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Just took a brief look at a breakdown of pros and cons. The whole article was doomsday titled.

I expect anyone daft enough to get a touchscreen to use at a desk, as opposed to a touchscreen on a pad, is going to pick up so much RSI they'll spend their days in agony. The mouse is already bad enough without straining shoulders too.

I've used Microsoft's ribbons and I dislike them. A pull-down menu lets your eye focus on a subset of the available command groups, ribbons just throw the kitchen sink at you.

Other than that it's a continuation of 2000, just like XP and Vista and 7 were, they're all of a muchness except each time they crash less, crashes these days are heatstroke rather than a lousy driver. All of them have been over-complicated and took too much learning to be comfortable with. The only reason Microsoft still has an effective monopoly is their stranglehold on PC and laptop builders and the threat that the only licensing level below 100% Microsoft is 0% Microsoft. I can't see the current position lasting many more years. We'll have alternatives in the shops one day and at that stage people will get a choice and Microsoft will discover the joys of competing.

What pros and cons do you foresee? Each time there's a new release people talk of it as a discontinuity and I don't see why.

I installed Beta on one of my PC's and played with it a little.

Didn't like it.

I think it will be a nice OS for tablets and mobile devices, but I don't plan to replace Win7 on my game rig, or my business PC.

I checked it out. No thank you.

It seems like they're desperate to get into the handheld market and have made previews available far too soon. The key to a new OS is to make it better and this looks like they're trying to copy something they don't understand. But I didn't read up on it too much. I'm not someone who rushes out to buy the latest thing, I like to let other people test it out for a significant time of trial and error.

koan;1401018 wrote: It seems like they're desperate to get into the handheld market and have made previews available far too soon. The key to a new OS is to make it better and this looks like they're trying to copy something they don't understand. But I didn't read up on it too much. I'm not someone who rushes out to buy the latest thing, I like to let other people test it out for a significant time of trial and error.


Interesting how nearly that exact phrase was made back when Windows first released.

LarsMac;1401024 wrote: Interesting how nearly that exact phrase was made back when Windows first released.


I spent a couple of years using Windows 2 at work - I'm not sure Windows 1 was ever seen in the wild, certainly not by me it wasn't. Trying to copy something they didn't understand was the least of Microsoft's sins.