I get the feeling windows 8 will turn out to be a bigger dud than vista
or Bob. Anyone disagree?
On 12/31/2012 03:39 AM, Nathan England wrote:
That is hysterical! The first real computer I owned was a Compaq
Presario 486DX2, 66MHz with 4 MB of ram and it came with Windows 3.1?
and Bob. I thought it was a game or something and I could never figure
it out, so I deleted it. It was later that day that I found the Yahoo!
page for operating systems and discovered linux. I was hoping to find
the Mac OS like I had at school to run on my pc. I had no idea they
were such totally different beasts... That was a long time ago!
I have Windows 7 Enterprise 90 eval on a partition of my workstation
for testing and IE use when necessary, and Netflix. My wife will
occasionaly use my laptop for checking her email in Firefox. I decided
to see how realistic these stupid usability videos are with a fairly
non-technical user who is not afraid to click around, so I installed
Window(s?) 8 on my system and didn't say a word. Unfortunately, I was
never able to surprise her with the system change, as she came into my
office to ask me what all the grumbling and griping was about. I was
laughing so hard, and then grunting and moaning, then laughing, she
thought I was playing a game or something. So I had to explain what it
was.
It has been a week now that I have been using Windows 8. I installed
my development tools on it and decided I would try it for a little
while. I have two screens. Any of you experience this wonderful system
with two screens yet? You think this new system is fubar when you only
have one screen? Try two!
I really do like the Netflix "app" that I was able to download from
the app store. The interface rocks. As long as you don't use it. Are
you serious? This thing is useless! Search for movies? you have to
exit the app, use the "charms" bar, type in your search, then select
the Netflix app to search in... Hello ! What usability expert approved
this?
Then it suffers from the typical windows "I don't know how long this
will take to transfer, so I'll make something up" dialog box. When you
use the netflix website and you click somewhere in the video timeline
it will jump to that section and dispaly a bar or circle thing showing
how much is buffering. In the netflix app it is obvious it is
depending on windows for this info. It will start at 0 and quickly
move to 100% then suddenly its at 50% and climbs to 100%, then it
drops to like 15% and s....l....o....w...l...y... moves to about 27%
and suddenly starts playing the video... That's IF it acutally seeks
correctly.
Windows 8 really is not usable as a real system. Cygwin is screwed and
not even fun to use anymore. Putty is the same old ugly putty, nothing
can make it worse.
Try setting a different browser as the default and all the "apps" that
are designed to use IE as the browser will fail, or at least kick you
to the desktop with no obvious way back to your Modern UI. How many
people know there is a windows button on their keyboards? If you don't
know that, good luck click the 60 pixel wide button to get back to
Modern!!!
Just my .02
Nathan
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