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I'm one of the few people who liked 8. I didn't mind the start screen and I was disappointed when 10 took away my Charms bar and related gestures, and remain li
by h2zizzle 2y ago
I'm one of the few people who liked 8. I didn't mind the start screen and I was disappointed when 10 took away my Charms bar and related gestures, and remain livid over the Windows Update/telemetry situation. I understood what they were doing: with the phone and tablet OSes, the goal was a unified ecosystem like Apple's. Effortless movement between form factors. They didn't do themselves any favors by only sort of delivering on that promise, but the main problem was that no one explained the fundamental dynamic: Apple is a cult, Microsoft is a jail. So while the users of the former's OSes will happily rationalize or ignore even negative changes, Microsoft's users are always somewhat resentful, no matter what. This was the curse of their effective monopoly. Something finally snapped with 8's failure, giving us MS' apparent abandonment of any pretense and an evolution toward a Google-like "users are the product" attitude.
The Ghost of Bushes Past continue to haunt us, I suppose.
- skydhash 2y agoWhile I liked Win 7 more, I didn't mind Win 8.1. But convergence won't happen. Everyone is quick to forget that the devices are actually in different physical forms when interacting with them. I think Gnome 3 is the most successful, because their utilities and first party apps have the right kind of compromise while not trying to enforce their view on other software workflow. iPad OS would have been great too, if they went for a free floating windows management and some widget redesign instead of the awkward stage manager.
- bombcar 2y agoThe tiles thing that Microsoft tried for one of the iterations of Windows Phone was actually quite nice, I forget the OS that kind of went with that, but - they never doubled down on it and abandoned that phone OS soon afterwards.