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30 Days Is Too Long: Animated Rant About Windows 8

Posted by timothy on from the devil's-advocate dept.

First time accepted submitter Funksaw writes "Back in 2007, I wrote three articles on Ubuntu 6, Mac OS X 10.4, and Windows Vista, which were all featured on Slashdot. Now, with the release of Windows 8, I took a different tactic and produced an animated video. Those expecting me to bust out the performance tests and in-depth use of the OS are going to be disappointed. While that was my intention coming into the project, I couldn't even use Windows 8 long enough to get to the in-depth technical tests. In my opinion, Windows 8 is so horribly broken that it should be recalled."

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  1. This video is so full of sh*t by caywen · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's big on platitudes, but fails to actually deliver on substantive problems. Like the "goblins farting in your face" thing. I'm sorry, but the weather application does *not* suddenly pop up over things when you are typing. That must have been some kind of stuck key or something. Otherwise, can someone please provide the actual repro steps, because that sounds like a plain old bug. Again, I've *never* seen a metro nor desktop app decide to just suddenly pop up. It feels more like this author made that sh*t up completely.

    He confuses his own terms "Control" and "Conveyance". He complains he can't navigate away from Weather as an issue of Control. Bullshit. Upper left corner. Lower left corner. Windows key. Alt tab. Drag from top to bottom. There are tons of ways to navigate. Issue with "Conveyance"? Maybe. Not one of Control. Now that I know how to navigate Win8, I've never had any issues.

    I *have* had issues with discoverability. Win8 is definitely bad in this regard. They botched the tutorial : "swipe in from the left" -> nothing happens because the tutorial is shown during OS bootup - ????? yes, that's idiotic. But once I learned the ropes, actual navigation is *easy* (not easier, but definitely not hard).

    I really couldn't get through this video. Despite what he says, if he couldn't figure the OS out, yet I could, then he *is* dumb. The OS isn't unusable. It's poorly understood, Microsoft's user education is a total fail, and Microsoft missed so many opportunities to make the UI way, way better. Once you actually get it, it's not bad. I wouldn't pay $99 for it, but it's not preventing me from getting work done.