Noted, but his primary issue was the buggyiness, not aesthetics. Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 20, 2012, at 8:22 AM, Luke Jaconetti <[email protected]> wrote: > While I am sure that Windows 8 is a disaster in progress, having an Apple > blogger review it is akin to having a Clemson alumni review the dorms and > dining halls at USC. Does one really expect them to be open and impartial? > Weak. > > > On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 10:06:02 PM UTC-5, cwpreston wrote: >> Windows 8- don't do it. >> >> >> >> Sent to you by cwpreston via Google Reader: >> >> >> Your trusty TUAW blogger tries Windows 8 >> via TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog by Mel Martin on 12/18/12 >> >> >> I'm pretty much a hard-and-fast Mac guy. I've had Apple products since the >> Apple II, and bought my first Mac when they came out in 1984, so I have a >> lot of history with Apple. >> >> For a variety of reasons, I need to use a PC laptop to run a variety of >> astronomical automation programs, and my 10-year-old Toshiba laptop running >> Windows XP has been slowly dying. With all the holiday sales going on at >> this time of year, I grabbed an HP laptop at a low price. It runs Windows 8, >> which is sort of intriguing, but the best part is that all my software >> vendors assured me that their software would run fine under the Windows 8 >> desktop mode, which is essentially Windows 7. >> >> Fresh out of the box, I played a bit with Windows 8. Without a touch screen, >> it was a pretty painful experience. Not knowing the GUI very well -- and >> without any helpful prompts or introductions on the part of Windows 8 -- >> there were a lot of dead ends and right-clicking in corners. I'm sure I'll >> figure it out in time. >> >> After an hour or so of use, I received a notification that Windows 8 needed >> an update from HP. No problem... except there was a problem. The update >> didn't "take" the first time, but it did on the second try. I should have >> regarded that as a bad omen, and a few minutes later Microsoft let me know >> that there was a Windows 8 update available. What the heck, maybe it fixed >> the HP issue? >> >> I accepted the update, and the laptop happily re-booted. Uh-oh! Now >> something was definitely wrong. Windows reported it was 13 percent through >> the update, but the percentage just sat there at 13 percent. And sat. And >> sat some more. It stayed that way for about 20 minutes, and then the machine >> restarted again after telling me the update didn't work. I restarted once >> again with fingers crossed. Nope. Stuck at 13 percent. >> >> It was time to do some research. Googling "Microsoft update 13%", I hit the >> mother lode. Page after page of people running into the same problem at 13 >> percent. I found one solution that seemed reasonable, but when I printed it >> out it was in excess of three pages of instructions. I sighed, dived in and >> fixed the problem. That was last week; this week I saw a Microsoft support >> note about the issue stating that perhaps that previous update didn't fix >> the problem. >> >> I am pretty tech savvy, so I could follow some of the twisted instructions >> to manually fix the update. If I had been a novice Windows user and these >> issues were my first taste of Windows 8, I would have been livid. I wasn't >> too happy, sitting there cussing out Steve Ballmer for delivering an >> operating system that made a computer fresh out of the box one update away >> from a fail. >> >> As regular TUAW readers know, I'm fairly critical of Apple. Apple Maps was >> not the greatest moment for the company, and there have been some pretty >> flaky versions of OS X in the past. MobileMe was never satisfying, and Apple >> iMessage on iOS is still hit and miss. Still, the kind of update problem I >> experienced with Windows 8 is pretty inexcusable. >> >> There are already plenty of public doubts about the viability of Windows 8, >> and giving new users a steaming pile instead of a reliable update to fix >> some unexplained issue is horrific. As I sat there staring at a frozen >> screen with no solution in sight without having an extra computer -- my Mac >> -- available to search for an answer, I remembered that Apple had never, >> ever dealt me these kinds of cards. Yes, I've had to re-boot from a few >> updates, but nothing like this. It would be one thing if it was just me and >> my Windows 8 laptop had some special configuration, but lots of people were >> burned with the same issue with brand new hardware. >> >> Microsoft -- it just "doesn't work," and more and better testing is needed. >> >> Apple is far from perfect, but as the old saying goes, you don't get a >> second chance to make a first impression. Microsoft, this is no way to >> compete with Apple's out-of-the box experience. No way at all. >> >> Your trusty TUAW blogger tries Windows 8 originally appeared on TUAW - The >> Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:00:00 EST. 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