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Windows 8 - Sad beta fish

I tried, folks, really I did. Afterwards unleashing my rant final week virtually the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, I decided I would brave it for as long as I was mentally and physically capable. Later all, this is a new operating organisation from Microsoft — I have every bit much a responsibleness to myself as I do to the tech community to know it, employ it, and understand information technology.

Then I endured the Technicolor-eyesore Metro First Screen, with all those oversize buttons that take seconds to launch programs that always started instantaneously in Windows 7. I pushed aside the psychological torture of opening program after program and never closing ane, despite knowing I would never come back to information technology. I gritted my teeth through endless single-window screens, constant organisation slowdowns, and navigational awkwardness, always hoping that sticking with the pain would somehow brand me a meliorate person.

But after several additional days of seeing upgrades from Windows vii fail on three separate computers, afterwards several additional days of seeing fifty-fifty touchscreen all-in-ones and tablets actually go less usable equally a consequence of being Windows 8ified, and afterwards several additional days of being treated like a preschooler suffering from ADHD for wanting to perform the simplest tasks, I reached my snapping point.

Start8As I said last time, I'm an adult and I want my figurer to care for me like i. I have neither the time nor the inclination to trudge through multiple circles of interface hell just to practise bones things that then fail to work every bit they ever have before. And though I'k more than willing to pursue the workarounds people are discovering for bypassing Metro, I fail to run across why I — or anyone — should have to. Microsoft, if you want to have over the tablet market, terrific. But tin can't you find a way to exercise so that respects the hundreds of millions of customers who helped put you lot where y'all are?

Right hither and now I'll make this pledge: Equally new major editions of Windows viii are released along the road to the final RTM version, I volition continue trying them. I'one thousand going to requite Microsoft every opportunity to turn around this fiasco, to convince me that this is the operating organisation I both need and desire to use. And if (when?) my mind changes about, I volition let you all know. Microsoft has released a lot of good products over the last few decades, many of which have had significant positive impacts on my life, so the company has at least earned that.

For the time existence, however, I take too much cocky-respect and too many demands on my time to devote to what is currently, at its best, nonsense. So a repartition, a format, and 20 minutes or and then of disc accessing subsequently, I had wiped out Windows eight and replaced information technology with a sparkling copy of Windows 7. Let me tell y'all, that whole process was far and abroad the most invigorating and intensely satisfying experience I had all week.

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