Rocky Smolin
rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Fri May 24 15:35:11 CDT 2013
What he said... R -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: May 24, 2013 12:57 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: [dba-Tech] Windows 8: Not! I have yet to encounter a single person who likes the WIn8 interface. Not on, in my admiddedly small number of participants (~200), Not one single person prefers this; I am getting one-hour gigs to please roll this back to WIndows 7, which I can understand. This Win8 shyte may be fine for newbies but anyone acquainted with the old school feels alone and isolated, and suddenly I have a new (albeit very short) customer relationship which involves nuking Windows 8 and replacing it with Windows 7. I can't conceive of a worse scenario for an OS than this So far as I can see, not one single person in the universe (outside of Redmond) considers this an advance. Already I have had 20+ clients begging me to roll back Win8 to something they can understand. Overall conclusion: Win8 was a very very bad idea and those responsible for its deployment should be lined up against a wall and summarily executed. Why on on earth did these people think this was a Good Thing? Where were their minds on that day? This is the most asinine interface ever developed. Bigger buttons = Cool? WTF were these people thinking? Maybe for the 1% who just got into computing, this might seem coo. But for the other 99% who already own at least one computer and probably several more, this new interface is an advance into stupidity. It is Wrong, wrong, wrong, But on the up-side, I've suddenly got an unexpected revenue stream involving un-installing Win8 and replacing it with the far more intelligible Win7. At this writing, I'm at 38 clients who have requested this retrofit. By the end of the month, I expect this to hit 50 -- which is insignificant in the big MS picture, I realize, but in my local tiny pond, it matters a lot, and not one single frog in said pond is happy with Windows8. And that's not my fault. I had no part to play in their decisions. They bought new hardware and hated the OS and asked me to bail them out. So I rolled them back to Win7 and they are once again happy campers. And so am I, a) because they are happy; b) because I hate Win8 and even more, hate trying to fix problems with it; and c) more and more of my clients are moving (at my insistence) to Linux, specifically Mint but any other version will suffice. I'm running out of gas trying to support anything on Windows. It is simply too complicated for an old-timer such as myself. Way easier to support Linux apps! -- Arthur Cell: 647.710.1314 Prediction is difficult, especially of the future. -- Niels Bohr _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com