Your Windows phone sucks.<\/strong> It’s not selling. No one likes it.<\/p>\nNot being original, Microsoft is obviously aping Apple with its approach to Windows 8.<\/p>\n
Apple has been working for some time on melding its desktop operating system, OS X, with its mobile operating system, iOS. They’re doing so slowly. They’re doing it right.<\/p>\n
I believe that Apple fully understands that desktop (and laptop) computers are productivity stations. They are not designed for your ambling 20-something who listens to music while walking aimlessly in a big city, texts more than talks, and really wants to check into the bistro because, well, his whole life is online.<\/p>\n
Sorry! I want to use my computer to work, thank you.<\/p>\n
Microsoft misses that boat.<\/p>\n
So Windows 8 is basically Windows XP wrapped inside a clunky smartphone interface. Here are the things that are going to piss you off:<\/p>\n
1. There is no more Start button.
\n2. There is no more Control Panel.
\n3. The priority is apps, not productivity software.
\n4. Nothing works well, unless you have a touchscreen.<\/p>\n
Specifically, I believe Windows 8 won’t survive in a business environment. That’s been Microsoft’s bread and butter for decades: The office environment. People use Windows at work. They get stuff done. That’s going to be far more difficult with the new “I’m a 20-something ambling to the coffee store” interface.<\/p>\n
Specifically pay attention to my point #4 above: You need a touchscreen interface to get the most from Windows 8. The touchscreen on my Lenovo Tablet PC (a convertible laptop) is a one-point touchscreen. It doesn’t work with Windows 8. Nope, you need a five point<\/em> touchscreen to make the Metro interface work.<\/p>\nDo you know how many five-point touchscreen laptops and monitors there are out there today?<\/p>\n
ZERO.<\/p>\n
So not only do you not really need Windows 8, you don’t even yet have a computer that handles its hardware demands. In fact, that fully runs afoul of my requirements for any operating system update: Does it have features you need or want?<\/p>\n
Windows 8? Nope!<\/p>\n
What can you do about this? Well, I’d recommend that you sell your Microsoft stock now! If you don’t have any Microsoft stock, then short it. Seriously. Windows 8 is doom for the company. It’s poorly thought out, poorly executed and, like all the odd releases of Windows (95, ME, Vista), it’s going to stink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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It’s going to be ugly.