Comments on: Windows 8 & Metro with Mouse and Keyboard

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:43:25 +0000

First they tried to jam a desktop OS onto a phone and that was an epic fail, so now they have decided to inflate a touch screen designed OS onto people's desktops. I support 90 people who use 120 systems in our organization. THERE IS NO BUSINESS CASE TO INSTALL THIS!!! There will be some performance based cases such as SMB 3.0 but the amount of time and cost to retrain people would cause so much disruption that anything gained in performance based on faster file transfers would be lost. The same can be said for Server 2012. I have SA so I won't have to pay for it. The deduplication features and other new management tools are great but the GUI is terrible, IMHO. It is almost as if Microsoft said "We'll never be able to beat Apple at the Eye Candy game, let's just revert to 8bit graphics so it will be simpler to design". The "Everyone must use PowerShell" attitude is also driving me nuts. CLI tools are best used for automating batch processes, or quickly displaying extended sets of information. Forcing people to use PS for mundane tasks wastes time due to people having to look-up the insane as hell syntax. It eliminates any sense of convenience that the MS Developers who eat and breath it seem to think it creates.

By: Sajith

Sajith — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:26:17 +0000

Actually Ubuntu 10.10 came with classical Gnome 2 desktop. Only the Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition came with unity interface. Canonical introduced Unity as the default desktop interface with the release of Ubuntu 11.04

By: that guy

that guy — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 07:05:26 +0000

Any browser in any version of windows can go full screen using the F11 key, it removes all the task bars and bookmarks etc... if that is your preference.

By: hkh

hkh — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 04:13:44 +0000

I've tested this version of OS before this, about a month ago. I have one word to say: DISGUSTING. I don't think it makes me to changes my OS. I prefer to use ubuntu rather this wired kind of OS:-D

By: thinkin

thinkin — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 03:59:06 +0000

I saw the heatmap image above and thought it was skin for windows 8 and thought finally windows had designed a nice interface and gotten rid of the god aweful blues and greens!! Ironic that their heat map look better than their normal interface.

By: notatoad

notatoad — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:06:53 +0000

"I don’t fully understand the consequences of binding your computer and your user account to your Hotmail/Messenger/MSDN/Microsoft credentials."

your MS account is your windows store account. anything you download from windows store gets synced across all computers you log in to with that MS account.

By: badp

badp — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:20:57 +0000

CMD, thank you for the report. It wasn't indeed 10.04 (what was I thinking?!) but Ubuntu 10.10 (as Wikipedia confirms).

By: CMD

CMD — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:21:30 +0000

Oh and i forgot to add, I've had decent dual monitors in Linux for a long time qwith Nvidia cards, that is without Unity though.

By: CMD

CMD — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:20:24 +0000

Please research/proof read properly before posting, Unity was not released in Ubuntu 10.0.4 it was 11.04. 10.0.4 came with Gnome2. And uh, since when do Linux users see the GRUB bootloader, if you're using a single boot you rarely see it. And if you want fancy install BURG bootloader.

Other than that, good article, good critique of Win8's flaws.

By: Shinrai

Shinrai — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:03:55 +0000

Great post.

One thing worth noting - in multiple monitor setups, the screen-edge functionality is severely impaired. Win8 is basically unusable with more than one monitor, IMO.