Microsoft Is In Serious Danger Of Flying Straight Into A Mountain With Windows 8

 

Alarm bells must be ringing in Microsoft's Redmond headquarters.

Microsoft is close to releasing Windows 8 and it's shaping up to be another "Vista". Only this time the repercussions could be much worse.

The critics who have been using Windows 8 are extremely negative on the new look and feel of the operating system

 

 

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-windows-8-has-bad-reviews-heres-why-it-matters-2012-6#ixzz1x3R74a5h

 

• At Slate, Farhad Manjoo writes, "In my time with Windows 8, I’ve felt almost totally at sea—confused, paralyzed, angry, and ultimately resigned to the pain of having to alter the way I do most of my work."
  

• At Marketwatch, John Dvorak says, "Windows 8 looks to me to be an unmitigated disaster that could decidedly hurt the company and its future ... The real problem is that it is both unusable and annoying."
  

• Our own analyst, and long time Microsoft observer Matt Rosoff said, "I still think it's needlessly confusing and hard to use ... I've spoken to other people who have been testing Windows 8 for months. A lot of them found it puzzling like I did, and it's getting worse, not better, with each beta update."
  

 

 

It looks like MS is hanging its hopes on tablets, cloud computing and Xbox Live for gaming...

Everyone wants to be like Apple. Personally I do not like Apple products and find them to be way over priced.

I used to beta test every new MS OS.. Windows 8 was the first I scoffed at the second I heard about them trying to make it slipstream into phones and tablets. Such a stupid idea and glad to see it's ultimately the disaster I thought it would be. Microsoft has failed every time they try to enter the phone market so I have no idea why they would jeopardize their flagship product to compete in a tech sector they are awful in and don't stand a chance. Windows 7 64 is perfect and I'll likely skip Windows 8 entirely.

I only hope Microsoft doesn't do their normal soft shoe and generally ignore public opinion as they have traditionally done in the past. It's not like there's a whole lot of competition in the OS market out there, and it seems to me that people still aren't used to or happy with Windows7 yet.

I am not beta testing 8 for the first time either only because I like 7.

 

I am not worried about a potential backlash against 8 either because it is really only a very few that feel the need to make a lot of noise. Even Vista did well in sales numbers regardless of the few making a lot of noise.

I am not beta testing 8 for the first time either only because I like 7.

 

I am not worried about a potential backlash against 8 either because it is really only a very few that feel the need to make a lot of noise. Even Vista did well in sales numbers regardless of the few making a lot of noise.

 

Absolutely correct, the most vocal opponents are the ones that review PC and OSes, the vast majority of people will just shrug and learn to use the system especially if it's already on their new computer.

LINUX FOREVER!!!!

I never used Win Vista and stayed with Win XP until Win 7 came along. I disagree with the article in that I do not think people will skip buying Desktop because Win 8. They will just stick buying new Desktops with Win 7 like many people did with XP. Desktops is a segment by its own rights, just like Laptops (and derivatives) and IPhones (and derivatives) are two other distinct segments. All three have their exclusive proper time of usage and each can do part of what the other ones can do but not all. The industry would like us to believe that one will eventually should rule supreme. Not so or at least not yet for what we see. MS should have come out with some other Android type OS for that segment and leave Windows alone and out of it.

 

Cheers,

 

MAB

What I would like to know is if those of you who have beta test WIN8 have loaded up FSX with it. How does FSX perform in the WIN8 OS environment?

I've used the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, and now the Release Preview on my Oracle VirtualBox.

 

I hate it.

 

Seriously. This Metro UI is so Windows Phone. Windows 8 is confusing, and hard to navigate.

 

I'm truly embarrassed and sorry to say this, but I must admit that I had to Google "how to turn off windows 8". The shutdown button is not in the start menu (AKA Metro UI), so apparently you must first log off, then click the power button, then finally Shut Down.

 

I hope Microsoft can realize what they're doing wrong, as the people are not the only ones saying Windows 8's Metro UI sucks:

 

http://www.guardian....w?newsfeed=true

 

Metro is not, on the whole, something which Microsoft's existing customers want. Windows 7 succeeded because it was unequivocally better than Windows Vista: faster, more reliable, and with useful innovations like its improved taskbar from which you can launch applications.

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Even on a legacy PC, Windows 8 improves markedly once you learn the basics of navigation. Leaving aside Metro, Windows 8 benefits from three years of engineering improvements since Windows 7 in 2009, resulting in a faster, smoother experience.

 

It seems Microsoft has stopped listening to its most important crowd: their customers. I really hope Windows 8 turns out to be like Vista, so Microsoft will wake up from this tablet dream.

 

What I would like to know is if those of you who have beta test WIN8 have loaded up FSX with it. How does FSX perform in the WIN8 OS environment?

I would love for someone to do that as well. I would, but I'm not wasting an FSX license on that horrible operating system. :nea: (Yes, I do know that my licenses are given back when I uninstall FSX, but still)

Edited June 7, 201214 yr by linux731

The same sort of things were said before every new release in the past. There were even complaints when Microsoft went from DOS to Windows.

There were even complaints when Microsoft went from DOS to Windows.

 

Flight Sim people came down very hard on that one....Flight Sim 5.1 was DOS and people ran it off a customized boot disk. The thought of Windows 95 and Flight Simulator 95 was so controversial at the time, it makes the recent MS Flight chatter seem like a walk in the park.

 

Windows 95 and Flight Simulator 95 was a big step forward in retrospect. Amazing how the Nay Sayers never die. :LMAO:

When I built my system last year, I told them "no OS" and bought an XP disk, since the builders no longer offered XP. Now that I've got Windows 7 on my desktop at work, I'm happy I stuck with XP at home.

 

I don't want to be protected from myself, which seems to be what Windows 7 is all about.

 

Microsoft's mantra seems to be "If it ain't broke, we'll fix it until it is."

I hadn’t suspected before that Josh H had anything to do with planning W8, might he be a "Mole” ..., hired by the Makers of the Android OS to prepare MS for the launch of Honeycomb 4.0 for the PC.... conspiracy theory or prescience

this is nothing new. The tech world for YEARS has used an "every other release we'll take it" approach....at least in the shops I have worked for! Every other OS release from them sucks. Follow the lineage back, I'll even only go so far back as XP:

 

WinXP: still WIDELY used, stable platform.

WinVista: yeah, really, who remembers this one?

Win7: Again, widely accepted, stable, even being moved to in the VA where I work.

Win8: seeing a pattern?

 

Same applied to the Server-side O/S. They get one right, they try to improve or make drastic changes and it fails. Maybe someday they can break the cycle, but I don't see it happening now.