Microsoft Co-founder Dings Windows 8 As 'Puzzling, Confusing'

CWmike writes "Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has called Windows 8 'puzzling' and 'confusing initially,' but assured users that they would eventually learn to like the new OS. Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, left the company in 1983 after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. In a post to his personal blog on Tuesday, Allen said he has been running Windows 8 Release Preview — the public sneak peak Microsoft shipped May 31 — on both a traditional desktop as well as on a Samsung 700T tablet, designed for Windows 7. 'I did encounter some puzzling aspects of Windows 8,' Allen wrote, and said the dual, and dueling user interfaces (UIs), were confusing. 'The bimodal user experience can introduce confusion, especially when two versions of the same application — such as Internet Explorer — can be opened and run simultaneously,' Allen said."

Comments

You'll learn to like it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Or we'll fucking kill you!!

Like he said

[Mska]

Users will like it in the end. Just like people like Ribbon now, even if they were confused first.

Re:Just like the new Office Ribbon interface

[bmo]

>But at least Windows allows you to switch back to the old style interface..

Until you hit the Windows key, then Metro slaps your face like a turgid cock in a bad gay porn film.

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BMO

I Had someone switch from WinXP to osx

[Anonymous Coward]

Not wrong its confusing. I have installed the RTM and I was out at a customers today that just got their first iMac and saying how different and confusing it was. I pulled out my laptop and showed them windows 8. Lets just say they felt a little better.

Proof that they are copying from Linux

[Chrisq]

Surely its no coincidence that after Ubuntu switched to Unity Microsoft is releasing a confusing UI that nobody wants and saying "you will like it, really you will"!