Fear and Loathing and Windows 8
Michael Mace,
Mobile Opportunity,
Jun 04, 2012
I haven't looked at Windows 8 yet but this sounds ominous: "Windows 8 is a revolutionary transition in Windows, easily the biggest change since the move from DOS to Windows in the early 1990s." As someone who adapted to the new Windows from DOS very slowly (not aided in the least by a special swicth on my mouse that had to be toggled for Windows) I am wary indeed. What Microsoft intends to do, of course, is to translate its lead in deskop operating systems to mobiles and tablets. As a result, "Windows 8 is not Windows... It looks different, it works differently, and it forces you to re-learn much of what you know today about computers." The start button is gone, control panels are gone, and it looks at first glance like the point is to transfer control of the hardware from the user to the vendor. You can't even turn it off! (Well, you can - with "five actions: a hover, a sweep, and three clicks. Plus the command is hidden in a very non-intuitive place."
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