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

[Timo]

If it's going to be another US only thing like the Zune i'm going to be super mad (although i'll probably never end up getting one).

[DarkHalo003]

Needs more giving a fuck.

[t3h m00kz]

I heard they announced a W8 tablet yesterday?

too bad we already had this!!!!!

[DarkHalo003]

Like I said, needs more giving a fuck.

[Patrickssj6]

Much drama in the beginning about the secret press conference. The tablet didn't blew me away but the Zune did not either back then and now 6 years later it's still functioning every day.

I would never use a tablet anyway, I just don't have any need for one in every possible way.

[thehoodedsmack]

Except for that one day where every Zune everywhere crashed. Mine still works perfectly too, btw.

[DarkHalo003]

I like Zune. It just has a crappy marketplace with a very limited selection and is a bit stale in the games department. Battery life is also very questionable for me at least.
Otherwise, I like it a lot. It's really cool to have a built in Radio that can pick up channels almost anywhere a car can too.

[rossmum]

FYI, the word inside Microsoft is that they don't give a shit if half of their users don't like the Windows 8 experience. The metro integration is permanent, and absolutely will not be reverted under any circumstances. Any anti-metro feedback, including feedback on how to lessen the intrusion of metro into the normal desktop, is not even being considered.

The thing that really worries me most is that the writing is on the wall for the failure of Windows 8, and they are completely ignoring it.

this is really telling.

everyone has been doing it. there has been a steady move towards this sort of deal for a long time. youtube's layout/functionality changes, forced upon users. facebook's forced changes. now this. i don't know what the fucking goal is (or if there is one), does this shit actually appeal to the drooling, retarded masses or something? i can't even begin to imagine how the fuck i would use windows 8 for more than ten seconds without killing myself. it is so counterintuitive, and so dumbed down, it hurts.

i mean there's dumbed down, and then there's "so dumb that your more intelligent users physically cannot use it". fuck the world. i'm sticking with windows 7 forever, looks like.

[rossmum]

ps tablets can get fucked and i neither want nor need one

[jcap]

I don't even understand how people can say that Windows 8 is "dumbed down." In my opinion, it's more confusing than anything else. Although the UI is simple in design, it is not simple to use. Removing all well-known UI items, hiding menus, throwing users back and forth between two separate UIs, and crippling multitasking doesn't make a computer more friendly to "dumb" users. In fact, it just makes it more complicated and confusing. "Counterintuitive" is the correct term to describe the experience with Windows 8.

What really irks me is how Steve Sinofsky (the cuntbag in charge of the Windows 8 development; also the bastard who who presented the W8 tablet during the crash on stage) brags about the UI changes on the development blog. In his blogs, he frequently compares to the iPad's iOS UI. He likes to talk about how more of the screen is spent on metro tiles opposed to frequently used UI functions. What he is too fucking stupid to realize is that "in your face" UI items actually have a purpose. Users shouldn't have to hunt around for the correct menu, even if it is only one "swipe" gesture away. Are they honestly trying to argue against the most successful, and arguably the most user-friendly UI designs of the past 10 years?

Windows 8 is late to the show, and although they ARE innovating in some areas, it's not what users are going to want. Microsoft is following in HP/Palm's footsteps with the Pre and the Touchpad, and we all know how that panned out in the end.