The problem is for people like me, who support dozens of users. Many of whom are using standard PCs and have learned to work with the Start button and Windows menu system and are going to have serious problems adapting to the new layout. They don't WANT to learn how to use Windows 8, they have work to do for clients who pay us money for something other than trying to figure out a new OS interface. And not all of them want to spend time learning how to use it when they were doing just fine with Windows XP or Windows 7. I cringe when I think of how many times they are going to ask me why the Start button (in 8.1) just dumps them to the tiled interface, which they don't understand and do not want to learn.
We managed to dodge the Vista bullet, but this... I'm just glad that I'll be leaving the job in a little over a year. If I can hold off a migration to Windows 8 during that time, I might make it out alive.
We managed to dodge the Vista bullet, but this... I'm just glad that I'll be leaving the job in a little over a year. If I can hold off a migration to Windows 8 during that time, I might make it out alive.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
