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They should kill Metro/Modern UI on desktop ,it's the stupidest thing Microsoft has ever done.

• MBCook 13y ago
  > it's the stupidest thing Microsoft has ever done. Microsoft Bob? Active Mates Barney? It's a big change, but it's nowhere near the worst thing they've ever done.
  • shadowmint 13y ago
    I don't know, taking a familiar UI, and replacing it with something that the majority of your users hate and don't use* all of a sudden seems pretty high up on stupid things to have done. That old risk matrix stuff~ You know; risk of something going wrong vs. cost of failure if it does. Let's see, risk: we're screwed. Probability people will hate it... I dunno, pretty low. Seems like a great strategy! Let's go for it! By comparison buying Nokia was smart move on the same scale; risk: we're screwed! Probability that nokia will get cold feet and abandon windows phone / go bankrupt; looking not that unlikely. It's easy to judge things as stupid in hindsight, but to class them as truly 'world class stupid', you really have to imagine what sort of things they were thinking about at the time the decisions were made. Metro <--- Was pretty stupid. (* see https://www.soluto.com/reports; https://www.soluto.com/reports; people argue over what the data means, but the raw numbers are pretty compelling)
  • CamperBob2 13y ago
    Every company makes bad decisions on occasion. Refusing to hit the undo button on their bad decisions is the real killer for Microsoft. Microsoft Bob was an optional component from day one. It was never shoved down their customers' throats on the grounds that it was strategically important to the company, as Metro has been. I wouldn't be surprised if Metro is gone within the first two or three calendar quarters of the new CEO's tenure.