This hilarious video explains why Windows 8 sucks [Video]
January 20, 2013 66
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Windows 8 has been out for a few months now. In that time, it has won over some people and distanced others. Brian Boyko is clearly in the latter group because he has created a bloody hilarious video explaining why Windows 8 sucks (in his opinion). While I have personally reserved judgement about Windows 8 until I actually use it for longer than a few minutes (although I am not looking forward to Start screen), I must admit the video is funny. Check it out (warning: the video uses some cuss words):
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[Thanks Col. Panek!]
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[@Frustrated] You say they are out of touch with their users. Yes, but the policy makers at Microsoft have always been that way; arrogant with a we know best attitude. They produce an operating system and say to the masses: We are M$ and here is Windows. You will buy it, use it, and like it. That policy/philosophy has worked and has remained the same for years. What are people to do? There is no choice. Oh yes, a few people will go off to Apple or Linux, but not enough to make a whole lot of difference. If a user is not happy with the version M$ wants to foist on them their only recourse is to stay with an earlier version, providing it’s still being supported, and wait for the next release. Does M$ loose users to the competition? No, not many. It’s true their sales go down for a quarter or two but does anything really change? Are they any less arrogant? No. When the next version comes out they are no different.
[@marg] That’s CRAP in capital letters.
[@Harry44Callahan] Learning more Linux is not a bad idea. I have Linux Mint 14 KDE 64bit on my computer and I could’t be happier. Ironically I found there was a greater learning curve going from Windows 7 to Windows 8 than Windows 7 to Linux Mint 14 KDE. How weird is that?
In a most amusing and easy to understand way Brian Boyko explains exactly why Windows 8 is so terrible. After I got done laughing at his presentation I sat there nodding my head thinking he’s right. He’s absolutely right, Windows 8 is such a bad operating system it’s unusable. How could this happen? How could Microsoft, a company of such great wealth and resources, produce something that is so badly designed? They can go out and hire the best and brightest minds on this planet. This is what they come up with? Is the decision making process in Redmond so flawed they couldn’t see that Windows 8 would be impracticle for desktop computing? We aren’t talking about a problem or two, no, this operating system is riddled through and through with serious design errors. Didn’t any of the project managers see the mistakes? It’s hard to believe that. Far more likely is that the pressure to conform, at the expense of advancment, must be so great at M$ that designers go along with badly thought out ideas. How sad! All I can say is there must have been an awful lot of ass kissing at the Microsoft convention the year of Windows 8 inception.
[@wyz] At least I Know I am not alone in my thinking..unuseable!!
Wait til you open a PDF fie using Windows 8. Now there’s a nightmare. After much frustration (I’m talking weeks) I solved this by downloading a copy from Adobe to my DESKTOP so I wouldn’t have to use the “charm” version. So now I have 2 versions of the same program….
[@MB] ya i gave up tring to print so dl’ed irfanview.
[@jerry] No Jerry, you aren’t alone. I would venture to say the vast majority of people who have tried Windows 8 feel the way we do. It’s so badly thought out I can hardly believe it. Every task that’s easy on any other operating system is a major chore on this one. Microsoft’s upper management should be unmercifully flogged for gross incompetency in thinking this ill thought out mess would work well as a desktop O.S. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, who I’ve spoken to who has tried this browser thinks it’s awful. No one Ilikes it!
Microsoft should fire every person who gave their ok to this abortion and hire Brian Boyko to manage correcting it.
Honestly, I thought my new computer was defective and started to return it (luckily, I resisted my urge to throw it against the wall).
I have used this a month now and have found it no less annoying and unusable. I agree completely that there should be a product recall or maybe better a forced breakup of Microsoft’s and it’s near monopoly.
Hilarious! The worst part is the lack of choice. Windows 8 once learned, works fine.. just much differently. We should be able to get our choice of currently supported versions of Windows when a new computer is purchased. The right people targeted for Windows 8 (tablets) will edge into Windows 8, but please let the folks who dig the old interface keep it for as long as possible!
I got a new laptop for my wife with Windows 8 preinstalled. I wasted no more time with the operating system when I discovered that I couldn’t easily turn off the computer. I actually had to search for “how to turn off computer with windows 8,” and there was this huge multi-step process for shutting the damned thing down. Even then I couldn’t get the computer to shut down; I literally had to remove the battery to get the thing to turn off. I knew if the computer couldn’t easily be turned off, then the rest of the operating system was going to be a disaster. I didn’t even bother going any further. I just wiped the hard drive clean and installed Windows 7. It works fine now.
[@Bob] Totally agree with all the comments that suggest W8 is bad to the bone, a backward step .. but what can we ACTUALLY DO to get MS to acknowledge this ? coz lets face it, there’re going go down the tubes BIGTIME when Joe public walk away on mass !
[@Bob]
It’s really hard to believe that a company that has so many extremely smart people could shoot themselves in the foot so badly. Surely they must have some common sense employees that were saying WTF are we doing? Maybe the corporate culture is one of not tolerating any criticism. Keep your head down and your mouth shut if you want to keep getting the huge paycheck and stock bonuses generated by our software monopoly. I am just totally puzzled by this one.
Two words: Classic Shell, a free program that restores usibility to this travesty of an operating system. I also deactivated my touchpad to prevent accidental swiping. But of course this means I am giving up some of the functionality of my laptop!
I’ve found ways around the problems, but don’t even get me started on how MS Access was ruined with a white-on-white design. Have the student interns taken over at that company?
My company refuses to buy this garbage. IT team uninstalls 8 on all purchases and installs 7. Totally unusable for business.
Microsoft took a big dump on their business users to try and play catchup with the iPad. I predict version 9 will abandon this crap because the business community will not support an OS that doesnt allow for easy multitasking.
This could drive business completely to Apple or Linux
[@Christopher]
I have mine installed on a separate partition just to play around with for the last 4 months or so. I am not even paying much attention to it because it’s not interesting or fun to even play with now. I can not imagine trying to use it at all for business