Windows 8 Snippets

D-Dan · Oct 13, 2011, 11:53:32

More out of academic interest than anything I downloaded and installed the Windows 8 developer preview in a VM last night. Installation went smoothly enough, and only took 10 - 15 minutes, and when it had finished, Ughhh. I hated it.

It looks like a child's toy and there is nothing intuitive about it in my opinion. The much heralded tiled interface is ugly and confusing, and the desktop mode is nothing more than a kludge that doesn't provide a proper desktop.

Oh, and I, too, haven't figured out how to quit a running program, yet. I can say with some certainty that I won't be getting it. I'll stick with Debian, and Win 7 when Windows is an absolute must (I think I had to use Windows once 3 weeks ago for, ermm, um - Oh yes! had to update it.)

pctech · Oct 13, 2011, 11:56:49

Alt + F4 should work.

D-Dan · Oct 13, 2011, 12:00:13

I should have thought of that, though again, not a particularly intuitive way of doing things (and I always take the view that Alt-F4 is there for misbehaving programmes anyway).

pctech · Oct 13, 2011, 12:01:23

Them pesky mouse users

D-Dan · Oct 13, 2011, 13:09:11

I'd hazard a guess that it will be even more cumbersome on a touch screen only system

.Griff. · Oct 13, 2011, 13:13:51

Quote from: D-Dan on Oct 13, 2011, 13:09:11
I'd hazard a guess that it will be even more cumbersome on a touch screen only system

Windows 8 is clearly designed with touch screen devices in mind and it's for that exact reason it's hard to quit applications on a desktop PC. I.E We don't have a "home" button like touch devices do.

Steve · Oct 13, 2011, 14:10:52

I think the last comment's very important certainly with IOS (a touch screen OS) and to a lesser extent Mac OS X you don't bother to close anything you just move onto something else.

Technical Ben · Oct 13, 2011, 16:16:17

Arrggh. Worse idea ever.

Basically, Bill is not there. I see Windows 8 might be a "design by committee". The local town here has a shopping hall constructed by "committee" cost over 6 mil, it's in debt to the tune of £400k and has no customers. Wonder how well MS will do.