thesilentman said:
All of you guys spreading FUD about how bad Windows 8 is compared to 7, I ask you all kindly to stop. I say this as Windows 8 has improvements over 7 that put it good in my book, but is botched in design issues (sort of; I live with it just fine).
Anyway, I don't get this sudden blame on Windows 8. Name me one reason for me to roll back to Windows 7, then I'll take anyone's claims that "Windows 8 is a shit OS" and THEN I'll roll back. There's no reason for me to run back to older technology of a simple user interface fiaso which can be circumvented with a simple program.
I don't get this FUD, honest...
Windows 8 may seem to be fine for the target audience that it seems to have been designed around. Private, mostly home use end users. people like those posting here.
It is however a complete and utter abomination to the group that is by far the largest MS installed customer base (and the most captive customer base). Business and Enterprise's. It is awful. None of Win 8's supposed improvements make any difference to this group. It piles millions of dollars of unneeded and pointless transition costs. It's bizarre UI is so unintuitive that users require far more training than with any other MS OS transition, with no real benefit to the company or corporation. (Win 7 gave them a 64 bit OS with a higher RAM threshold. Win 8 gives them absolutely nothing that they need or have ever asked for).
Oh and some say, "It runs everything that Win 7 does, and it even has compatibility modes". Uh huh. Blatantly untrue. It runs most off the shelf retail software products. But specialized business stuff. Stuff that companies have invested millions of dollars in over the years, and have evolved and patched and grown through the 20+ years of MS's OS evolution's? Well no they don't all work. There are bugs and squirrels. Millions of them. It's ugly out there. As an example, someone above raved about how much better Win 8's multi monitor support is. Well yes, for a home user using a multi monitor gaming rid, or simple tasks. But get into a real environment? I deal with and support medical imaging systems for a living. PACS programs such as McKessen. The things Radiologists use to view various imaging scans. These systems are specifically designed to use 2-4 monitors. It's part of their core function. Windows 8 in its effort to be all things to all users, does not let the programs work. The core of Win 8 is grossly incompatible with these systems. When asked about Win 8 the developers laugh hysterically. The general consensus seems to be that they would rather migrate their programs to Linnux or Mac OS before dealing with Win 8. (And they have a history of skipping MS releases. Non of them supported Vista either. Although Vista at least kinda worked, Win 8, nope.)
My point isn't to rant about the one specific set of circumstances I have encountered, but rather to impress that the huge business market has absolutely no use for or interest in Windows 8. Win 8 is in fact so different from everything that has come before that it is starting to force decision points in the Companies IT architecture. It is forcing them to re-evaluate their status as a captive customer base of MS.