The Windows 8 and other failed Microsoft products thread - Windows 8 "relaunches" Feb

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inb4 jcap is mad

runnin it right now, pain in the ass not having the traditional start menu, finding stuff is confusing.

Been using it for an hour or so now. Oh my god is this a piece of shit or what?

yah i already booted back into windows.

only good for tablet pcs.

It's ok but yeah I need a tablet to try this out on

How different is it from the last one they released?

Now that it's officially in beta, all complaints are valid and can't be excused any longer.

First off, I want to just say that they haven't fixed jack shit since the developer preview, and this operating system sucks even more now than it did then.

All they have continued to do is FUCK with the status quo and standard functions you would expect of an operating system

Don't like metro? FUCK YOU. You're stuck with it, you're forced to use it, you can't escape it.

The control panel is now officially split in half - half desktop, half metro. You cannot do 100% of anything in either. What the fuck is this load of shit?

All UI items are now hidden from view. You must move the mouse to a corner of your monitor and hold it there for a second, wait for the menu to pop up, and sometimes (like with task switching) you need to make a cryptic mouse gestures to be able to see all your running applications. The corner of your screen is actually a 5px square. What if you have multiple monitors and you don't actually have any corners of your screen to "nest" the mouse in? HAHA go fuck yourself single monitors are superior in Windows 8.

If you accidentally find yourself thrown into metro, the escape key is your friend. Otherwise, there's no area out unless you use the stupid corner bullshit.

The button to shut down your computer is located under a hidden "Settings" menu.

You still can't have metro applications in regular desktop windows.

You absolutely MUST have a Microsoft Account (a Windows Live ID) to be able to use any apps that require authentication. Yeah. Wow. You can't have a Live ID associated with a local account...you actually need to switch your ENTIRE user profile to a Microsoft account. Don't like it? TOUGH SHIT!

Microsoft considers this to be innovative and "fast and fluid." I consider it to be a flop, a disconnection with its users, a disassociation of their existing brand, and a total clusterfuck of an operating system.

This operating system is hardly intuitive. Microsoft claims it's intuitive. It's the complete opposite. Microsoft tried to make it simple - and for using a single app it is - but at the same time it's way too complicated. If it takes a 10 minute video to explain how to perform basic functions such as task switching to your users who have been using Windows for 15 years, you lost sight of your ease of use objective way back! Swiping mouse gestures and hidden menus is not intuitive.

"Let's hide all the interface buttons everyone is familiar with so no one knows how2use computar or where they are so they are stuck in a single application indefinitely!!!!!"
"THAT'S BRILLIANT YOU SHOULD CLEARLY BE CEO!"

Microsoft might as well just rebrand this OS too "Window" 8.

Steve Sinofsky needs to choke on a million dicks and get fucked. That asshole doesn't deserve his current position or to be next in line for CEO. He and Ballmer have utterly destroyed Windows and the company as a whole. I just hope the board members grow the balls to fire those two fucking cunts. If IE's history is anything to go by, maybe they'll finally do something when Windows has only 40% market share left.

this will bomb.

"Apps" "Apps" "Gesture" "Cloud" "App" "Apps"

if they try to force this down everybody's throats like they did with vista, I'm switching to ubuntu 10.04 as my full time OS

I'll just stick to W7 as my full time OS. Like millions of people decided to do with XP when everyone bitched about Vista.