More Than 3 Out of 4 Enthusiasts Reject Windows 8

[Night Hawk]

A orange is a orange and a pear is a pear; don't get the two confused.
A desktop is a desktop and a tablet is a tablet; don't get the two confused.

Ah gee I thought was what you were supposed to do replace desktop with deskflop! That would be according the MS agenda anyways for seeing a working desktop OS replaced with...??? Tablet and phone apps?!

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I would like to see someone work with a desktop like this on a Win 8 tablet.

 

[Dallas 7]

I would like to see someone work with a desktop like this on a Win 8 tablet.

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.....Or on a Win 8 "Anything".

 

[Night Hawk]

3rd party app solution time! The ModernMix app allows for windowed apps in 8. You just have to window each app as you go along using a 3rd party help tool over always have been seeing this as a default function in Windows. Someone at MS was thinking briliantly one day... daaaa... whatever day that was is still a mystery however!

 

[Faladu]

I expect Windows 9 to come out looking eerily similar to 7.

They screw up every other version, you'd think they'd learn, but that sells upgrades.... their real business plan at work.

 

[SIW2]

I am not expecting MS to dump metro.

They might try and make it less unpalatable, or shift emphasis as a temporary measure.

 

[whs]

I am not expecting MS to dump metro.

They might try and make it less unpalatable, or shift emphasis as a temporary measure.

There is nothing wrong with Metro per se as long as they keep it for touch enabled devices. But it has no place on traditional PCs that have no touch capability. And touchscreens on traditional laptops and desktops are anyhow questionable because of the ergonomics - and also because of the smear.

 

[Faladu]

They should have known to offer both Metro and non-metro desktops at release.

I have been using the same basic Windows design since 1992, that's too engrained at this point.
Before Windows, in 1987 I was using Atari ST's TOS, OS on a chip, instant on, but everything else was run off discs, unless you had a very expensive hard drive, talking $600+ for 30 megs, muhahaha But, people ran BBS's on that little in the good old days. *BLOAT*

 

[Dallas 7]

I am not expecting MS to dump metro.
They might try and make it less unpalatable, or shift emphasis as a temporary measure.

I suspect you're right SIW2.
M$ seemed way too hard headed about Metro and their "one size fit's all" concept to give up on it, they'll probably just rewrap the package a little bit to try and fool the public and give it another shot.
If so, I hope the public throws it back in their face again.

 

[gregrocker]

They have called another Global MVP Summit for November, after just having one in February. I wonder what's up. It's a huge expense surely costing them millions.

 

[Night Hawk]

I am not expecting MS to dump metro.

They might try and make it less unpalatable, or shift emphasis as a temporary measure.

There is nothing wrong with Metro per se as long as they keep it for touch enabled devices. But it has no place on traditional PCs that have no touch capability. And touchscreens on traditional laptops and desktops are anyhow questionable because of the ergonomics - and also because of the smear.

I wouldn't expect them to be dumping the Metro "Modern" gui anytime soon either! Just watch them compare a Win 8 tablet to the IPad to get a better idea on their entire marketing schemes! "oh how glorious and fast our new... is compared to the ... !!!" daaaa... Even for seeing touchscreen enabled on the desktop you are still looking at a "Tablet" not "Desktop" touch & swipe gui that simply doesn't work for the desktop!

 

[gregrocker]

Noticing more Win7 for sale on daily NewEgg, Buy.com and Tiger Direct emails. Nice that they aren't trying to hide it any longer and will let consumers buy it more easily. Not seeing any similar 8 listings.

They need to put 7 back on new PC's soon to meet consumer demand, or at least offer a choice.

 

[Berkey]

Noticing more Win7 for sale on daily NewEgg, Buy.com and Tiger Direct emails. Nice that they aren't trying to hide it any longer and will let consumers buy it more easily. Not seeing any similar 8 listings.

They need to put 7 back on new PC's soon to meet consumer demand, or at least offer a choice.

My guess is that Ms will give it an 8 month period, which will include the holiday season and post holiday sales to see if Blue is at least enough of a fix to consider 8 " afloat". Then once they see what I suspect a marginal increase of sales, they will put 7 or at least the option for 7 on desktops and begin a new OS or add another SP.

 

[Night Hawk]

We'll have to see if any SP2 for 7 will ever be out. Octobar will be 4yrs. since 7 launched and still no SP2 beta in the works. But that's also how MS works like SP3 finally coming out for XPee to fix all those bugs MS simply let go only when 7 was about to be launched with so many months back in 2009. MS won't want to re-release 7 all over since 7 is a working OS! That means people would rather hang onto something that DOES over jumping around with garbage you have to replace every couple of years!

 

[Lone Browncoat]

They should have known to offer both Metro and non-metro desktops at release.

I have been using the same basic Windows design since 1992, that's too engrained at this point.
Before Windows, in 1987 I was using Atari ST's TOS, OS on a chip, instant on, but everything else was run off discs, unless you had a very expensive hard drive, talking $600+ for 30 megs, muhahaha But, people ran BBS's on that little in the good old days. *BLOAT*

Yep, they were powerful in their day, better than 640k DOS.

 

[Lone Browncoat]

We'll have to see if any SP2 for 7 will ever be out. October will be 4yrs. since 7 launched and still no SP2 beta in the works. But that's also how MS works like SP3 finally coming out for XPee to fix all those bugs MS simply let go only when 7 was about to be launched with so many months back in 2009.

Then I'll order [as before] the 5-10$ CD for off-line installations, if they ever do one.

 

[Night Hawk]

The idea for seeing a service is often to bring in a new support for something as well as wrapping up a number of small updates like security fixes, etc. I think one of the main reason there hasn't been a rush to see a second SP out is due to the original efforts put into 7 to make it a "Works Right Out of The Box" type success rather then being loaded with bugs you saw with the previous versions going back to 2000 which saw 6 of them!

 

[PaulGo]

Windows 8 users snub Metro apps, stick to traditional Windows software

The majority of Windows 8 PC owners launch less than one app a day



A majority of consumer and small business Windows 8 PC users launch fewer than one "Metro" app a day, signaling that they're spending most of their time on the classic Windows 7-style Desktop, according to data released this week.
According to Soluto, an Israeli PC management service provider, just 39 percent of owners of desktop PCs powered by Windows 8 launch a Metro app more than once a day. Laptop users fire up a Metro app slightly more often, with 40 percent opening an average of more than one app daily. Even touch-enabled notebooks infrequently access Metro: 42 percent of the owners of those devices launch more than one app a day.

Windows 8 users snub Metro apps, stick to traditional Windows software | Microsoft Windows - InfoWorld

 

[Layback Bear]

I don't believe their will be a SP-2 for Windows 7.
Microsoft doesn't want to make Windows 7 better. They want us to get up off Windows 7 and buy Windows 8.
Microsoft makes no money offering a new SP for Windows 7. They make money selling Windows 8.

 

[Indianatone]

I would like to see someone work with a desktop like this on a Win 8 tablet.

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Um that looks like something I would be doing on two machines....File management and stuff whilst playing music files that I have just ripped.