MICROSOFT'S NEW WINDOWS 8 IS ACTUALLY NOT WINDOWS!

I’m one of windows 8 enthusiast that’s why when i learned it's available, right away I downloaded it and installed the release preview version. And I’m REALLY surprised to find out that windows 8 is not actually windows! don’t get me wrong, I know it got plenty of windows code under the hood but the User-Interface in windows 8 is so different and uses in such different ways that it’s much better to think that it’s a completely new operating system that replacing the old windows.

Microsoft has chosen not to follow all those best practices that we used to know. And as a result I think there’s gonna be some real risk in windows 8 transition. In any case, you would be a fool to ignore the changes that where going to be made by windows 8 WHEN IT RELEASES IN THE MARKET this OCTOBER 26.

I listed 5 major things I discover after experimenting and stirring WINDOWS 8 that causes me headache.

1. Windows 8 has a totally new default interface: Metro UI. When I look at Metro, however, I see colors, designs, applications that can either run as a small tile or as full screen with NO WAY TO RESIZE OR MOVE WINDOWS!

2. MICROSOFT HAS DROPPED THE START BUTTON IN WINDOWS 8! Almost everyone knows the current Windows interface. It's changed over the years, but you could take someone who last touched Windows back in the Windows 95 days and drop that in front of them of Windows 7 and they'd be able to get work done.

3. A touch interface, but PC’s and laptop users can't touch it. Metro UI real point, of course, isn't for desktop users. It is design basically for tablet users.

 

4. I can't think of a single significant new improvement in Windows 8. Faster booting? A Windows Store? Live boot from a USB drive? Come on! All these features have been around in other operating systems for years, and while sure, they're nice, put them all together and at most they're worth a Windows 7 Service Patch--not a whole new operating system. 

5. I think about the poor Windows programmers. You've spent years learning .NET, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and now they have to learn WinRT and Jupiter/XAML.