30 Days Is Too Long: Animated Rant About Windows 8

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."

Comments

Re:For a guy who "learned Linux"...

[PlusFiveTroll]

>Non-obviousness is not an issue. There are plenty of non-obvious and hidden interface designs that are good, like right context menus, double clicking, click drag,

Please die. When you travel to that dark place, let Steve Jobs retrain you how to make a user interface.

Right clicking is UI HIV+. It took me a long time to come to this conclusion, but it allows very bad UI design and lots of unexpected hidden things. Apple designed better UI's because they did not have a right click for a long time. Show the user what can be done visually, not by groping in the dark.

Double click and drag click are the most fun things ever to explain to a user, doubly so over the phone. You don't double click in the metro interface. Multiple versions of windows came with the single click to launch option (default in one of them I think).

No what Microsoft has done here is tossed out billions of hours of user training to make a half baked interface to compete with Apple and Android. Microsoft has always sucked at good UI design and continues to do so.

Re:Not again...

[adolf]

What's this trend in attacking 'negativity' as though doing so is a legit argument against what was said? Is this some kind of peer pressure to conform to the head-in-ground masses of ostriches who can't handle reality because they're too weak willed to not take everything personally?

We're a kinder, softer, and somewhat more squishy generation. Name-calling is forbidden, and making fun of someone's work doubly so.

It doesn't matter if little Timmy's science project is an abomination that only serves to display how little he knows about the subject, but only that Timmy tried. Trying is good enough.

There are no winners, and no losers. No reward for being the best at something, and no detriment for being the worst, but just the same mediocre praise...as long as they tried.

So, any expressed negativity can only serve one purpose: To hurt someone's feelings. And feelings are what's really important.*

Why are you so mean? Can't you see that they tried?

(* Yes, this is non-requiter, but then so is reality.)