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I imagine that many of the people who hate it do so because of the radical change to it. People by nature are weary of new things. I felt the same way about Windows XP and stuck to the classic theme for a week or so before I said: "Fuck it, let's try this thing the way it was intended and we'll see how it goes." I never went back to the classic mode again.
You should read into it further:
Their list of weaknesses in Windows 8 started with price: 35% followed by system requirements: 26%; incompatibility 25%; Windows freezes 20%; and only then does the interface show up with 18%.. A close reading of the forum's messages find that their members really do feel that Windows 8 will be over-priced and they're finding lots of hardware driver and software incompatibility problems.
Less than 1 in 5 really dislike the UI. The Windows 8 haters are all proclaiming that the UI is what is going to make Windows 8 fail. 1 in 5 don't like it, and these are the early adopters that care about such things. The general public just takes whatever is given to them as long as it works for them, so the impact of the UI on Windows 8 sales is most likely much less. Equating Linux to Windows here doesn't really work, as only power users really use Linux.
Edit: Looking further into it, it is very misleading. Clicking on one of the links takes me to another article, which showed only 26% of the poll's respondents actually used Windows 8.
Basically, if only 26% of the respondents actually used Windows 8, and 25% responded they preferred Windows 8, that actually seems favorable for Windows 8, doesn't it? Haters are saying that the vast majority of people that use Windows 8 is going to hate it, that clearly does not seem to be the case.
Here are the complete survey results.
Here's a link to the survey form. You can see how its laid out.
I'm going to post here what I posted in a different thread on the exact same article.
Sensationalist article taking results out of context.
maybe.. the thing is that i really dont care, if people wants to use 7 forever, so be it, i really dont give a damn, for me it was three years of hell having to use that shit (i skipped vista), even if i ended up only using it for games, it created in me disgust of microsoft as a whole because of it, but.. well, now D4rkn3ss is happy with computer, again.
Once you figure out how to navigate around Windows 8, you realize it's just like Windows 7 but with the Start menu having a totally dedicated area to itself.
I rarely even use the Start screen. I have my Start screen customized with the apps I use and some more commonly-used programs pinned to the task bar. It's really like I'm using Windows 7 except with the awesome ability to span wallpaper AND span the task bar across monitors. heh
- Customize the Start screen by right-clicking shortcuts and selecting to remove the junk you don't want to see. Can also pin stuff and arrange it in groups.
- In the Start screen, press the space bar and click "All apps" to see everything else installed.
- In the Desktop, move your mouse to the top corned and down the edge of your screen to bring up another toolbar.
Basically, you need to accept that the Start screen is a full-screen Start menu. Until more apps use the new interface style you're going to be using the Desktop like you were in Windows 7.
i've been using it since launch (msdn) and you gotta feel sorry for this 7 Joes, win8 is a far cry from that horrendous ridiculous idiotic monkey-coded crap of a OS that made me even go back to linux, its another world, its windows 14 compared to 7, like back to XP days, fast and efficient, with an overall elegant layout, sure they changed the start menu, so fucking what? at least its not like the whole OS offend you by screaming "immah retard" throughout the whole OS like 7 did..
I don't get this thinking. We have all this graphics power, why does the whole OS have to look like a web page from 1995?
I don't get this thinking. We have all this graphics power, why does the whole OS have to look like a web page from 1995?
i've been using it since launch (msdn) and you gotta feel sorry for this 7 Joes, win8 is a far cry from that horrendous ridiculous idiotic monkey-coded crap of a OS that made me even go back to linux, its another world, its windows 14 compared to 7, like back to XP days, fast and efficient, with an overall elegant layout, sure they changed the start menu, so fucking what? at least its not like the whole OS offend you by screaming "immah retard" throughout the whole OS like 7 did..
Fisher Price OS with 500 little colored squares all over the place is an elegant layout?
File manager with that asinine ribbon is efficient?
please be trolling
File manager with that asinine ribbon is efficient?
Fisher Price OS with 500 little colored squares all over the place is an elegant layout?
File manager with that asinine ribbon is efficient?
please be trolling
Fisher Price OS with 500 little colored squares all over the place is an elegant layout?
File manager with that asinine ribbon is efficient?
please be trolling
I imagine that many of the people who hate it do so because of the radical change to it. People by nature are weary of new things. I felt the same way about Windows XP and stuck to the classic theme for a week or so before I said: "Fuck it, let's try this thing the way it was intended and we'll see how it goes." I never went back to the classic mode again.
This is what websites looked like in 1996...
http://web.archive.org/web/19961109092233/http://www.lego.com/
Fisher Price OS with 500 little colored squares all over the place is an elegant layout?
File manager with that asinine ribbon is efficient?
please be trolling
i've been using it since launch (msdn) and you gotta feel sorry for this 7 Joes, win8 is a far cry from that horrendous ridiculous idiotic monkey-coded crap of a OS that made me even go back to linux, its another world, its windows 14 compared to 7, like back to XP days, fast and efficient, with an overall elegant layout, sure they changed the start menu, so fucking what? at least its not like the whole OS offend you by screaming "immah retard" throughout the whole OS like 7 did..
i've been using it since launch (msdn) and you gotta feel sorry for this 7 Joes, win8 is a far cry from that horrendous ridiculous idiotic monkey-coded crap of a OS that made me even go back to linux, its another world, its windows 14 compared to 7, like back to XP days, fast and efficient, with an overall elegant layout, sure they changed the start menu, so fucking what? at least its not like the whole OS offend you by screaming "immah retard" throughout the whole OS like 7 did..
The start screen looks fine.
The ribbon on explorer is a great change, faster to find and get to functions I use.
Not trolling.
Windows 7 runs great! Not sure what problems you had with it, but drivers and all are awesome. Kids ran it fine also.
well.. other thing is that are tons of stuff to solve any of the peoples complaints here, some of you guys should learn to use google or something.. try the windows 8 section of forums.mydigitallife.info for example, im just waiting the official release date to completely disable metro and use a normal start menu, no biggie either way, for now is entertaining.
well.. other thing is that are tons of stuff to solve any of the peoples complaints here, some of you guys should learn to use google or something.. try the windows 8 section of forums.mydigitallife.info for example, im just waiting the official release date to completely disable metro and use a normal start menu, no biggie either way, for now is entertaining.
I was just able to crash windows 8 but didnt get the bsod, i got a frown face saying windows had an error and has to reboot. hehe
How?! I've been trying to get that, but it's hard to crash. There used to be a registry entry you could enable that would force a crash, but I think it's been removed.