A couple weeks ago I bought a new Asus notebook with Windows 8 installed. Great computer and *fast* but....
Trying to put a tablet style interface on a computer operating system is, in my most humble opinion, ludicrous. Full screen apps from the "Metro" interface really hit me today when I wanted to refer to an email from the Win 8 email app (runs under Metro) to my web design software which is FrontPage and runs under the desktop. You can't do it, or, you can but I didn't have the desire nor the time to figure it out. I've been 'in the business' since the mid 80's so I know my way around. I'm now an Oracle / PeopleSoft development team lead.
To make a short story long, I'll be thinking it over through the weekend but am about ready to bite the bullet, leave Windows, and exchange this laptop for a MacBook Pro. I've got all the other iStuff and my wife has a MacBook so I know the advantages. To be compatible with work I'd need either a Citrix VPN client that runs under the Mac OS or, worst case, I'd install VMware and run Windows 7 under that to use the VPN client. I know I could blow away Win 8, install 7 and be done with it. I'd also need a remote desktop client. But what's the point if this is the future direction of Microsoft? Hypothetical question...
Oh yeah, my other gripe is, they say how blazingly fast Win 8 starts up. Yeah, right. Sure, you get to the signon screen in about 15 seconds but what they don't say is after that, there's still about a minute or so of the spinning wheel while the OS continues to load. All they did was throw the screen up on the monitor. No way does the entire OS load that fast. What a ruse.
Anyway, thanks for listening. I guess I'm just trying to justify to myself the added cost. Thinking cap back on...
/babble mode off
-jeff
Trying to put a tablet style interface on a computer operating system is, in my most humble opinion, ludicrous. Full screen apps from the "Metro" interface really hit me today when I wanted to refer to an email from the Win 8 email app (runs under Metro) to my web design software which is FrontPage and runs under the desktop. You can't do it, or, you can but I didn't have the desire nor the time to figure it out. I've been 'in the business' since the mid 80's so I know my way around. I'm now an Oracle / PeopleSoft development team lead.
To make a short story long, I'll be thinking it over through the weekend but am about ready to bite the bullet, leave Windows, and exchange this laptop for a MacBook Pro. I've got all the other iStuff and my wife has a MacBook so I know the advantages. To be compatible with work I'd need either a Citrix VPN client that runs under the Mac OS or, worst case, I'd install VMware and run Windows 7 under that to use the VPN client. I know I could blow away Win 8, install 7 and be done with it. I'd also need a remote desktop client. But what's the point if this is the future direction of Microsoft? Hypothetical question...
Oh yeah, my other gripe is, they say how blazingly fast Win 8 starts up. Yeah, right. Sure, you get to the signon screen in about 15 seconds but what they don't say is after that, there's still about a minute or so of the spinning wheel while the OS continues to load. All they did was throw the screen up on the monitor. No way does the entire OS load that fast. What a ruse.
Anyway, thanks for listening. I guess I'm just trying to justify to myself the added cost. Thinking cap back on...
/babble mode off
-jeff
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