[dba-Tech] Windows 8: Not!

I like it... once I'd installed Classic Shell to make it look like Windows 7
:-)


Jon

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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hans-Christian
Andersen
Sent: 24 May 2013 22:48
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Windows 8: Not!

I only know of two people who like Windows 8 and they frequent this mailing
list. ;)

Well, in some ways I'm appreciative of Windows 8. It's finally made Linux a
more attractive and viable option. :)

- Hans


On 2013-05-24, at 12:56 PM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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> 
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