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Many in the Technology industry
a) Dislike/distrust Microsoft view W8 modern screen as a push to buy apps.
b) Are set in their ways & don't like radical change for the training costs burden on their company that yield little efficiency gains (compared to XP & W7).
c) Take an older professional view that miss the benifits the ordinary user see.
General agreement is that W8 is only suitable for touch screens & tablets, a liability for everything else.
What do you think?
Added 3+ months ago:
There is also a suspicion that MS are trying to wean every one off the old style desktop with W8, so that W9 will not have one. All this so one Operating system can be used for Tablets, Notebooks & Desktops.
Microsoft tend to have a policy of releasing an OS that it thinks people will like and then following it with an OS that responds to the criticism. For that reason, Microsoft operating systems have always alternated between high user acceptance and low.
Windows 8: Bad
Windows 7: Good
Vista: Bad
XP: Good
ME: Bad
98: Good
95: Bad
3.11: Good
3.0: Bad
It's no different than what they did with DOS.
6.2: Good
6.0: Bad
5.0: Good
4.0: Bad
3.3: Good
3.0: Bad
I know Microsoft are frustrated with the lack of user acceptance and they feel held back by a conservative public but it's the public who choose an OS, not Microsoft who should tell us what we should use.
I agree that Windows 8 moves way too far towards the tablet/phone model. Microsoft have been misguided in pandering to that. Why are they trying to come up with a single OS that works on a PC, tablet and phone? I don't see Android looking to be a PC OS. Apple don't do it, either. Apple are clever enough to realise the difference and much as I dislike Apple, they appear to understand their market; something Microsoft only does one in every two operating systems.
Windows 9 will be great, though.
