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Originally Posted by tizmeinnit
The vast majority were happy with windows 95 do you think we should all still be on that?
People were happy with VHS, Audio Tape and CRT televisions does that mean we should stop trying to improve?
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Don't be silly, we should still be on Windows 2000
Windows 8 is super fast and is much better underneath than the previous windows. Unfortunately the GUI upgrade in the way they done it is counter-intuitive and so many agree that it is a complete failure that Microsoft are adding the Start menu back. They should have just spiced up the look a little and kept the usability similar to Windows 95/98/xp/vista/7.
Change for the sake of change is where they screwed up. No doubt some PR guy or someone with a 'Systems Architecture Futurist' type job description had to qualify their large salary by coming up with an idea that sounded great for the executives meetings. Something they could repeat to sound great, something like Unified Desktop Experience Across all Devices. Then explain that users of one device can use the other just fine and there is reduced marketing/production costs and those execs are sold!
Funny how MS insisted on pushing this touchscreen GUI out when the majority of PC users don't have touch screens and thus hate it. They are desperately trying to get people to use Windows 8 yet people who are moving from XP, now they are cutting off the support, are choosing to install Windows 7 instead of 8. At least now they have recognised what most of us have said from the start and bringing the Start menu back to solve their Metro failure.