[AccessD] Windows 8

Bill,

You nailed it with " The tale is in the numbers."  I am talking the actual installations and revenue of Windows 7 vs Windows 8.x.  Which is in itself a clear reflection of customer demand.  

Have a look at 
<< http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0>>


The customer has spoken so loudly that PC makers have jumped up and taken notice.
<< http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/20/5326844/hp-brings-back-windows-7-by-popular-demand>>

Ok, some folks like W8, but many more don't see a value proposition in there. You can defend it as much as you like, but the fact is it is a commercial failure.

W7 has about 47% of the market.
Amazingly, XP still has about 29% of the market.
W8 and W8.1 just have around 10%.

It is clear that not many folks like it or see any productive gain in upgrading.  And I would guess that a large chunk of that 10% of W8 users and Mum and Dad types who purchased a new PC with W8 pre installed and don't know any better.

Windows 8 is confused mess.  In trying to be all things to all users and platforms - it ends up doing nothing well.  That is my opinion anyway.

Perhaps W9 will be better.  Dunno.  I personally loathe this current trend of dumbing everything down and hiding (or worse, removing) functionality.

W8, not a fan.

Cheers
Darryl.








-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bill Benson
Sent: Wednesday, 5 March 2014 1:51 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Windows 8

The tale is in the numbers.

7 is the perfect number. 8 a crazy one, Google eyes at a 90 degree angle. 9 may be a universal number but trying to be all things to all people has never worked.

Windows could have stopped at 7. I think Big Business and government will conspire to leave MS in droves, and for good too, if MS "forces" them to upgrade through dropping support for Win 7.

Win 8 is too radical a departure from what people want on the desktop, and not (arguably) beneficial the way the ribbon was (a learning curve but some benefit at the end of the discovery/learning curve). Win 8 offers no benefit to users except change for change's sake. It was like putting a bidet next to a sink so people who like to read on the toilet will want to read in the kitchen (yes that makes no sense as an analogy and therefore marvelously appropo).

I tried it and hated it, pure gilded crap.
On Mar 4, 2014 5:34 PM, "John W Colby" <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:

> >>>They're just horizontally sliding windows now ;-)
>
> No they are NOT.  A window has horizontal and VERTICAL handles for 
> adjustment.  Panes are ALWAYS full height.  A window can be positioned 
> anywhere on the screen.  A Pane is always docked to one side or the 
> other, or to the pane next to it.
>
> A Pane is a lobotomized window with no variable vertical dimension and 
> no ability to place it where I want.
>
> It is "Immersive"  LOL.  Which means MS has "Immersed" YOU in their 
> bullshit until you forget what you used to have, ignore the reality 
> and believe it is "better".
>
> Not having gone through the pain of drowning in the MS bullshit and 
> accepting whatever it is they want me to believe, I have become... a 
> Luddite curmudgeon Windows 7 fanbois.
>
> Oh well... I'll have to live with that I guess.  ;)
>
> John W. Colby
>
> Reality is what refuses to go away
> when you do not believe in it
>
> On 3/4/2014 3:09 PM, John Bartow wrote:
>
>> They're just horizontally sliding windows now ;-)
>>
>>
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