A Serious Proposal To Fix Windows 8

GMGruman writes "Windows 8 is simply not selling, and everyone but Microsoft knows it's a mess of an OS. And the Windows 8.1 'Blue' that Microsoft revealed some details of late last week doesn't address the fundamental flaws. So a team at InfoWorld worked up a serious proposal to rework Windows 8 for both PCs and tablets that fixes those flaws and lets Microsoft's true innovations break free of today's Windows 8, complete with mockups of the proposed Windows 'Red.'"

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Works for tablets

[Anonymous Coward]

OK, Win8 is an abomination for desktops, but it works realy well for tablets and touch-enabled devices. It was a joy to use with my friend's Sony all-in-one thingy (basically, an iMac rip-off).

Then again, if you want to run desktop apps on your tablet say goodbye to battery life.

BTW, is it possible to slipstream Start8 with the Win8 installation?

My solution for fixing Windows 8

[Anonymous Coward]

I propose a simple and effective solution to virtually all Windows 8 problems: remove it.

Re:My solution for fixing Windows 8

[mumblestheclown]

and replace it with what?

slashdot's knee-jerk, karma whoring anti-microsoft nonsense notwithstanding,what would you use instead? there are two competitors for a desktop os replacement:

- OSX - anybody who tells you that this is somehow a better working environment than ms windows honestly is just lying. and then there's the philosophical issue of tighter coupling and control than even the worst slashdot fanboi ever accused microsoft of.
- Linux on the Desktop - the growth of OSX showed that the usual linux trope about there being no possibility for a competing desktop OS to succeed was bollocks. The reality is that when your product, priced at free in contrast to its relatively expensive competitors, gets near zero takeup, then it's time to face reality that the basic product isnt very good. its the brown tap water of a dasani world.

Re:My solution for fixing Windows 8

[smooth wombat]

Second option: Windows XP. It's patched, simple to use and stable. The complete opposite of Windows 7.

Whenever we have issues with Windows 7 I always tell folks, "If we could upgrade to XP, all these problems would disappear."

Re:No problem here

[geminidomino]

First and only post since June 2011, eh?

So either the account has been sold or otherwise ended up in the hands of some scumbag "reputation management" firm, or you're as mentally deficient as the "UX" jerkoffs that think a tablet interface on a desktop is anything other than the most brain-meltingly stupid "innovation" of the last decade.

No, it's not.

[bondsbw]

It is taking the rotting corpse of the dead horse out of its horse casket, standing it up so that some horse believers can still hope it is alive, and beating it.

It's done. If you want a Start menu, pay $5 to Stardock.

This is the only OS in the world that people complain about NOT having a menu to access applications. It's ok that OS X has never had a Start menu. And I thought Windows was dumb, Linux rules. But all these "expert" users who claim to run Linux or OS X as their primary OS sure seem distraught by something that shouldn't affect them often because, after all, they wouldn't use Windows if their life depended on it.

Ummm... designers are Mac fanbois.

[elabs]

Designers ARE mac fanbois. That's the demographic that buys Macs and skinny jeans.