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Originally Posted by Sven Johannsen
I'm assuming you have Macs, iPads or iPhones in the house. Hate to think you based your dismissal on 5 minutes of play with a beta OS against an OS you've never used.
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I spend all day working with Windows 7, the rest of the time I use iOS and OSX. I also seem to have touched a raw nerve if your snide remark about an OS I've never used is anything to go by.
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That said, if you are familiar with both OSX and iOS, wouldn't a merge of them seem relatively natural? Opposed to say a Windows Phonei-ish interface on a Windows OS, if you have no experience with Windows Phone? It is interesting that many of the current treatments of Win8 forget to mention that it reatins essentially everything you had with Windows 7, and adds the new desktop Metro interface and apps. Admittedly it does take a little getting used to, but so did Win3, 95, 7, as there were enough UI changes that needed a bit of learning. Sometimes a little efort will actually pay off.
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Except that in the case of iOS and OSX, the merge is more gradual. First time you log into Lion you get the familiar OSX look and feel and the ability to turn on iOS style features as you go. First time you log into Windows 8 you get full-on Metro. With tiles that look like you should single click but need double click and old favourites like alt-tab that no longer work.
Perhaps Microsoft want to get to convergence ahead of Apple this time which would be a mistake because they're throwing away the good work they did with Windows 7 after Vista.
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Oh, BTW, its Beta. Amazing how many people expect to load it and run it with no issues at all. I can tell you there is a significant change between the Developer Preview and the Consumer Preview. I expect changes when RC comes out. Not philosophy changes, but certainly usability tweaks.
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I don't expect it to be perfect but I also don't expect to be left stuck in IE with no hints about how to get out of it....