by Suff » 20 Dec 2012, 16:56
That depends Aggers, I use XP, Windows7 and Windows8 on a daily basis. I can tell you that XP is significantly annoying to use now, no desktop peek on stacked icons, no new folder button on the explorer, file copy paste is torturous in comparison.
Windows8 is irritating in the whole "Interface that used to be called metro" issue, but actually it's so much faster and more responsive than W7 that I like it.
Microsoft had to move on from Windows XP. They introduced interface changes in the OS which drove a whole raft of hardware changes by the manufacturers which would have been much slower to appear. Machines you buy, off the shelf, today, are five times more powerful (overall), than they were in 2007 when Vista shipped. This hardware power is now being felt with Windows8 which requires less hardware to run. Gaining a much needed boost for the average user.
To be honest Microsoft does not have a lot of choice. Vista arrived (3 years late to the community), to users decrying that Microsoft was too slow, Look at Apple, Look at google, Look at Linux (None of whom have 1billion of any system shipped), they all claimed. Then Windows7 arrives and it's "too little too late". Then Windows8 arrives and it's "too soon and too much"
It's a farce but it is what it is. Microsoft, in the last 11 years has had to deal with the mobile revolution, web applications, pervasive web which reaches right into your home, touch driven devices as standard and a whole plethora of other changes.
They don't do so bad. But most people want change and "more". The rest of us either suffer or enjoy the ride. Depending on our own personal tastes...
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