They sold training sessions ?
This guy is right about the fact that users could not care less about the version number for Windows, Mac OS X, or Android. By the way, the latest emulator for Android just got the Android L look last night, along with the new SDK. So release is imminent. But who cares ? Most android devices around cannot be updated anyway.
Back to Windows, I think Windows 10 is about time, to undue the major blunder Windows 8 was : how dare they call Windows 8 ‘Windows’, when the poor thing was in fact doing full screen, windowless new API ‘Metro’ catastrophes ? I love the comparison with Vista and Windows 7 : get that shït as far as possible in the mind of the public so it better be forgotten ASAP.
Before yesterday I had only seen screenshots of Windows 8. I knew it was ugly. But seeing it in it’s full gory glory was so great. After testing Yosemite on the weekend I find now that Yosemite doesn’t look that bad. Windows 8 is ugly and awful. Are all these guys colorblind? Have they never seen a user updating from Windows 7 to 8?
Windows 10 still has childish colors, but windows do not have the ugly grey frame of Windows 8, and they use again the desktop metaphor. Actually, it seems they are trying to get closer to the Mac OS X window design.
Windows 8 is ugly, ugly, ugly, no good, yucky, ridiculous, painful, idiotic, and should never have been released
After 3 years release, it captured no more than 13% of the Windows installations, mostly though pre-installed.
+1 on that! Although I think that most of this applies to the user interface.
I have Windows 8 installed on virtual machines essentially running headless. Windows 8 for all its bad user interface, is still quite solid underneath. So, for those machines not requiring regular user interaction, it is actually pretty good. (I still installed Classic Shell on the VM’s, so on the rare occasions when I need to interact, they are usable)
On the one laptop purchased with Windows 8.1 pre-installed, the first thing I did was to download Classic Shell. This utility and some additional tweaking of the interface makes it usable.
I downloaded the technical preview of Windows 10. While it is a vast improvement over 8, I feel that Microsoft did not backtrack far enough. I am still learning the new OS. Perhaps there are ways to tweak it to satisfaction.
I agree that Windows 8 and 8.1 are pretty solid. If only the user interface was not such a mess. I use Start Menu 8 which is pretty much the same as Classic Shell, so I almost never see the Metro cr@P .
My issue is that I develop for the Windows Store, so I do have to verify my apps run fine and that they have the proper icons and stuff. I do regret the new API is itself botched, with things such as a print method that has been coded by an autistic cretin.
Windows 10 is in my opinion much better in terms of performances, faster and apparently more stable. As for the UI, it seems they have done their max to get close to actually something like Mac OS X with borderless windows that, if they where not so square, are rather close in design.
Now they are still confused, with a foot in touch and the other in desktop, which is avoided by Apple with Mac OS X on one hand and iOS on the other. Incidentaly, Google does the same with Chrome OS and Android.