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I have Windows 8 (desktop). I cannot express enough how much I DON'T want that version of Skype. If Skype force me to use their "app" version then I will liter

I have Windows 8 (desktop). I cannot express enough how much I DON'T want that version of Skype. If Skype force me to use their "app" version then I will literally stop using Skype entirely. I also don't want to be "always on." In fact things like Google's Circles where I can select with greater granularity who I am "on" for is my number one request for Skype. At the moment I am forced to have two Skype accounts, one for home, and one for work for that reason.

thomaslutz 14y ago
Do you like Windows 8 so far? Why did you switch? I tried the Release Candidate for like 10 minutes, but hated it so much I deleted the VM it was running in immediately afterwards.
- UnoriginalGuy 14y ago
  I switched to Windows 8 because I wanted to familiarise myself with it for its eventual launch. It is my opinion that you cannot have a valid opinion on something (good or bad) unless you've given it a fair shot. I am running the RTM (retail) version released on MSDN/Technet+/Volume Licences/et al. I've ran it for about a month and while Windows Explorer is a big step forwards, everything related to the "Modern" UI (Metro) is a big step backwards. The apps are poor, the finish is poor, and the intuition is non-existent. The whole thing feels like an unfinished product. It is like they released it mid-production and thus ideas are only half baked. For just one example, the old-fashioned Control Panel is still used to configure 75%+ of the system but yet getting to it is now buried. Originally I was going to recommend you get W8 if you had a touch device, but given how badly Modern UI is currently performing I am instead recommending getting either an iPad or an Android Tablet. Both of which will give a better user experience. The biggest issue I would say is not the design/concepts but instead just how poorly they have been carried out, how rushed, and how messy. Imagine for a second that Apple's development philosophy was 70% features and then 30% polish. Now imagine that Microsoft's previous development philosophy was 85% features and then 15% polish. Well on this same scale Windows 8 would be 99% features 1% polish (with a rounding error of 1%).
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thomaslutz 14y ago

Do you like Windows 8 so far? Why did you switch? I tried the Release Candidate for like 10 minutes, but hated it so much I deleted the VM it was running in immediately afterwards.

UnoriginalGuy 14y ago
I switched to Windows 8 because I wanted to familiarise myself with it for its eventual launch. It is my opinion that you cannot have a valid opinion on something (good or bad) unless you've given it a fair shot. I am running the RTM (retail) version released on MSDN/Technet+/Volume Licences/et al. I've ran it for about a month and while Windows Explorer is a big step forwards, everything related to the "Modern" UI (Metro) is a big step backwards. The apps are poor, the finish is poor, and the intuition is non-existent. The whole thing feels like an unfinished product. It is like they released it mid-production and thus ideas are only half baked. For just one example, the old-fashioned Control Panel is still used to configure 75%+ of the system but yet getting to it is now buried. Originally I was going to recommend you get W8 if you had a touch device, but given how badly Modern UI is currently performing I am instead recommending getting either an iPad or an Android Tablet. Both of which will give a better user experience. The biggest issue I would say is not the design/concepts but instead just how poorly they have been carried out, how rushed, and how messy. Imagine for a second that Apple's development philosophy was 70% features and then 30% polish. Now imagine that Microsoft's previous development philosophy was 85% features and then 15% polish. Well on this same scale Windows 8 would be 99% features 1% polish (with a rounding error of 1%).

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