I'm getting onto a month and Windows 8 is excellent except for the Start Menu.
Sad but true. I'm glad you're liking it but you're in the minority.
And just dont see why is it bad
I'm getting onto a month and Windows 8 is excellent except for the Start Menu.
Sad but true. I'm glad you're liking it but you're in the minority.
And just dont see why is it bad
That's probably because most of them are hipsters in Starbucks. Windows 8 has thus far outpaced 7 in sales.
Personally i tried Windows 8 on my Mac using Parralles and i thought what a waste of time the operating system was it lasted no more than 30 mins and i removed it.
Microsoft will not be as good as OSX
http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/27/windows-8-40-million-copies-sold/citation needed.
citation needed.
Microsoft has admitted that win8 sales are below expectations so i'm not sure where you're pulling that from.
And the start screen is only the tip of the iceberg.
There are deal breaker type problems, just a few i've noticed so far (I'm running it in a VM and trying to use it day to day at work as I'll be forced onto it to support server 2012 - the admin tools only work on win8). I'm also the guy who builds our SOE and the deployment infrastructure.
- search is vastly inferior to Win7 - you can't specify date ranges in the metro search, or search all content types. you can do that if you drop back to the classic explorer search in the desktop, but that can't search metro file types. there is NO WAY to search for all references to something across all document types. this is a massive deal breaker for me
- the sandboxed metro apps can't talk to each other at all. say i want to send an IM to a contact. IM client has no ability to see my contacts. contacts app has no way to send the contact to the metro IM program
- remote desktop sessions rely on hitting the tiny little corners to use the GUI - which sucks if you don't run the session full screen. which you probably don't want to do because you may have reference material or another program open that you are using to make changes and view the effect in the remote session
- the only way to run multiple apps in different windows on the same screen is via the classic desktop. which has a totally different UI paradigm to metro. so you're constantly forced to switch between 2 different UIs to get anything done. no, metro's side-by-side feature where one app is forced to run in a tiny strip and you only use 2 apps at the same time is not a substitute
There's a reason OS X and iOS have different UIs and only some aspects have been ported. It's because touch (on the screen) does not work on a desktop.
Microsoft haven't figured that out yet.
But hey, they get to add a feature-list tickbox to the promo material of "fully touch enabled!" or some such crap.
Microsoft made a full-screen only GUI application launcher before, that sucked. It was called dosshell.
Don't get me wrong - i'm all for the kernel, powershell and remote administration improvements in Win8. It's just such a shame they've gone backwards in so many of the areas of the OS that you actually have to use day to day.
There is already an aftermarket "start menu" button to give you back the classic Windows 7 interface.
All other complains are either you not being used to something or whinging about limitations of some extra portion of the OS that you don't have to use, such as Metro apps.
As I said, the start-menu thing is barely scratching the surface of the problems.
And running third party shareware in an enterprise production environment is really not a good idea, support wise.
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I'm sure its great on a tablet, too. My desktop is not a tablet.
Any enterprise network admin worth a crap would use Linux. Mac Server is trash.