Windows 8 .. ..worse than Vista!

[pauland]

Steven, I think you right - we are in a transition period. Windows 8 will get there in the end, even if it has to become windows 9!

Hardware is changing fast.

[vincewicks]

What will matter will be real live performance (speed, stability) compared to Windows 7 and other OS and you can't tell much about those factors, yet.

People are overreacting on Windows 8. Yes it's different, but that doesn't mean it's worse. It takes a little getting used to if you used a different OS before, but that's the case with all new things, normally. Sure Windows 95 till 7 got the same GUI, basically. But trying something a little new isn't bad in days of touchscreens everywhere, even desktops have them...

[vincewicks]

What will matter will be real live performance (speed, stability) compared to Windows 7 and other OS and you can't tell much about those factors, yet.

People are overreacting on Windows 8. Yes it's different, but that doesn't mean it's worse. It takes a little getting used to if you used a different OS before, but that's the case with all new things, normally. Sure Windows 95 till 7 got the same GUI, basically. But trying something a little new isn't bad in days of touchscreens everywhere, even desktops have them...

[steve.ledger]

...even desktops have them...

And that's a good thing how exactly?
I have spend years and years training children, family, friends and customers to keep their finger OFF screens, then someone decides that making screens you need to touch is a good idea?
Bonkers

[Rik]

Whether we agree or not, almost all new mobiles have nothing but touch-screens. No more keys to press to dial or text. It's the virtual keyboard, or nothing, on these phones!

We weren't asked whether we wanted it or not, it was decided by... well, someone!

[steve.ledger]

Smartphones and pads are a different kettle of fish altogether, I'm with you there Rik

[pauland]

A someone who occasionally swipes his finger across the screen, I look forward to the day when it actually works, which can't be too far away now.

Windows 8 is in a difficult place - a transition between mobile and desktop. Windows 7 is a perfectly good OS, so the move to W8 isn't an imperative and when you do get there, the desktop version leaves you in essentially a mixture between both worlds.

On my Mac, it sometimes feels like I'm using an iPad. I can swipe across the trackpad and move between multiple screens. The app launcher is very similar. If I had a 15" iPad with the power of the MacBook and a clip-on keyboard, I'd be very, very happy. Microsoft is trying that trick with the surface.

Windows on mobile is getting some very good feedback. I often wonder about Steve Balmer though, he has a charisma bypass to say the least.

[gwpriester]

I've been using Windows 8 since the first of year.

I also have a Nokia Lumea with Windows 7.5 which was like a pre-release of Windows 8.

I like it. I did not try to make it like Windows 7. What's the point? It takes almost no time to get the idea.

I do get the feeling that the product is not quite there yet. Unless you are dealing with one of the Metro apps, you are working in the Window's 7 desktop. I would have expected more integration and a one screen environment. Or at the least, a desktop environment that looks like it belongs to the Metro screen world.

[technobyte]

Speaking of windows 8 i came to know that the security of the os is to low compared to win7

[cmpan1]

just install the open source 'classic shell' (3 minutes )

set it boot to the desktop

and stop whining........

there... you have Windows 7 back