Why so much people hate windows 8.x

[rpayne88]

The reason people hate Windows 8 is because of the badly thought-out UI paradigm. For some reason, and going against basic common sense, Microsoft thought that PCs were going overwelmingly switch to touch screens. Anybody who has worked in the computer industry would have been told them that corporations were not going to replace all their PC screens overnight just to satisfy their whim, and that touch screens on desktop PCs only hinder productivity.

Most people use PCs for Word, Excel, email, and web based stuff. Taking your hands of the keyboard and raising them up and bending over to reach your screen is not natural. The bread and butter of Windows is corporate IT, and corporations had no use for a touch-based user interface, so they massively stuck with Windows 7.

As for consumers, Microsoft failed to realize that most people aren't computer geeks. They want the same user experience on their home PCs as on their work PCs, and they also have the same habits and muscle-memory acquired from nearly 20 years of using the Start menu (since Windows 95). Folks like my parents or grandparents simply don't get all this stuff about moving the mouse to a corner to open the "charms" menu?

And then their is the execution of the Start screen interface, with all sorts of hidden gestures that you have to memorize and which conflict with other tasks (how many times have you brought up the Charms menu when you trying to reach the scrollbar?) and a totally different way of switching tasks or closing apps whether they are run from the desktop or from the start screen. Users shouldn't have to care how a program was launched or what sort of interface they are using. All users need to concentrate on is the task that they are trying to perform.

Windows 8 is like you are running two different computers at the same time and it keeps changing the controls for you. Transpose that sort of behavior to a car (inverting controls, moving them around, or suddenly replacing the steering wheel with a joystick depending on the type of road you're on) and it would be a disaster. The whole experience is utterly confusing for most users, and for those that have adapted to it, it requires constant metal gymnastics just to remember how to close an app or to access the settings, which gets in the way of concentrating on the task you are actually doing.

At least they didn't throw out Alt+F4 and cmd.exe.

[rpayne88]

Me too :S

I'd had the thing about 4 weeks at this stage, and had just been "sleeping" it by flipping down the screen (which, to be fair, Windows 8 does very well, it's really quick to fire up again after sleeping) when I realised the thing hadn't been properly shut down since I got it.

Almost the same here. Wound up doing it the VERY old fashioned way: shutdown -s in command.

[Darnok]

Why so much people hate windows 8.x

Because KSP works on linux

[78stonewobble]

Touchscreens have their place... A gui for touchscreens has it's place there... Not everywhere...

"As for consumers, Microsoft failed to realize that most people aren't computer geeks. They want the same user experience on their home PCs as on their work PCs, and they also have the same habits and muscle-memory acquired from nearly 20 years of using the Start menu (since Windows 95). Folks like my parents or grandparents simply don't get all this stuff about moving the mouse to a corner to open the "charms" menu?"

True... Which is why, any new computer to ie. my parents, so far will get windows 7.