Is this serious?
Windows 8 sucks, but it's part of a larger vision of having a uniform interface across products. It focuses on how people are increasingly interacting with interfaces (touch screens) than how most PC users do, but 8.1 seems to alleviate the problems somewhat. It's incredibly overly simplistic to hold up Windows 8 as proof that Microsoft doesn't factor in customer feedback.
Same with the ad space thing. No customer has ever asked a company to monetize through advertisements, and it's probably a tiny minority that even cares.
Okay, and their attempt to "unify" the Windows visual experience has scared an already large part of their user-base from never upgrading. 37% of their user base is still on XP.
But then there is this larger question: of if there anything really wrong with the Window's interface to being with?
My answer, and the general consensus of the tech community's, would be
no. MS saw the business touch-interfaces were doing and needed to find a way to bring that "success" over to their dwindling windows brand. As a result we got Windows 8 and the Surface. Windows 8 is far from a failure, but the Surface is. As are sales of touch-screen based laptops - somethings Windows 8 tries to push on the customer for optimal usage.
More to the point, if MS was actually unifying their interfaces to Metro then wouldn't the 360 interface be more customizable like Win Phone 8 or the Win 8 start screen? Instead, were stuck with a home screen that's loaded with adds and our "pins" are hidden behind a button. Not to mention, some of us (myself included) PAY for this service. We pay to have OUR console riddled with ads, while our stuff is forced off into submenus and sub screens.
I'd love to believe in their grand vision as well, but I just don't see it.
So you have no hands on experience with Windows 8, yet rail against it. Got it. thisisneogaf.gif
Right, exactly. I neither work in the tech industry where I use PC's on day-to-day. Nor does a member of my family work for Microsoft where I get all of these products at the company discount. It's not like Macs have some method of dual booting Windows. I've also, since we're clearing the air, never been to a Microsoft press event. Because, again, I don't live/work in that world.
Does that make you feel better? Anything else I should know about myself since I can't have an opinion based on the platform my workflow exists on.