Meatspinner said:
I'll just wait for the actual reveal that's happening next month
Ed130 said:
DeadRise17 said:
I'll just have to keep telling myself even Microsoft wouldn't be THAT stupid. If it is, simply put: I won't buy it.
You've obviously never dealt with Microsoft before, yes they
can be that stupid. One just has to look at Windows 8.
What's so bad about Win8? Other then the "I'm old and It's different" rhetoric?
Having just gotten to use it, I can answer that.
As a system that operates your PC, it's perfectly fine.
As an example of UI design, it gets a big fat zero. The it's designed to make operating your PC like an appliance. That's OK for a lot of people, but the deeper you hide the power-user tools, the dumber the system becomes. Win8 does just that with no option to return to a power-user UI.
To make things worse, it doesn't even follow it's own rules to bury the more complex things away from the ignorant public. You can get into the disk manager with 2 clicks (Right-click the start corner, left click "disk management"), and another 3 clicks later, you could delete your hard drive (Select partition, delete, confirm). All the windows up to this point required a lot of digging just to get to some tools that destructive, with each step bringing the feeling of being more and more lost in the dangerous part of their system. On my Win7 machine, I have to click Start > Control panel > Administrative tools > Computer management > Disk manager to get there. Along the way, you're going to see some scary applet titles like Event Viewer, Services, Component Services and Local Security Policy. If you don't know what you're doing, you know you'd better not click on anything. None of that is going to be implied to you if you're just clicking things on a context menu on your desktop.
OT: Yes, I agree with this post-chain. I think MS just might be that dumb. Adam Orth is a strong indication of that. No one that stupid should have had that much power over a company that big.