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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