Final thoughts on Windows 8: A design disaster

Re:Final thoughts on Windows 8: A design disaster by Karunamon on Sunday June 17, 2012 @10:45PM (#4124680)

The thing is that Windows isn't Microsoft's cash cow.. in the consumer space. It is and mostly always has been the enterprise market.

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Re:Final thoughts on Windows 8: A design disaster by chris_wot on Sunday June 17, 2012 @11:33PM (#4124815)

I'm very curious to see whether they will use the Metro UI in their server OSes. My bet is, they won't, or if they do they'll either put out a new edition fairly quickly, or will roll it back even faster to the traditional UI.

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Re:Final thoughts on Windows 8: A design disaster by molmalo on Monday June 18, 2012 @03:08AM (#4125344)

"Metro and WinRT may be at the heart of Windows 8 on the desktop, but they're purely adjuncts on the server. The charms and contracts are there, along with the Start Screen, but you're hardly likely to see them as you can manage much of a server from inside Server Manager or via PowerShell (or externally via RSAT and System Center)."

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/reviews/server-os/2012/06/11/screensh...

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Re:Final thoughts on Windows 8: A design disaster by sigkill on Monday June 18, 2012 @07:39AM (#4125923)

This is going to be funny. When ME came out, enthusiasts started using Windows 2000 on their desktop.

Now with MEtro, maybe they'll again go Win 8 Server.

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Re:Final thoughts on Windows 8: A design disaster by bztzt on Monday June 18, 2012 @12:45AM (#4125032)

What is "Metro"? Server 2012 does use the new start menu, if you want to call that "Metro"

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Re:Final thoughts on Windows 8: A design disaster by EwanToo on Monday June 18, 2012 @02:14AM (#4125231)

Metro is the wp7 style tile interface, with one fully maximised app open at once.

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