http://news.yahoo.com/windows-8-consume ... -news.html Anyone want to give "Windows 8 Consumer Preview" a try? http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso I am interested in what others think because I feel that technology is about to depart from my comfort zone and move into an area that is foreign to me.
Nice service pack! I though Debian had a little demon-looking guy for a logo... I'm sure it's going to get out of hand at some point, but what's changing from Windows 7 to Windows 8 to motivate this concern?
I may not be very tech savvy, but that doesn't look like a service pack. It looks like competition. I am comfortable with the older ways of software, having known DOS and the early versions of Windows and my introduction to computers was at the rise of Internet 2.0 (& its HTML) so I am use to computer images being a certain way. You could say that I am still stuck in 1990's. Windows 8 is an intergration of smart phone software and PC software... ... and it is only a matter of time before the internet finishes changing too. I have never used a smart phone so I have no familiarity with that tech. I only recently acquired a cell phone, and it is a TracFone with not that very many features. Basically, I am still use to the technology from about 10 years ago. And I never thought to educate myself on modern telecommunication devices. In fact, I delibrately avoided them. Soon, I won't have a choice in the matter because everything is going to change. Man, I am only in my thirty's and I still feel dated.
How the hell do you dumb down a computer OS interface? This is the most ridiculous and asinine change in software presentation I've ever seen since AOL was released.
Well get with it, Xyle! As you've observed, time is marching along and not waiting on you! I never got very far with DOS, but with my experience with Unix, I bet I would do all right with it now. I remember I liked Windows 3.1 well enough, but that's been so long ago and I've gotten so used to the Windows of this millennium that I don't even remember if 3.1 was superior.
I'm pretty sure if you went back and tried to use Windows 3.1 now, you'd find it horrendously clunky, bug-prone, and generally unusable. It's a myth that things were better in the old days. In 10 years time, Gross will be wistfully remembering how simple and easy to use Windows 8 was compared to that horrendous looking Windows Y21 that's just come out for the iThrune.
"The comfort zone is a behavioural state within which a person operates in an anxiety-neutral condition, using a limited set of behaviours to deliver a steady level of performance, usually without a sense of risk (White 2009). A person's personality can be described by his or her comfort zones. Highly successful persons may routinely step outside their comfort zones, to accomplish what they wish. A comfort zone is a type of mental conditioning that causes a person to create and operate mental boundaries. Such boundaries create an unfounded sense of security. Like inertia, a person who has established a comfort zone in a particular axis of his or her life, will tend to stay within that zone without stepping outside of it. To step outside a person's comfort zone, they must experiment with new and different behaviours, and then experience the new and different responses that then occur within their environment." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_zone Comfort zone does not imply unwillingness to change, it does, however, imply a reluctance: If windows 8 sucks, why change? Therefore, my question of what people think of Windows 8 in order to determine if the change is a worthwhile change... And of yet, no takers to the challenge. I suspose I'm going to have to wait until a more feasible time... specificially, sometime after the main release when people have had an opportunity to encounter it. I swear, it seems like no understood my query. Dumb down? I don't see the correlation between your statement and my quote.
I quoted the end of your post that contained a picture of the new OS, and it looks quite like a smart phone interface, as you've said. That's dumbing down - the reason mobile phones look like that is for ease of use with no hardware to manipulate programs on screen you weren't born with, hence icons large enough to press with a finger on a touch screen. Using a home computer, this is ridiculous simply because you've got hardware integrated in the device using it. Now, should there be different interfaces for touch pads and computers, I'll rescind my statement. The system looks clunky and obstructive, and it takes away the point of having a desktop image - in this way, I feel I've addressed your query by demonstrating how this OS is also out of my comfort zone, simply by being so goddamn ugly it's mother would throw it off of a cliff, were she a Spartan.
