3 ms·

So I think we agree that there are only fairly minor issues, but many people feel that they are major. I really think that a lot of this reaction is just becau

So I think we agree that there are only fairly minor issues, but many people feel that they are major. I really think that a lot of this reaction is just because it's popular to hate Microsoft - so any small perceived missteps are blown massively out of proportion (particularly by the media). Microsoft could have gone down the path of keeping everything exactly the same, and providing no innovation; that probably would have worked great in the short term - but they are trying to do something new and there are growing pains associated with it.

dspillett 13y ago
> So I think we agree that there are only fairly minor issues, but many people feel that they are major. Essentially, yes. > Microsoft could have gone down the path of keeping everything exactly the same ... that probably would have worked in the short term I'm not sure it would, as people would have even less reason to upgrade. The man on the street is not going to be impressed by under-the-hood improvements to the point of spending upgrade cash so while they'd have saved some hassle on new sales they would have lost revenue on upgrades. Admittedly the reception has made that upgrade income smaller than they hoped for anyway, but that is hindsight talking. > but they are trying to do something new and there are growing pains* associated with it* This is a bit part of the perception problem I think. A proportion of the of the people who have upgraded (ignoring those who have opinions despite not having tried it) feel that Windows 8 is using them as guinea pigs for the new tablet stuff that they don't feel fits with their desktop use well. If MS had made the new UI changes more easily turn-off-and-on-able initially they might have avoided some of this friction.