[dba-Tech] Windows 8: Not!

Hi Shamil:

I will partially agree with you. 

Aside: I do not think Arthur has any particular "axe to grind" when it comes
to Win8 but I sense a very strong feeling of frustration, especially coming
from his client's acceptance of Microsoft's latest offering and he is just
reflecting their opinions.

It appears that Microsoft has done fine job on their Windows 8 phones and
everyone who has one likes it. This does not mean that I will run out and
buy anything other than an Android phone. (I do not dislike iPods either but
prices and features are everything.)

Unfortunately, the Microsoft way of force feeding the public, through
pre-loaded platforms, its Windows 8 desktop product is hardly an indication
the OS's acceptance or rejection. 

If a customer, when buying a PC, tablet or Phone, could at the moment of
purchase, select their OS, a much more accurate view of audience preference
could be established. Given a level playing field, I would suspect, sales of
MS's desktop version would go down, tablet sales would go up and phone sales
would stay the same.

Jim   

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Shamil
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 10:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Windows 8: Not!

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
> 
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