Windows 8: a 'Christmas Gift For Someone You Hate'

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 6, 2012 @03:46AM from the not-keeping-it-all-bottled-up-inside dept.

zacharye writes "Microsoft is no stranger to criticism these days, and the company's new Windows 8 platform is once again the target of a scathing review from a high-profile user. Well-known Internet entrepreneur and MIT professor Philip Greenspun handed Windows 8 one of its most damning reviews yet earlier this week, calling the new operating system a 'Christmas gift for someone you hate.' Greenspun panned almost every aspect of Microsoft's new software, noting that Microsoft had four years to study Android and more than five to examine iOS, but still couldn't build a usable tablet experience..."

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Re:lol by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-06 05:09 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Beats me why you got modded down, but out of the box Ubuntu has one of the ugliest and least functional windows managers of all time, and I'm old enough to remember windows 2.0! I started using Ubuntu around about Putrid Papaya in 2007, and with every release they made it slower, uglier, look more like a kiddie toy, and more of a pain in the butt to use. Is there a major distro out there that is the Anti-Gnome? I'm done with Ubuntu and want to remove it ASAP, but haven't used another distro in years.