Kharn
Lord Techie,
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Re: Today I have...
No I will only own windows 8 when I have to support it, not before and even then unless there is a serious reason not to do so I'll virtualise it.
And no I am not anti progress what I am is anti gimmick the Metro UI is only a gimmick it's going to cost them more in the long run than it will ever help them. We don't interact with a computer the same we do with a phone, sadly lots of hype about the new way do doing things breaks the user mental flow. You are perhaps too young to rember but when XP came out MS was slated by lots of users for it's default interface looking different from what they where used to and the layout of the start menu and it wasn't much different from what they where used to, so if about 10% of the UI was differnt and people complained what do you think Metro will do?
I will for my own use stick to OSX and another *nix variant for my personal use.
Yep I will agree to that one.
Do we need to have the striate jacket and rubber room on standby?
No I will only own windows 8 when I have to support it, not before and even then unless there is a serious reason not to do so I'll virtualise it.
And no I am not anti progress what I am is anti gimmick the Metro UI is only a gimmick it's going to cost them more in the long run than it will ever help them. We don't interact with a computer the same we do with a phone, sadly lots of hype about the new way do doing things breaks the user mental flow. You are perhaps too young to rember but when XP came out MS was slated by lots of users for it's default interface looking different from what they where used to and the layout of the start menu and it wasn't much different from what they where used to, so if about 10% of the UI was differnt and people complained what do you think Metro will do?
I will for my own use stick to OSX and another *nix variant for my personal use.
Yep I will agree to that one.
Do we need to have the striate jacket and rubber room on standby?
