Looks like all the complaints about Windows 8 have caused Microsoft to take notice.   I personally have only seen Windows 8 once in a hotel business center that had two computers.  After stumbling around for about 30 seconds, I quickly switched to the other machine which had Windows 7.  Not sure if the overhaul will make it more friendly for FSX users, but it's nice to know some action is being taken.  Bring back that damn START button lol.

 

 

http://news.yahoo.com/microsoft-touching-windows-8-address-gripes-044749525.html

 

Been using windows 8 since November, so far for me, a person who has used other windows os for a long time, the experience has been painless. I access all folders and files quicker than I did before and windows 8 is so much more user friendly. I think I'm the only one, it took me 0.5 seconds to figure out that the start screen is the start button. Everything you want a click away.

There's nothing concrete here. Ballmer is financially hurting more than just Microsoft with his half backed OS approach, what's sad is he doesn't seem to want to back down from it.

Did you miss the reports that Microsoft's profits for the latest quarter were up by 18% compared with last year. Apple's were down by 18%.

Did you miss the reports that Microsoft's profits for the latest quarter were up by 18% compared with last year. Apple's were down by 18%.

 

I just read that Apple was doing extremely well.  I hadn't heard about Microsoft's profits.  As for Windows 8, my daughter has it on her laptop and I had to set up her laptop for our wireless in my home.  It didn't bother me--you can get to the desktop easily enough.  My daughter just loves it.

 

I guess from an overall perspective though, when you consider the market in general, Windows 8 is not the interface people prefer using today since we've been weaned on the Window's desktop for a couple of decades now.  It's become "home" to business and leisure users alike, and people don't want to move away from that.

 

John

Been using windows 8 since November, so far for me, a person who has used other windows os for a long time, the experience has been painless. I access all folders and files quicker than I did before and windows 8 is so much more user friendly. I think I'm the only one, it took me 0.5 seconds to figure out that the start screen is the start button. Everything you want a click away.

 

I had that same revelation two minutes after install and haven't found anything to complain about in W8. If anything, it's faster and more stable than W7, and it's easier to find things, once you get it.

 

I think it's a testament to how hidebound people become in their user interface preferences.

I had that same revelation two minutes after install and haven't found anything to complain about in W8. If anything, it's faster and more stable than W7, and it's easier to find things, once you get it. I think it's a testament to how hidebound people become in their user interface preferences.

Home and tablet use W8 is not that bad. For a work environment or development environment it sucks plain and simple. W8 needs option setup for how users would like to use it. Not force everyone to use the OS like you would a phone. No matter how some of you like it the world as a whole is rejecting it...

Well, except for the 100 million of us who have purchased it.

 

If those are sell-thru, not sell-in numbers, that is (MS like most companies frequently cheats on such statistics; how many clicks on Bing are there because the page was designed to cause you to accidentally choose it? etc.).

Hmm...lets see. IMO, any OS that overcomplicates the process by which one shuts down a pc, leaves all else to be questioned. And Metro is about as pointless as Mountain Lion's Launchpad.