» Mon May 14, 2012 6:24 am Okay my Xbox connection just randomly started working now.
So far I'm liking 8, though it took me awhile to figure out how to restart my computer. Nothing is self-explanatory in Windows 8, I feel like they're going to have trouble getting older users to update to it. I can't see my grandmother navigating in Windows 8 after just now finally getting the hang of the Windows format. She just gets comfortable using a computer and now they go and rearrange everything... LOL
So far I'm liking 8, though it took me awhile to figure out how to restart my computer. Nothing is self-explanatory in Windows 8, I feel like they're going to have trouble getting older users to update to it. I can't see my grandmother navigating in Windows 8 after just now finally getting the hang of the Windows format. She just gets comfortable using a computer and now they go and rearrange everything... LOL
no consistancy.
sometimes windows can move around... sometimes they cant.
sometimes you can right click and get a context menu... sometimes the context menu appears somewhere else...
sometimes you use menus, sometimes you use tabs, sometimes you use panoramics (like wp7).
its fine that they are very different (and indeed they probably SHOULD be very different) so long as you don't HAVE to switch between them.
alone none of those are big deals... but togther they make the user expierence less consistant and not as pleasant.
sometimes windows can move around... sometimes they cant.
sometimes you can right click and get a context menu... sometimes the context menu appears somewhere else...
sometimes you use menus, sometimes you use tabs, sometimes you use panoramics (like wp7).
its fine that they are very different (and indeed they probably SHOULD be very different) so long as you don't HAVE to switch between them.
alone none of those are big deals... but togther they make the user expierence less consistant and not as pleasant.
Microsoft should have just released this on tablets, removed the desktop "app" and it would have probably done well enough especially if they included Microsoft Office. Shipping this on a desktop, though, is a huge mistake and just going to alienate people and make various forms of computing feel like second-class citizens.
