Windows 8 - is it just me.....?

Okay, I tried out the Developer Preview and it seemed like it was geared more toward phones or touchpads.
Today I installed the Consumer Preview. I am so not impressed. Is it just me?
Look, I admit to being the dumbest man on earth, so could anyone who has tried this new O.S. please enlighten me as to any merits it has?

 

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I wonder why people still would get excited about OSs.... Seriously, we have had enough of them and they finally do what they are supposed to, no need to get a hard on for them...

 

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Windows 8 completely diverges from its Start Menu application launcher format which has been around more than 2 decades. It's very very different. So...they might not do what they're supposed to anymore.

 

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Turgidity has nothing to do with it!
I build, maintain and repair computers as a vocation. Have been since the early 80's (started in the military).
Install Win 8 preview - check it out. The let me know what it is supposed to do, and more to the point - does it?
The dumbest man on earth thinks this is the "facebook" of operating systems!

 

I haven't tried it yet, but I think it makes sense for MS to focus their attention on a phone and tablet friendly OS, since that's what's hot right now. It probably kills them that Android and Apple are the main players, and they are a distant third.

Desktop and laptop computers are pretty much the same as they were in 2009 when 7 came out, so there really aren't any new capabilities to address. I imagine that 8 will be just 7 with a slightly different look for desktop and laptops, but mostly a new phone and tablet OS.

 

This growing tendency to take mobile device UI design elements and slap them on top of a desktop OS is the bane of my existence.

 

Well, I am aging, and I don't want to try or learn anything new. So if it stays as it was instead of teaching me a completely new kind of shit, I am good with it...

Or at least it should be very intuitive...

 

I think the Metro UI (live tiles and such) are unnecessary on a desktop. Give us the traditional Windows look and feel we're used to on the PC, let the tablets and phones use Metro. Yes, the traditional desktop is still there, but it takes an extra step to get to it. If the Metro UI can be disabled, I'd turn it off instantly. I never liked it since when they announced Windows 8 a year or so ago.

 

How does this happen?

 

After a little time these are my thoughts...

Windows 7 probably will end up being another Vista. However, behind the scenes important steps are being taken to insure Windows future. Finally programmers are consolidating libraries (such as rendering libs and query libs) and making system libraries equally accessible by any language

.NET ended up as a nightmare which many predicted it would, your code essentially had to be managed C++, VB, or C# to work correctly and arguably only the last two worked well. Writing C++, half of the information wasn't accessible via WINAPI and you were forced to move over to WMI. WMI would take dozens of lines of code to get even 1 variable in C++. You could also make an argument that there was essentially NO SUPPORT for C programmers at all! Windows apparently has decided it doesn't need C programmers, I'm hesitant to say they're probably right...no one who cares about efficient processing is using Windows anyways. Rendering libraries were split such that the MS Programmers (Office, Excel etc..) used almost an entirely different rendering library than the managed applications with no effective SDK.

That's all been a bit of a rant. The bottom line is this...
If Microsoft actually executes what they've been trying to do for nearly a decade (and it seems this Windows 8 releases show promise), there will be a LOT of happy programmers. Happy programmers means better applications which is good for Microsoft at this point since most competent developers I know won't develop for it unless they have to.

 

Its not only you, I have this very same issue.

 

Unity, then metro - i smell a pile-up

 

I'm wondering what you mean by windows 7 being another windows vista? Windows 7 has had high praise and been very sucessful where vista was a failer. What compairison are you making here?