A "real" user proves Windows 8 fails on the desktop

Re:A "real" user proves Windows 8 fails on the desktop by run4yourlives on Monday March 12, 2012 @03:23PM (#3694987)

Just search for it.

Have you used an OS prior to Windows 7 and/or OSX?

Search on windows actually working is a huge step forward. Many users have simply not adapted to this actually being something worth trying.

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Re:A "real" user proves Windows 8 fails on the desktop by uxp on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @10:19AM (#3698523)

I'm one of those people. I switched to OS X somewhere around XP SP3. Have never used Vista on any of my own machines, and only run Win7 on a VM to get access to IE 8 and 9.

Search on Windows is horribly broken. One of the first "shortcuts" I learned on OS X was Cmd+Space and typing out the application I wanted to run. Spotlight immediately brought up what I wanted. Windows never did that for me, or spent 45 seconds or more with a spinning hourglass to return a document that happened to be named similar to a program I wanted. I don't care if it works better now, they've set a precedent in my mind that it is broken, because it was broken for the ~15 years I used their OSes.

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