Are Windows XP/7 Users Smarter Than a 3-Year-Old?

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Are Windows XP/7 Users Smarter Than a 3-Year-Old?

Posted by Unknown on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @12:06AM from the smarter-than-an-honor-student dept.

theodp writes "Those sounding the alarm about the difficulty in making the transition to Windows 8, especially on traditional computers, should check out Adam Desrosiers' son Julian, a 3-year-old kid who uses Windows 8 like a champ. 'I read these tech pundits and journalists discussing how hard it's gonna be for the general public to learn the new UI of Windows 8,' says Desrosiers. 'Nonsense. The long and short of it is: If my 3 years old son can learn Windows 8 through very moderate usage, anybody with half a brain can do so too.' Bill Gates has already successfully made the transition to what he calls an 'unbelievably great' Microsoft Surface. On Friday, we'll start finding out if current Windows XP and Windows 7 users are also smarter than the average 3-year-old!"

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Why change the interface at all by For+a+Free+Internet · 2012-10-23 00:10 · Score: 5, Funny

If it ain't broke, don't fix it! The problem is capitalism. Under socialism, production will be planned to meet human needs, not driven blindly by the whims of a market of idle parasitical bourgeois shareholders. CAPITALISM SUCKS, MICROSOFT SUCKS, FORWARD TO COMMUNISM, I DRanke coffee that I made with a coffeee makore thagt ish iu f,saoz-0-0-0-0- 0oiofdsalk fs;a;a a;;a the pain!

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1. Re:Why change the interface at all by citizenr · 2012-10-23 02:59 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  That fails to explain why a three-year-old has no problems using it ... on a standard desktop PC. Like what the summary describes.
  Three year old also has no problems with eating dog shit picked up from the ground.
  
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2. Re:Why change the interface at all by Phrogman · 2012-10-23 03:12 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Not some of the business users I have met... :P
  
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3. Re:Why change the interface at all by ColdWetDog · 2012-10-23 03:44 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Oh there you are sir. We thought you might have escaped this time.
  It's time for your medication again. Now be a good boy and just swallow your pills. You don't want to make me have to call Security again.
  
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4. Re:Why change the interface at all by paiute · 2012-10-23 03:49 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  That fails to explain why a three-year-old has no problems using it ... on a standard desktop PC. Like what the summary describes.
  Three year old also has no problems with eating dog shit picked up from the ground.
  Somewhere a Microsoft marketing executive leaned back in his chair and pursed his lips. An idea was forming....
  
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5. Re:Why change the interface at all by Belial6 · 2012-10-23 03:51 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  That is a common excuse that doesn't really hold water. A week after my son turned two, I formatted his hard drive and handed him an Ubuntu install disk. He had no problem installing the OS. To this day I still hear people claiming that installing Linux is 'too hard'. The same thing very likely could be said for Windows 8.
6. Re:Why change the interface at all by Lumpy · 2012-10-23 04:10 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Read at the level of marketing and sales? Yes. read at the level of the secretary and Technical staff? no.
  
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3 year olds don't do that much. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-23 00:10 · Score: 5, Funny

They can't concentrate long enough to do any work...
I guess that makes Windows 8 a toy system... and still not suitable for work.
Ribbon by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-23 00:17 · Score: 2, Funny

I still don't know anyone who knows how to use the ribbon.
So it may be true... by Blinkin1200 · 2012-10-23 00:20 · Score: 5, Funny

Fisher - Price called, they want their UI back.
Re:You have to be kidding. by Kupfernigk · 2012-10-23 03:13 · Score: 4, Funny

I am over 60 and yes, I do know what a static IP is. You, however, apparently don't know what a straw man argument is. Hint: how long has IP been around now? Possibly from before you were born.
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Wrong direction by PPH · 2012-10-23 03:47 · Score: 5, Funny

My grandpa likes the Windows 8 UI as well. I can only hope that Windows 9 will keep up with his increasing dementia.

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Re:Anybody with more than half a brain by wzinc · 2012-10-23 03:57 · Score: 5, Funny

Microsoft Office - Rated M for Mature
Re:Anybody with more than half a brain by chispito · 2012-10-23 04:32 · Score: 4, Funny

Exactly. I can do mouse operations 10x faster than a 3 year old so since the UI is about 10x slower and less efficient, that brings us back down to the same level. I keep telling everyone their UI is designed like a tablet for 8 year olds but I may have to drop it to 3.
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