing 
> can make it worse.
>
> Try setting a different browser as the default and all the "apps" that 
> are designed to use IE as the browser will fail, or at least kick you 
> to the desktop with no obvious way back to your Modern UI. How many 
> people know there is a windows button on their keyboards? If you don't 
> know that, good luck click the 60 pixel wide button to get back to 
> Modern!!!
>
> Just my .02
>
> Nathan
>
>
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