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Windows 8 Kills Another Product Line (Score: 1, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-05-22 13:14 (#1VF)

It's working its hardest to kill off Windows PCs, and phones, and now tablet hybrids.

Seriously, I'm using Win8 right now and I still hate it. First I thought that the pervasive ugliness was because I had installed ClassicShell and somehow Explorer had reverted to something basic.

But no, even on a virgin installation of Win8 all the windows are as primitive and ugly as possible. They resemble nothing so much as the Windows 1.x I played with years ago, squared corners with no style at all, as if someone were assigned to write a GUI using only Turtle Basic. Just ugly ugly design as far as the eye can see, and that's WITHOUT getting into the horror of the start screen.

Re: Windows 8 Kills Another Product Line (Score: 2, Interesting)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-05-22 13:43 (#1VH)

I've never used Win 8.1, and am trying hard to keep it that way. But I thought people mostly agreed the tablet was the one form factor for which that terrible interface actually made sense?

Re: Windows 8 Kills Another Product Line (Score: 1)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-05-22 13:49 (#1VK)

Nah, as far as I know people say it works well on Windows Phone, so-so on tablets, and somewhat usable on touchscreen laptops. Of course there are a few champions (shills?) who seem to love it.

FYI ClassicShell et al. don't really cure everything (ugly windows, random "charms" popups), so keep on avoiding it if you can.

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