Throughout the years, the Mac OS has addressed their UI problems like the right-click and control button and worked on innovations of their own like the App Expose, Mission Control and the Gestures. Over the years, they have experimented on various improvements and removed those that posed complexity and discomfort for the users. I have to admit Apple did imitate some UI tweaks from Windows, but they covered it up with innovations themselves.

The way the Win8 OS has been following the standards set by Macbooks by implementing new features like Apps and a Launchpad-esque Start Screen is definitely an experiment to improvement, but what problem did they address in the first place? The desktop interface of Windows XP was already outstanding. I found a hard time with Windows 7 because of all the extra animations that slowed the progress of my matters and this radical shift to the Shell shows that Microsoft is trying too hard to veer away from the staple XP UI that has given Windows its identity throughout the years.

It will be great for tablets but desktops and laptops w/o touchscreens are a different story. This will cause a big blow to Win8 sales until they give users the choice to staying with the original Start button interface or shifting to the Shell Start Screen.

I can see this analogous to the Facebook Timeline implementation where we see posts on the web of people cheering for their triumph of being able to stick to the classic Facebook interface.

Please do not digress from the topic at hand. Comment only when your opinions or rebuttals have proper direction. Thank you.

The ecological niche I was talking about was the inherent market share of Apple among the middle to upper class. Have you watched movies or series lately? Or have you watched movies or series at all? MBPs and iMacs have been widely used by executives, parents, teen-agers, and even geek and techies like in Big Bang Theory that are supposedly accustomed to the more gaming-friendly system of Windows. Macs have always been that symbol of high culture and the imitation of HP through the Spectre XT is what I see as a misguided attempt.

On a side note, why do you reply to every comment you disagree to, anyway? Don’t you have anything better to do? You go about ranting about your argument without even seeing the scope of my claims as your rebuttals are clearly misinformed.

Furthermore, the myth that Windows 7 is perfect is in fact wrong.

Windows 7 still has issues with things like USB 3.0 mass storage compatibility that have been resolved in Windows 8.

As a Windows Phone user for the past two years, I also am used to large tiles with lots of info. My desktop on Windows 7 is an empty void. I only use programs. I will give it a go, and I’m sure in my first world life I’ll suck it up and get used to it.

The main inconvenience I can see, having not used it, is not having taskbar multitasking in the new UI. Otherwise I say give it time.

How so?

People buying new machines from 4Q will get Win8 whether they want it or not… these illegal bundling deals are still around to irk us. I won’t be buying anything without a test drive on a Linux live USB stick.

http://leapmotion.com/

I’ve personally pre-ordered mine a while back but if these where incorporated into Laptops and PC keyboards they would be imo revolutionary!

I was enjoying this article until I came to that bit of journalistic hyperbole. This is not the sort of thing I’ve come to expect from Delimiter. Come on Renai, I get that you don’t personally like it, but a trainwreck, really?

I’ve been using Windows 8 for a few weeks on a touch device (Samsung series 7 slate PC) and a non-touch desktop. I’m really enjoying it on the former, and after a period of adjustment on the latter I’m finding it works well enough. Yes it’s a pain at first but so was Windows 95 when it came out, and I remember how much everyone bitched and moaned about it back then. People don’t like different, even if it is a genuine leap forward.

I’m putting it out there: in another year you will look back on these comments and be embarrassed you wrote them. Ditto for almost all of the Windows 8 haters. I’m putting a reminder in my calendar as we speak. :)

Windows 8 has done neither – they’ve ripped out the old way people have been doing things since Win95, enforced a new touch/hot spot regime and expect their users to deal with it. All it’s going to do is alienate a bunch of users who will more than likely give a Mac a lot more consideration than they every would have done in the past.

I’m not sure I’m going to be able to convince my elderly parents that Win8 with all its gestures and hidden hot spots is a step forward – so for me and plenty of other people solutions like Classic Shell will become a standard addition for all Win8 installs, along with the usual Java, Adobe Reader, FireFox/Chrome etc etc.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/23/classic_shell_gives_windows_8_a_start_button/

Is that actually your opinion? Im not sure if you’re trolling or what.

I definitely dont agree with your opinion that they all look like Apple products, given Apple’s ‘invented’ almost nothing. Their products are using ingredients of other products to make a better experiece and newer product. The Ultrabook is a patented design by Intel, before the MBA.

Don’t like the “mouse to side of screen, then to the other side, then to the other side again” stuff they have done. Its as thought they have invested heavily in some RSI treatment, then designed the UI to inflict as much mouse hand pain as possible. Am sure its ok on a touch screen, widescreen desktop.. not so much.

The less said about their “apps” the better too, at least for a desktop. Just so awful as to be beyond belief.

Maybe they should have followed the KDE line and had a checkbox for “I want the tablet / netbook UI”, and keep the entire windows 7 / xp / whatever type desktop for everyone else?

I hate to say this, but I’d you believe ‘all these products’ just look like MacBooks….I think you might have an issue with Apple love. I’ve not seen many Ultrabooks that look like MacBooks and those that do I find boring. Because the MacBook IS boring its design hasn’t changed in 5 years….

The innovation in the marketplace is strong. Apple have had a static share of the PC market of LESS than 15% for years. They are not a huge threat to any of the larger market share competitors.

Well, we’ll have to agree to disagree. Cause I find myself constantly reaching out on the laptops I use. Particularly after using my phone or tablet….