Thread: Windows 8 Consumer Preview Video Review with whoosh, kemical, and Mike

Originally Posted by Adamsappleone

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Many of us have been using Classic Shell for 8, for quite sometime now.
And, if that's what it takes for you to dip in to Windows 8, no offense but, it sounds like you've been judging a book by it's cover.

Regards
Don

Absolutely not. I simply could not work with win7 UI until I installed Classic Shell. I cannot use ribbon nor MACs simply because everything is hidden and is not intuitional. When win95 first came out I did not even have to go through a learning curve as everything was so intuitive and logical that navigating was very easy. When drop down menus were replaced with Ribbon and the new start menu of win7 lacked the classic start menu I was at a loss. Call me stupid (my first computer was the ZX80 and have owned a plethora of computers since then.) I have patents to my name and am a products designer by trade. Sorry but I simply cannot understand the hide and seek concept first introduced by Apple and then adopted by MS.

No Classic shell means no going to new OSs.

I pre ordered win7 and have been using it since its release. I tried many times to use its UI but gave up. So Classic menus it is or nothing.

Have a great day everyone

I definitely understand and for the most part sympathize with your plight.
If people, especially those of us who have been around since Windows 3, would be more honest, we would all likely agree that when a new OS announcement comes out, our first thought is, OK, let's see where they put everything this time.
I love your "hide and seek" analogy.
This OS is nothing more than a drive by Microsoft for cross platform acceptance and identity. Hey my Tablet (Slate) looks just like my desktop, Wow my phone looks just like my desktop. There is nothing actually great here for the average everyday user, it is not at all intuitive as any number of internet videos will prove as they show people setting at the lock screen wondering what to do next.
There are a lot of us sitting around looking at this new OS, through our nerdy, tape adorned, rose colored glasses, saying things like this is cool or oh, that's nice, when actually many and I do mean many are going to find the OS more than a little frustrating.
Is it faster? Yes a little bit. Does it have any cool features under the hood? Yes a couple. Does it bring anything of real benefit to the overall user experience? You decide (and it sounds like you have, as many have, and many more will).
When Windows 95 first shipped, the departure from the old Program Manager interface to the new Start Button was so drastic that I believed that if you purchased a retail full version or a retail upgrade version of the CD (not sure about the 1.4 cassette media) I seem to recall a second CD something about "Getting Started" or "Windows Starts Here" or words to that effect. I suspect that they might do something similar in the way of a tutorial CD/DVD included in the packaging or a big tile on the Start Page for an integrated How To Video.
Regards
Randy

Your missing the point & simply balking @ change itself. Change (nothing to do w/ Win8 or Windows 29) is part of existence but, many humans balk @ it... not, actually the item that has changed. And (the point is) Windows8, on a regular desktop PC or laptop, works very nicely w/out adding anything retro, just so you know.

I'll let others have the thread, now

Cheers,
Drew

Originally Posted by Drew

Your missing the point & simply balking @ change itself. Change (nothing to do w/ Win8 or Windows 29) is part of existence but, many humans balk @ it... not, actually the item that has changed. And (the point is) Windows8, on a regular desktop PC or laptop, works very nicely w/out adding anything retro, just so you know.

I'll let others have the thread, now

Cheers,
Drew

I agree that we must change everything so let us start by getting rid of the RETRO round wheel and redesign the all new SQUARE wheel; Perfect for parking your car, has built in micro processed dampening mechanism, gyroscopic stabiliser, Y axis dampening, and comes in cool candy colours.
Yup! Square wheels are light years ahead of the now defunct thousands of years old round wheel design. Wow talk about fashion victims! Have a very happy day!

This OS is nothing more than a drive by Microsoft for cross platform acceptance and identity.

Agreed Randy.. Microsoft does not have an os that covers all the hardware bases until now.. It's simply addressing the balance. If one doesn't like the os then one has the right to not buy or indeed use it.......

Should I remind you that Microsoft is by all definitions a MONOPOLY and as such does not allow us to have an equivalent choice? If MS was not a monopoly and there were 3 or more OS developers out there with OSs then it would have been a different story. Of course they would all have to have some form of standardisation but market forces would come into play and allow the consumer something which is noticeably lacking; Namely "CHOICE"!