Re: Windows 8 demo video parody

    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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