Windows 8 seems garish and over-complicated while, impossibly, being dumbed down to uselessness. Seeing video after video of people flail about with what should be routine tasks is amusing enough to watch, but probably no fun for an amateur.
I have no idea what IT departments will make of their business computers suddenly looking like an XBox, either.
I installed the beta preview and I've since upgrade win 7 to win 8 pro. My reaction, which I share to others, is that it's the first time I've used a computer and it felt like 2012.
There's plenty of room for improvement but they are getting a lot of things right, IMO. I would kill for the GUI formerly known as Metro on top of FreeBSD or Debian.
(I'm also a Mac user 90% of the time).
That is one hell of a conspiracy theory. Got any evidence?
New windows is really good, I don't like that MS is copying Apple and making whole thing closed, kind was hoping things would go the way of the linux, not the way of the apple, but... So, it is not perfect, but it is very futuristic interface that works.
What I specially like is that they designed interface in such a way that it doesn't require insane graphics card just to get it to work well.
I think we all need a lot of options and dissapearance of any would hurt us big time.
I also think we all need a lot of options and the disappearance of any will hurt us – UEFI Secure Boot is going to reduce the number of OS options, because it raises the price of being able to boot on generic PC hardware from $0 to $99. Many OS's will work together the way Fedora, SuSE, and Matthew Garrett are working together, so it may not cost each OS $99, but anything more than $0 is a loss.
Which kind of makes me wonder about those people who can't figure it out :)
It seems implausible that Apple would be behind the raft of bad reviews that Windows 8 has gotten, including the review from a professional UI testing company. I don't think Apple even wants to get Microsoft's market. After, Apple is premium vendor.
FYI I use OSX more then win and then it comes ubuntu, which is unfortunate for ubuntu. I am developer so I think I need to know all of them well to be effective.
I think Apple is making sure people voice their displeasure with win8 as it is genuinely ahead of OSX in both functionality and design. I can't tell for sure what will happen but I definitely would like to use something like win8 in the future. Also, by saying it is ahead, that doesn't mean it is flawless :), there is a ton of room for improvement.