Windows 8 is so ugly

Last Thursday, I attended a Microsoft event launch for several of their new products. While most of it was Windows Server 2012 focused, it spent an hour long session on Windows 8. Maybe it was the fact I was sitting through a live demo, or maybe it was due to the fact that the presenter was excellent, but I walked away with an absolutely new appreciation for Windows 8 and what it is trying to accomplish.

Even the instructor said that most people, including himself, did not find Windows 8 too appealing in the beginning, but after actual usage, find themselves loving the features. Microsoft makes it very easy to try (at no cost) so what do you have to lose?

The Features are all Well and Good BUT it is the UI that I do not want and I will not use. Simple fact is MS Screwed up. Fine for pad and phone, Not so for desktop or notebook. Win 8 UI just isn't going to cut it, for me that is.

Tried it Do Not Like it.

I cannot agree more!!! Win 8 looks like a kid's toy! I don't want to "tap" anything. Julien Manici put out a alpha app for 7 that gives you a look at what the "wonderful" experience would look like, without compromising your box. Grrrrooaaaannnnn................ Dell has some good deals on desktops right now and, by gosh!, in comes with win7 Pro! Somebody is thinking. I agree with Lady Fitzgerald; it's MY box and I will decide what it does and when. I don't need Redmond in my face!

If that's your only complaint, that's like saying you refuse to drive a new car because you don't like the smell of the tires. My Windows 8 install boots and looks just like Windows 7...going right to the desktop. I find myself using the Metro UI screen almost like a screensaver. I switch to that when I'm working on something else on my desk, so I have a "live update" of sorts on my screen. When I'm back needing to use my computer, I am back on the desktop.

Yeah and I won't drive a car in the US with the steering wheel on the right. No matter what kind it was.

Sorry but there is no logical reason for having to make all those changes. MS should of made them, and or given the user the choice, from the beginning.

Good for you.

I have no problems with people sticking to Windows 7. I plan to do so on certain systems of mine as well.

The part I took issue with is what I'd call the "Vista Effect". It's baseless bashing of a product that comes from hearsay, at best. In fact, many of the criticisms in this very thread can be considered baseless, as admitted by those posting them that they didn't come from experience. Others, can be completely dissolved with a quick setting or tweak. There's merit to the debate of what choices Microsoft should have included, but they hardly "forcing" anyone to use a certain UI. If that were true, Microsoft would be blocking and barring all 3rd party attempts to add those features in, and I can say with first hand knowledge, they won't be doing so.

If someone doesn't want to use Windows 8, so be it, it's their systems...but there's no need to bash the product, or turn a nose up to it.