Re: Win8 & Nokia
Personally not a fan of windows 8, I think TIFKAM is an abomination which was sourced from the vile exrement of satan, at least on desktops. For tablet and phone it's actually quite nice.
The problem is Microsoft are trying a one size fits all solution when it really doesn't work. Tablets and phones do not work in the same way as desktops for home users, which don't act the same way as desktops for business users or servers.
If it did work we'd wind up seeing desktop android and ios, but we haven't becasue they don't work in that situation.
This is purely my opinion here but Microsoft have continuously shot themselves in the foot. Each time they come up with an innovative new UI feature, there's been a large portion of foks who hate it. Not everyone, but enough to be noticed. So what do they do? Shove it down your throat, and if you find a way to avoid it, they change things so they shove it down your throat in new innovative ways.
As an example, the ribbon. First it was just in word so what happened? A portion of their audience moved to openoffice. All is well, oh wait now it's in IE, people move to firefox and chome all is well. Oh wait no, now its in windows explorer and a key part of windows to boot... No way to avoid it now. And since so many applications run on the OS I can't really change OS.
Metro comes along and they're doing the exact same thing, except this time it's a big enough change for more people to actively consider moving OS, if not to Linux then to Mac.
As a note here, i'm a long time mac hater, I think they're overpriced underpowered toys which about as much credibility as a desktop interface as beans have credibility with a roast dinner. And yet I'd rather move to a mac than windows 8.
And final note, why is it windows 8? Windows 7 was really 6.1 (vista +) and windows 8 is just windows 6.2 (vista ++) it isn't a new OS, it's a massive service pack on windows 7 which awas a massive service pack on vista.
Microsoft have become a joke, and not a funny one either.
*Not Eadon*