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Microsoft Prepares Rethink On Windows 8
jones_supa writes "Microsoft has confirmed to be preparing to reverse course over elements of Windows 8. 'Key aspects' of how the software is used will be changed when Microsoft releases an updated version of the operating system this year, Tami Reller, head of marketing and finance for the Windows business, said in an interview with the Financial Times. Referring to difficulties many users have had with mastering the software, she added: 'The learning curve is definitely real.'"
While this decision is generally being framed as a frantic backtrack for Microsoft, it comes as the company has recently passed 100 million Windows 8 licenses sold. Clearly they see this as more of a course adjustment than bailing water from a sinking ship. Microsoft also plans to preview the update called 'Windows Blue' in June.
Microsoft is misspelling things again.
It's spelled "Windows Blue", but pronounced "Windows Blew".
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Windows 8: We Blue it...
01:36AM up 426 days, 2:46, 1 user, load average: 0.14, 0.11, 0.05
It will boot up into the Blue screen of death?
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
If you like, I can refer you to a great dominatrix who is uncannily handy with the whip and enjoys watching people suffer. Should be right up the alley of people who enjoyed the upgrade to Windows 8.
Seriously, I am curious to learn which areas you found to be an improvement over previous versions of Windows on desktop machines. I for one never had to Google around for instructions on performing basic tasks after upgrading to a new OS. I didn't have to when I tried a few of the more modern Linux distros, nor when I got my first iDevice from Apple. That's because those environments have good UI designs that build on existing paradigms, make things obvious, visible and intuitive, and provide contextual help when stuff isn't obvious. Windows 8 has none of that.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Man, I am disappointed. I sure hope Microsoft, in their mad rush to undo the damage they perceive, doesn't ruin the touch experience on the touch screen computers out there already.
If you want to boot to anything, boot to OneNote.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Saves time that way.
I think Microsoft has gotten a bad rap on Windows 8, mainly from a very very vocal but overwhelming MINORITY of PC users that are resistant to change and can't handle learning new and better ways of interacting with PCs.
I personally think Windows 8 with Metro is wonderful, and creates a consistent and easy to use interface across all of my devices (which include Phone, Tablet, and PC).
I hope they don't listen to the equivalent of computer teabaggers and just dump the greatest idea to hit computing since Windows ME.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I automatically associate "Windows Blue" with "Blue Screen of Death". I literally can't help it, it's the first thing that pops into my mind.
The actual hierarchical start menu? Worthless legacy cruft that has been more or less replaced by search anyway.
Who needs a hierarchy or a TOC? That sounds like a great idea for our user manuals! They're searchable, after all...
*starts email to share revelation with boss*
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Jeremiah Cornelius posited:
Microsoft is misspelling things again.
It's spelled "Windows Blue", but pronounced "Windows Blew".
No, no, no.
There's nothing past tense about it.
Check out my novel.
I do not think Microsoft is as arrogant as people on this very anti-MS site make it them out to be.
Of course they are.
It takes an ego massive enough to bend light to release an update named "Windows Blue" without realizing the next two words in everyone's heads will be "screen" and "death".
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