“…nudges a sock puppet through the blackened weeds. In the high castle, a bald man sighs deeply.”

Brilliant and beautiful.

chrish1961 specifically said “display” not anti-glare film.

I don’t see why anyone would want a windows
phone !! I know a person who has one ,
man is it ugly !!!!!

All they’ve ever done is bury their head in the sand over the security issues. Put their hands over their ears about the infringement issues. And covered their mouths with lawyers over monopoly issues. I don’t expect them to respond responsibly in any shape or form this time.

Apple equated with communism? BZZZZZT! FAIL! The political ignorance these days is DIRE.

Setting aside the garbage and obsession with anti-glare screens (which as an imaging professional is a complaint for which I have no sympathy)…

Apple Requires Competition.

With worthless Microsoft out-of-the-way, maybe Apple will actually get some competition, as opposed to parasitism. Good riddance Microsoft. You’ve had your 1,000,000,000 second chances. Die already. Get OUT of the way of the future!

W8 breaks just about every UI design rule you can think of – I’m all for simplification but to dumb down an interface to the degree found in W8 makes me wonder if the designers have thought any of this through at all. The start screen is a gaudy infantile childish landscape of the most basic kind and whoever thought up the term “Charms Bar” needs taking out the back and given a straight choice of death by firing squad or strangulation by hanging…

An OS should be intuitive enough to be used by Grandma, sophisticated enough to be used by geeks & techies and capable enough to be of real use to Joe Public. It should enable the user to do what they need to do in as intuitive a way as possible but W8 has managed to annoy / confuse / distract / confound in every way possible to the point where there are forums showing how the Start screen can be avoided, how the Start button can be re-introduced, how you can boot into W7 etc etc.
As a Mac user all of this is entirely alien to my way of thinking and my experience with OSX.

It’s no good either for M$ fans to say that after a certain time you can learn all the new tricks of W8 – a good GUI should make plain how to do the basics straight away while allowing users to discover more functionality as they move forward.

Obviously the biggest killer for W8 was to make this the de-facto UI for ALL classes of device. This wouldn’t have been such a bad idea if W8 actually recognised what device it was running on and adapted itself to suit its host environment but as far as I can tell this has not been done. Hint to M$ – phones / tablets / desktops are DIFFERENT beasties! They are used differently and they need different capabilities. Simple enough to understand I would have thought?

Additionally it must have been obvious to M$ that the W7 desktop functionality needed to remain available since real people will still need folders and documents and multiple resizable windows open but when they found that this did not translate well to a touch interface or they did not have the time to adapt it they threw it in as an “app” and instantly created the potential for mass confusion.

Even if you have a touch screen are you really expected to move around with the mouse and every now and again touch the screen to navigate? Really? I wouldn’t want to work that way, I positively hate fingermarks all over my screen…

So where do M$ go from here? If they persist with W8 they will have to re-design a large portion of it to better integrate the desktop environment. If they make the W7 experience better suited to touch everyone will need to upgrade to a touch screen to gain the benefits. If they go the whole hog with W8 and do away with the W7 environment they have a hell of a lot of code to write since this will impact on all of the existing apps that expect to run in W7.

At the end of the day M$ have managed to annoy a whole cross section of their own user base, mosly put off potential new customers and switchers and this does’t even begin to consider what damage they may have done by competing with their own OEM partners. This is idiocy on a truly grand scale – it will be interesting to see how M$ respond to problems entirely of their own making.

Upgrading to Windows 8

Just a suggestion. It’s more in the flavor of Hunter S. Thompson that way.:-)

Excuse me while I iCal your ass…
Oh no wait, I don’t need to!
We’ve already seen what an “Apple Dominated” world looks like.
Despite your doom and gloom handwringing, you can buy any MP3 player you like from simple to baroque. And conversely, you can source your iPod’s music from anywhere you want.
Was this the trajectory of WMA?

CarMax did make the switch to 8 and the mechanics are having issues with the system, just entering work orders ……

http://applefanboy.com/2012/11/20/surface-with-windows-8-the-el-camino-in-the-post-pc-era/

You guys are full of glee at the demise of Microsoft, but I tell you, if you study history, the supporters of Communism, at the fall of imperial Russia, were equally gleeful at the coming of Communism. Apple is no different. It’s hell bent on just making money, and does not at all see it as a responsibility as a supplier of a growing OS that is needed not just teenyboppers to do their Facebook like’s – but also by working professionals, many of whom need anti-glare screens. Apple’s attitude of “if it’s not profitable, then we can’t please everyone” is fine for making $120billion cash, but it’s not good for the end users who sometimes are in a minority but need support for their working computer needs.

Many of you guys will live to regret this flogging of Microsoft, once you taste what an Apple-dominated world looks like.

Gates will start a startup called “VeXt” (a confused computer maker) and a movie studio utilizing equipment from VeXt called “Nixar”. Ballmer will buy VeXt and Gates will come back and fire Ballmer’s ass. Followed by a tweaking of some products, people (espeacially Bloggers) will then start comparing MS to what Apple was when Steve Jobs came back to Apple. And the rest will be opposite to Apples’ history.

Perhaps you’ve forgotten where you left the Mac marketing guy, find him apple, wake him up, dust him off and ask him to SELL.

with Macs only 5% of world marketshare and more and more realizing win 8 is a turd… strike!