[video=youtube;p92QfWOw88I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I[/video] So, what are you guys thinking? I am sitting here on my Windows 7 laptop hoping that I did not see this video. Essentially all Microsoft is doing with Windows 8 is taking their Windows mobile phone's OS and putting into a OS for your computer. I myself being a programmer and in the IT field hate this look, I miss my start button! I hate all of these little boxes feel like I have no desktop with no shortcuts or anything! So it makes it more difficult to navigate? What are you doing Microsoft! You should be building more user friendly OS's not ones that seem harder to navigate for us Windows veterans. You already sell more computers than Apple does quit trying to be more like them! Do not get me wrong I love that Microsoft wants to go in a different direction with the OS but one thing I disagree on is that in the video the user navigates everything via touchscreen. Ya more and more people are getting touchscreen desktops and laptops I understand that but what about Gamers?! I myself being a PC Gamer am thinking how awkward this is going to feel to navigate with a mouse and how some Gamers are going to react to this new OS...This seems more of a tablet concept to me rather than Windows 8, I could very well be wrong this could be the best thing yet to happen to Windows. What do you guys think?
Yeah I saw this video few months ago, I just laughed it off and pretty sure it will be nothing like that in the future. I can't work and play without my desktop spaces and icons. What they are presenting would be useful in a airport terminal or a hotel, they got to be kidding to think we can get any type of productivity done without desktop and icons. I rather use a Mac than that!! But then again, this could be a very specific version of windows 8 that works with touch screen computers, like I mentioned before in restaurants or hotels, so we may all be mistaken thinking that it will be a replacement of windows 7.
I hope you are right, I mean at least give me a button were I can switch to a classic look! If I had a touch screen laptop this might be the OS I would use for it but as I said earlier it seems to me more of a tablet application than a Windows OS!
"I miss my start button!" If you look at the video at about 3:12 it does have the start button. I quite like the idea, it does seem like its been aimed more at touch screen but I assume that's simply as the demo being showed is using touch screen, I would imagine it has been designed to work well with standard mouse and keyboard as that's what most users are still currently using and it would be mad not to make sure they have covered it properly. Tho for now you do always have the option of staying on Windows 7 if you don't like Windows 8 when released. Until we get to see more and get to use it then its hard to say whether its good or not, so me personally just gonna wait and see, seems like they are going to be having quite a jump forward offering new ways to do things and trying to make things better, just hope they don't try and do to much to quick. Look at when they jumped from XP to Vista it was a complete fail.
http://www.youtube.com/user/WindowsVideos#p/u/0/1Hq95vtoS28 http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-8/preview
I am aware that it does have a start button but it is not really the start button most of us are use to seeing. Now essentially you have a "Home" button like on an iPhone. All I was saying is it looks ridiculous that Microsoft essentially just reformatted their mobile OS for a desktop and laptop computer. All in all I doubt they had to put much effort behind Windows 8 using their mobile phone OS as a base. Also I think it will take up a great amount of RAM memory to run this intense graphic display. I am not saying I will get Windows 8 I am obviously sticking with Windows 7 but as someone in the IT field I fear that I will eventually have to learn to deal with Windows 8! I appreciate your feedback! ^_^
This emphasizes a point I always make. Windows is for amateurs, not professionals. That's why professional developers wouldn't like such a thing. But Microsoft wants to make it easy to use for moms and little kids and others who only treat their computers like appliances. Unfortunately, we professional developers have to use Windows to write code for Windows. (I don't). It would be far smarter for these amateurs to be using Apple products because they don't have to worry about third party software screwing things up like you see so much on Windows products. Plus Apple guarantees everything works together seamlessly as well as giving excellent product support.
I could not agree with you more being a developer and professional when it comes to my PC is the main reason why I love Microsoft!
I am open minded, I think it looks good...for a mobile phone. It does not seem practical as a desktop or laptop OS at all. But of course some people will like it and others won't, I'm just disappointed with Microsoft right now.