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 p.2 #8 · Anyone else really hate the Windows 8 interface? | |
Russ,
Your points are all valid and correct ... to a point (imo, several years vs. few years, i.e. until companies begin making the switch en mass). Each release is considered to be the new & innovative one that is going to become the gold standard. And as others have mentioned, it seems that some do better than others. 95, XP, Win 7 seem to have done better than 98, ME, & Vista. The jury is still out on Win 8 and and there will of course be a Win 9 (or some other name) behind it to continue the leapfrog of available OS's.
+1 @ WHEN vs. IF ... but the pushback for XP (because it just simply WORKED) was great enough to extend support far beyond the need to leave XP for several years. I'm not upgrade phobic ... I actually had Win 8 from the day it first became available to me.
After a month of frustration that would kill my "mojo" rather than liberate it, the cost of the detriment to my mental anguish overrode any other theoretical / nominal gains that I had yet to realize the benefit from. For another person, the changes may have been very liberating, and a year from now I may learn how to love Win 8.
But, I think the last straw came for me, when someone told me where I should mouse click in the lower right corner to bring up a window/pane/ribbon (something, I've since forgotten). UNTIL SOMEONE ELSE TOLD ME ABOUT THIS ... there was absolutely NO WAY that I would have ever known about it. Nothing happened on a mouseover, no text/icon hinting that it was there ... nothing, other than it was just a perfectly invisible function. That, and the fact that as a mouse/touchpad user, you had to travel all the way across the screen to get to it and then back again to where you were ... horrible interface.
If that's what they call an intuitive interface ... there is something very wrong with the thought process behind that, imo. It only made me think "How much more" am I going to have to go ask someone to explain to me how to use this OS for its invisible interface. Minimal and intuitive are one thing, but invisible ... really 
I suspect that Win 8, with I'm sure plenty of innovative ideas (Vista) will march on, but I'm thinking that Win 7 / Vista will easily be around long enough to see what comes behind it, much like the preferred Win 7, followed Vista. If I'm forced to change to Win 8 (I get that), my learning curve investment will be the same later, as it would be now.
Understanding that it comes at the "opportunity loss" to not receive the ROI that Win 8 might bring ... which so far cost me my mojo way more than it gained me any efficiency. Starting & stopping my mental mojo/workflow is very inefficient and can cause not only a reduction in efficiency, but also a reduction in quality of workmanship.
Until then, I skip out on the frustration/angst that it causes me. Maybe I successfully skip over Win 8 to Win 9, maybe I'm forced to be a late adopter ... but, I was very disappointed with Win 8. I was very hopeful for it, and to its credit ran pretty well on my T60 ... but that UI was a deal breaker for me (for now).
I also recognize that my learning curve is getting a bit more costly now that I'm more interested in stable & consistent than novel and innovative. Mac vs. PC, Win 8 vs. Win 7 vs. XP, Canon vs. Nikon vs. Sony, SLR vs. Rangefinder vs. MF, manual focus vs. auto-focus, prime vs. zoom ... we all have our preferences where one person perceives a gain, for another, it may be perceived as a loss.
I'll give Win 8 some due (based on those who say there's more under the hood), but for now, it's not for me because I couldn't find the hood latch. 
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