Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Sat May 25 00:00:59 CDT 2013
Hi Arthur -- > I have yet to encounter a single person who likes the WIn8 interface Count me in the ones who likes Win8/WinPhone interfaces. Thank you. -- Shamil Friday, May 24, 2013 3:56 PM -04:00 from Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>: > 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