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

[Btcc22]

If you haven't checked out their enterprise products, they're really awesome.

Sure, I believe you.

[jcap]

I still don't understand why they still refuse to highlight the usefulness of tiles if done right. For tiles to be successful, everything needs to be live - like tile widgets. The tile for the weather app needs to show the current conditions (which you click on to get the full forecast). The mail app should give you the latest message subject and/or sender (and clicking on it should bring you straight to the message). The Music tile should be the "now playing" song and album art (background), and it should have live controls for pause, stop, skip, or jumping to playlist. Twitter should display the latest tweet. Basically, they NEED to turn the start menu into a combination of jump lists, notification menus, and a dashboard. They've failed to do that for two years with Windows 8.

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft...s-8-live-tiles

It's only taking them 3 years to get Windows 8 into an "acceptable" state. The writing wasn't on the wall back then, if they had just listened.

Please make me president of the Windows division, thanks.

[Tnnaas]

An "acceptable" state still doesn't benefit power users. The functionaloity of the live tiles is actually pretty cool though, but I've never been able to sit down and actually play with a machine running the latst Windows 8.1 update. I'll try keeping bias to a minimum, but I have enough quirk settings ducktaped to my machine that jumping from it to Windows 8.1 might be annoying and awkward.

My mother got a Nokia Lumia or whatever running the latest version Windows Phone 8. Maybe the interactivity between phone and PC would be pretty beneficial for her at work and home. Me on the otherhand, I'll wait until the next Windows XP SP1 of the future comes out; Windows 10 or something, or by then it might be called Windows One. :v

Also, you must post desk before being promoted to president of Windows, jcap.

[Rosco]

It's only taking them 3 years to get Windows 8 into an "acceptable" state. The writing wasn't on the wall back then, if they had just listened.

Please make me president of the Windows division, thanks.

"they're just..

they're just taking windows and they're raping it"


- jcap on windows 8

[Amit]

Windows 9's start menu:



Microsoft really knows how to fuck up things that work and replace them with things that make no sense. Fucking ads in your start menu.

[Tnnaas]

Are those ads? I thought they were Windows Apps aka a feature (a dumb feature, but a Win8/9 feature nonetheless).

[Zeph]

Are those ads? I thought they were Windows Apps aka a feature (a dumb feature, but a Win8/9 feature nonetheless).

likely something rss based

[Rentafence]

Theyre obviously metro applications you can pin to the start menu. Are you guys really that autistic?

[Amit]

Are those ads? I thought they were Windows Apps aka a feature (a dumb feature, but a Win8/9 feature nonetheless).

Quite obviously an news app/widget of some sort, but an ad nonetheless. Honestly, who really wants that shit clogging up their start menu?

[Zeph]

Theyre obviously metro applications you can pin to the start menu. Are you guys really that autistic?

Umm, my left turn signal clacked 71 times before I could make a left turn to my bank today.