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Microsoft Has Been Watching, and It Says You're Getting Used To Windows 8
Dupple writes "Microsoft's user data shows that users are getting used to dealing with the Windows 8 user interface, reports this article at MIT Technology Review. Despite some of the more scathing reviews of Windows 8, ordinary users are getting along with it just fine, according to Julie Larson-Green, the Microsoft executive who leads Windows product development. Data collected automatically from some Windows users, she says, show they are adjusting to some of the new operating system's controversial features without problems 'So far we're seeing very encouraging things,' Larson-Green says of the large volume of data that Microsoft receives every day from people using Windows 8 who have chosen to join the company's 'customer experience improvement program.' All users are invited to enroll in that program when they first log into the new operating system. If they do so, anonymized information about how they are using the operating system is sent to Microsoft. Referring to complaints from some quarters, Larson-Green says: 'Even with the rumblings, we feel confident that it's a moment in time more than an actual problem.'"
Yes. There is a Russian proverb from the Tsarist period that translates into something like: "You can get used to anything. Except dying."
I'm amused how he looks a little more and more like Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now every year. I'm pretty sure that there's eventually going to be an investor meeting in a temple surrounded by spikes with iMacs and Apple computers skewered on them somewhere in Redmond. Ballmer will be sweating out and squeezing cool water over his bald forehead while rambling slowly in spurts to SEC reporters who are trying to make heads or tails of what he is saying. Minions will be slaughtering a cow with chairs in the background while he sputters on about Windows 8's success and how they said his methods were madness.
My work here is dung.
Yep, but probably not to Windows 8. I'd sooner deploy Microsoft Bob.
Expect a bunch of swearing and cursing as you work through the internet looking for drivers for that one last elusive bit of hardware, or to get that damn network running.
Funny, that's what I do with Windows...
I'm starting to think GNU is the problem with "GNU/Linux" these days.
I suppose your office mates put tripwires outside of handicap access ramps?
With friends like you, who needs enemies?
of course not. they made the ramp 1 degree steeper every week.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Canonical Has Been Watching, and It Says You're Getting Used To Unity
134340: I am not a number. I am a free planet!
If I came around to your house and punched you in the face, then asked you how you liked being punched in the face. If you didn't answer my question and just yelled "Get out of my house - I'm calling the cops", that's to be taken as you not only liking being punched in the face, but next time I can punch you harder?
I don't know anyone who used the start menu for anything but search and shut down.
This statement is significant because, of course, the plural form of "anecdote" is "data."
Seriously, I still have my car from 1993 because these new ones stink.
More seriously - I use my car for work. Not kids, not Sunday drives, not a stint on the race track, WORK. 1993 Toyota Camry is better at getting work done than a 2010 Lexus.
Hopefully Toyota pulls their heads out of their butts on this and allows a quick setting change to "I have no use for ABS and stability control, thanks."