Microsoft co-founder calls Windows 8 puzzling and confusing

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/04/2012 05:11 AM | source: | 22 comment(s)

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen said he found Windows 8 puzzling and confusing initially, but is confident that users would eventually learn to like the new operating system. In a post to his personal blog Tuesday -- strangely titled in the third person as, "Paul's take on Windows 8," Allen said he has been running Windows 8 Release Preview -- the public sneak peak Microsoft shipped May 31 -- on both a traditional desktop as well as on a Samsung 700T tablet.

The latter, designed for Windows 7, not its successor, has been handed out or loaned in quantities by Microsoft to developers, analysts and members of the press in an effort to convince them to create software, or try out the touch-first features of Windows 8.

"I did encounter some puzzling aspects of Windows 8," Allen wrote, and said the dual, and dueling user interfaces (UIs), were confusing.

"The bimodal user experience can introduce confusion, especially when two versions of the same application -- such as Internet Explorer -- can be opened and run simultaneously," Allen said.

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WhiteLightning
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#4423684 Posted on: 10/04/2012 07:13 AM

just like everyone got used to active desktop

StriderNZ
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#4423786 Posted on: 10/04/2012 10:41 AM

I have to say that I am really disappointed with the negative press 3D Guru has been giving Windows 8. This article is the perfect example how to twist a story to suit your point of view... I notice that you never posted the part of the article where Paul Allen said "In summary, I'm excited about Windows 8 and am confident that existing Windows users will feel the same after they have had a chance to use it."

I myself have been using Windows 8 RTM on my gaming rig and laptop since it became available in August and haven't looked back.. Is it perfect "no," is it the first step to something new and inovative which will change the way Windows users interact with their PC's, tablets, laptops? "I believe it is."

Spreading hate and misinformation is not helping anyone, you should stick to topics that you actually know about.

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#4423790 Posted on: 10/04/2012 10:49 AM

I've tried to like Windows 8, i've tested each beta release and the RTM and i just hate it. They haven't really added anything worthwhile that Windows 7 can't already do. The only machine its actually worth putting it on is either a touchscreen tablet or a windows phone.

As well as being unnecessarily long-winded it also looks cheap and fugly.

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#4423792 Posted on: 10/04/2012 10:50 AM

Also, if people don't like the "Metro" desktop, they have the option of using the classic desktop.

http://www.winrumors.com/windows-8-classic-desktop-features-video/

Mozaik
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#4423795 Posted on: 10/04/2012 11:02 AM

I think that Win8 is going to be skipped big time and Win9 will be the "next step" for a lot of people if it will give enough new features to attract the Win7 users.
It is that Win 7 is very robust and well designed,at least for me.
I think that you cant make a "jack of all trades(windows)" so to speak as the Win8 does look.

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