Windows 8

[Reality]

Originally Posted by Rack Bauer

I'm also a bit frustrated with windows 8, but that dude in the video needed to do some homework before jumping in to it.

He obviously had no idea about a lot of the features in this OS or how to use them.


I've been using windows 8 for about 2 months now and once I got the hang of it it wasn't a problem anymore.

I think you missed his point (I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with him, just pointing this out). He was complaining that Windows 8 was not intuitive. I have had both non-tech and tech friends tell me the same thing including a tech friend who is a huge Microsoft fan.

That said, the one thing I wonder is if Windows 8 is confusing and not intuitive due to poor UI/UX design or are users of previous Windows iterations simply locked into doing things a certain way and even when trying to use/learn Windows 8 they are still using the logic and thought process etched into their minds by those older Windows releases?

/reality

[Kangaroo]

Windows 8 is great on a tablet from what I have seen and played with so far very limited at this point. Devices with touch screens etc are great with Win8 but on a regular laptop and desktop it is not as friendly.

The worse part is server 2012 has some of the same unfriendly menus and servers are not going to be touch screen anytime soon.

[Zordon]

Originally Posted by Chocolate Lab

Can't you hit one button and have the traditional desktop view?

yes you can but you still need navigate to the tile view for certain things. this is a very big jump from windows 7 and a risky move by microsoft. i can't see elder people liking this os at all.

[Dallas]

Originally Posted by Zordon

yes you can but you still need navigate to the tile view for certain things. this is a very big jump from windows 7 and a risky move by microsoft. i can't see elder people liking this os at all.

Pretenders bust me up. You cannot 1 click to desktop view.

How are you disabling "metro" with 1 button click?

[BrAinPaiNt]

Originally Posted by Dallas

Pretenders bust me up. You cannot 1 click to desktop view.

How are you disabling "metro" with 1 button click?

I only messed with windows 8 once.

My wife's friend had a laptop with win7 on it and bought a copy of win8. She had trouble installing it so I did it for her.

Had to uninstall a program or two before win 8 would install.

After that it installed without a problem.

Once the tiles came up I clicked ONCE on the tile that said Desktop and it took me straight to the desktop view.

The version she bought was the home and not the pro (I guess they still have a Pro version like others did).

So I don't know if the Pro version is different but you can indeed click once to go to desktop view. However beyond that I don't have a clue as I just looked at a couple of things and then turned the computer off so the wife could take it to her friend.

[Risen Star]

Yeah, you can one click from the tiles for desktop view.

I hated it at first, but once you get the layout and how everything works it isn't a big deal.

[Dallas]

Desktop view and my desktop view are different. Getting Win8 to basically appear and function like Wins7 w/ start menu etc is what I was refering to.

Saying that. I will not be upgrading to Win8 anytime soon.

[BrAinPaiNt]

Originally Posted by Dallas

Desktop view and my desktop view are different. Getting Win8 to basically appear and function like Wins7 w/ start menu etc is what I was refering to.

Saying that. I will not be upgrading to Win8 anytime soon.

I am still stuck with Winxp.

We have a few computers at work with Win7 and they seem to be ok but I am so used to the old system that some of the simplest things seem to be a pain in the but to do in Win7 (mostly network stuff).

But at least none of it is as bad as Windows ME or Windows Vista was with network stuff...I think WinME was the worst.

[Rack Bauer]

Originally Posted by Reality

I think you missed his point (I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with him, just pointing this out). He was complaining that Windows 8 was not intuitive. I have had both non-tech and tech friends tell me the same thing including a tech friend who is a huge Microsoft fan.

That said, the one thing I wonder is if Windows 8 is confusing and not intuitive due to poor UI/UX design or are users of previous Windows iterations simply locked into doing things a certain way and even when trying to use/learn Windows 8 they are still using the logic and thought process etched into their minds by those older Windows releases?

/reality

Yep, good points. I think maybe the reason it isn't frustrating me is cuz I don't really use "all" the functions. But even the stuff I do use, it annoyed me till I figured it out. Now it's no big deal.

Originally Posted by Dallas

Pretenders bust me up. You cannot 1 click to desktop view.

How are you disabling "metro" with 1 button click?

Yes you can. Sort of. But not really.

Originally Posted by BrAinPaiNt

I only messed with windows 8 once.

My wife's friend had a laptop with win7 on it and bought a copy of win8. She had trouble installing it so I did it for her.

Had to uninstall a program or two before win 8 would install.

After that it installed without a problem.

Once the tiles came up I clicked ONCE on the tile that said Desktop and it took me straight to the desktop view.

The version she bought was the home and not the pro (I guess they still have a Pro version like others did).

So I don't know if the Pro version is different but you can indeed click once to go to desktop view. However beyond that I don't have a clue as I just looked at a couple of things and then turned the computer off so the wife could take it to her friend.

Yeah that's how I use it. Though I'm starting to use that view less and less.

Originally Posted by Risen Star

Yeah, you can one click from the tiles for desktop view.

I hated it at first, but once you get the layout and how everything works it isn't a big deal.

Originally Posted by Dallas

Desktop view and my desktop view are different. Getting Win8 to basically appear and function like Wins7 w/ start menu etc is what I was refering to.

Saying that. I will not be upgrading to Win8 anytime soon.

Very true. Yeah you get desktop view, but no start button (which I always hated anyway).

I dunno, the more I use it the more I like it.

[REDVOLUTION]

Originally Posted by Signals

I think what he was communicating is the "box thing" is not needed because we had the start button that worked perfectly of decades.

After watching that video, I won't touch Win 8 with a ten foot pole, ever.

Yeah the box thingy is a "touchy / feely" situation