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RE[5]: Not surprising..
by CapEnt on Tue 3rd Dec 2013 15:19 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: Not surprising.."
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Win8 has one flaw. A fatal flaw actually, even more so for corporations than for domestic users: his user interface.

Yes, Win8 has all that improvements. But all these improvements that you said could have been done on a sane GUI, like Win7.

Microsoft managed to create a interface that is bad for touch AND for mouse. Plus, like if their internal teams could not decide a paradigm, there tons of redundant functionality between the new "metro" interface and the classic applications AND mutually exclusive ones that makes impossible to just use one paradigm.

Very few people likes to swap between putting fingers on screen just to suddenly being throw back to the "classic" shell (unusable with touch) even for the simplest tasks, like file management. Even less finding that IE has two GUIs, one when you open it from the "start menu", and one if you open from the classic shell. That now they have two "configuration" panels (the classic control panel and the metro "configuration" menu). And the list goes on.

Win8 is a massive inconsistent mess that makes the Linux desktop from the 90s looks good.

And before someone points out that you can make Win8 looks like Win7, seriously, why waste time hacking Win8 to looks like Win7 if you can just use Win7? None improvements that you said justify wasting money in a Win8 license if you already have Win7.

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