One in five housewives found that "apps" wasn't as good as "search". Nine out of ten developers on this sampled agreed that I made up those stats.
:) --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, David Richards < [email protected]> wrote: > Greetings all, > > I've been staying out of this conversation because I hadn't actually > used windows 8. I decided to install it and see what all the fuss was > about. So my impression after a couple of minutes poking around > follows: > > I decided the UI design was terrible within seconds. It's clearly > aimed at small screens, which is fine. But it doesn't take into > account larger screens and adjust accordingly. > > The missing Start button people are complaining about, as far as I > could tell, is still there. It's just microscopic and invisible and > activated by hovering. I tried clicking on the desktop icon (tile, > whatever) and got stuck on the desktop. I had to be told about these > mysterious hot corners. Any UI that has invisible elements is a bad > UI. Of course, the Start button just takes you back to those enormous > space wasting tiles. > > So then I tried pointing at corners and found a Search button. I > clicked it expecting a computer/internet search and instead got a full > screen style All Programs menu. That in itself if fine but why call > it Search? Is that just to be different to "Apps" or did people not > understand "Programs"? > > Anyway, I just thought people might be interested in the first > impressions of a developer who has been ignoring win7 and win8 up > until now. I'll poke around a bit more over lunch. > > David > > "If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes > will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!" > -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama >
