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Cloudship Mar 5, 2012 9:38 pm
Originally Posted by timfountain (Post 18142461)
I totally agree. Win 8 is a dud, it's another Win ME / Vista. MS continue to make the same mistakes over and over, why do they never learn? The wake from sleep/hibernate has been a non-issue since I went to a SSD. I installed the preview in a VM and didn't see anything at all that was a must have and a lot of where's the innovation/new features head scratching.
I mentally called it Windows 7 with a tacked on UI and designed by a 6 year old....

Our IT group (supporting over 15K users) has decided that Win 8 is a skip....

Win 8 = Epic Fail
I don't know that we are willing to call it a fail just yet. I think it will depend where touch-screen technology goes. It sounds like some companies are really going to push touch screen laptops in the coming months, that might just make a case for Windows 8. If they could actually integrate the metro interface tiles with the win 7 desktop, I could see that also being a plus. But from a management view I am a little concerned. Then again, we have only barely started working towards Win 7, win 8 might be years away.

Cloudship Mar 5, 2012 9:57 pm
OK, There Is one very compelling reason to have windows 8. It's called "flow", and for such a simple game, it can become very, very addictive.

thecoldhandoftechnology Mar 6, 2012 7:20 pm
Originally Posted by Cloudship (Post 18142585)
I don't know that we are willing to call it a fail just yet. I think it will depend where touch-screen technology goes. It sounds like some companies are really going to push touch screen laptops in the coming months.
Agreed. Win8 is all about touch. The Metro interface works with a mouse, but the real advantage is with a touch enabled device. Under Metro, Win 8 is mostly Win 7. Not sure yet if desktop users with a standard keyboard and mouse would find a huge advantage. Many have said that Windows has a recent history of every other release being a winner. Based on our very short evaluation period, I can see Win 7 for desktop users, Win 8 for mobile users until Win "9" becomes the next XP.


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