Why did Windows 8 fail?
it didn't, it's was a cashgrab new ui for windows 7
>>108353043no startmenu
>>108353092spbp
because boomers were too retarded to learn
>>108353092>>108353133This. My mother got a new PC, an upgrade from her old Windows XP one. She thought you had to press the restart button on the PC itself to get back to the start menu. Because of fast boot and an SSD, it took about 5 seconds to restart and get back there.
>>108353043using a touch screen tablet UI for a mouse and keyboard machine shows staggering levels of stupidity from Microslop
Doesn't Ubuntu still do similar shit?
Next Windows will be even bigger failure.
>>108353043PC OS designed for tablets. All the actual PC users hated the UI and hated how it ignored the OS's main use case.
>>108353288I think it's a dogshit GNOME problem in general, yes. It does basically do the same thing, fuckhuge full-screen menu showing you a few fuckhuge icons at a time.
>108353133you reject an OS with a horrible design change, you dont learn it like a good little poodle.boomers were right to tell Microsoft to fuck off.
>>108353043>WindowsWtf I thought that was GNOME
Because it was the most retarded idea ever and a complete mess.They scrambled to throw something together because Apple did a thing and didn't even stop to think that trying to unify the desktop and a tablet UI was insane.Especially since they didn't even have a widespread tablet userbase to begin with, but hey Apple did a thing so they had to copy them.Losing the start button was a big one too, people just didn't like that whatever the fuck the new thing is called as it replaced the familiar and clean thing with a bloated mess.I'm still using classic shell and the menu looks like it did before. No fucking ads, no weather reports or links to some news site, nothing but what previously was.I'm jumping on Linux when I put together my next system. It's becoming mainstream and looks to be user friendly enough with growing support of the wangblows programs I'll need.Windows is increasingly fucked and basically spyware at this point, so it can get fucked. The next AI version will be a completely broken gimmick designed to steal every single bit of your data to train more broken AI.
>>108353900Poor Steve. I can see why Metro seemed like a good idea at the time. It just so happened that tablets got nowhere whilst MS missed the boat on smartphones. It's hard for me to feel the same sympathy now with this Copilot crap.
>>108353043They fucked with the taskbar and start menu and made the UI garbage. Felt like a huge downgrade after Windows 7 in usability and looks.Sure for tablets it made sense but 99.99% of the people didn't use it on tablets.
>>108353043The UI just sucks, just look at that screenshot, looks like something designed for a console
>>108353436I can imagine the boomer frustration when they opened this and didn't know how to close it. Because you have to either do a stupid mouse gesture or press win button.
>>108354000Picrel is the updated Xbox 360 UI. you can see how they tried to unify the experience across different platforms.It failed because moving the mouse diagonally across the entire screen twice just to access settings is not fun. They could have made classic shell an option or just organised the layout better.
I think the new start menu idea is reasonable. The concept of relying on desktop shortcuts is a little outdated anyway. It was popular at a time when computers could barely run more than one program at a time. Nowadays people seldom have the desktop visible because many windows are open at once. Being able to press a key and see a full menu of programs onscreen is a reasonable addition.There isn't enough to visually differentiate the tiles because of the flat Metro icons, although the colours do help.
Simple. It tried to be a 2-in-1 OS for desktops and tablets, but ended up being pretty shit for both. Couldn't use it on a desktop without having to use the shitty touch UI, and couldn't use it on a tablet without having to go to the desktop with tiny buttons designed for a mouse cursor.It's funny though, that Windows 11 is somehow so much worse at just being a usable OS that it makes Windows 8 look actually very nice in comparison. At least Windows 8 wasn't vibe coded.
