Windows 8 update

Guardsman

On Tuesday the Financial Times ran a front-page story suggesting that a U-turn over key elements of Windows 8 would mark "one of the most prominent admissions of failure for a new mass-market consumer product since Coca-Cola's New Coke fiasco nearly 30 years ago".



So is Windows 8 a failure ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22446754

SnowTiger

Guardsman wrote: »

On Tuesday the Financial Times ran a front-page story suggesting that a U-turn over key elements of Windows 8 would mark "one of the most prominent admissions of failure for a new mass-market consumer product since Coca-Cola's New Coke fiasco nearly 30 years ago".



So is Windows 8 a failure ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22446754

Most of the people I know who moan about Windows 8 are people who haven't tried it.

The two top complaints are that it only works properly on touch screen devices and that the Start globe has gone AWOL.

I've been using Windows 8 for a while.

It works fine without a touch screen, although having one may be a useful bonus.

I can't understand all the fuss about the missing Start globe.

On Windows 95 - Windows 7 you move the pointer to the bottom left of the screen, left click and get the menu.

And, surprise, surprise, on Windows 8 you move the pointer to the bottom left of the screen, left click and get the menu. It just looks a bit different.

Personally, I prefer the Window 8 menu. Links to all of my favorite apps—sorry, programs—are there right in front of me. I don't want the long, cumbersome, menu offered by previous versions of Windows containing over one hundred links I never use.

Windows 8 is also incredibly fast. I'm running it on a laptop with only 4GBytes of RAM.

ohbilly

I actually like windows 8 after I stopped moaning about the changes and started to use it.

Love the boot time and I am actually fond of the Metro menu. I dislike the simplicity of the various control panel type menus tho