“Microsoft’s Windows 8 Consumer Preview was made available to download yesterday, giving everyone a chance to experience the company’s most revolutionary change in user interface since Windows 95,” Vlad Savov reports for The Verge.
“While the Consumer Preview software remains at the beta stage, its central concepts have now been fleshed out, so we thought this would be a fitting time to compare them against Apple’s iPad, the incumbent leader in the tablet space [in which] Microsoft is seeking to become a player,” Savov reports. “iOS 5 and Windows 8 share a few similarities, but the user experience is fundamentally different and informed by different interaction metaphors.”
Savov reports, “You can see those detailed in the video below, and if you care to learn more about what else has changed under the Windows hood with version 8, feel free to peruse our comprehensive preview of the Consumer Preview.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Familiarity breeds contempt – and, it seems, bias. We’ll wait to compare the shipping Windows 8 on shipping hardware versus what it will attempt to compete against: iOS 6 on the next-gen iPad.
This cracked me up. He says something on the windows 8 tablet was more intuitive and better than the iPad. When the iPad had something more intuitive, he still liked windows 8 one for some reason. When the wondows 8 one could simply not do anything, it just “wasn’t a deal breaker”
It’s like looking at some sad, ugly baby in a pram and trying to think of non-committal nice things to say to the poor deluded mother. “Ooh, what lovely toes…”
Didn’t like the look of it at all, especially when all those Microsoft-Gestapo question-boxes suddenly appeared! “Where are your papers?” “Are you Registered?” Click here… Agree to this, Agree to that…NOW! Come with me, you are under arrest.
What a nightmare interface. Bland and no sense of order or promised functionality.
I sat down with my 5 yr old niece and my 3 yr old nephew a couple of weeks ago to read a story on my iPad and within a minute they were swiping, opening apps and using the iPad like seasoned pros. The mess that is Windows 8 tablet would have those same children turning away in confusion and disinterest in milliseconds. What a useless piece of silicon scrap.
Btw, what the hell is a Charms Bar???? Come on, are you trying to appeal to prepubescent Mylie Cyrus fans??
Sad effort over all…..
What happens if you hold the Windows 8 tablet in portrait mode? This is the way I prefer to hold it for reading books and websites.
Oh sweet lord, that’s the first time I’ve seen Windows 8 in action. If a disaster married a catastrophe, the Metro UI would be their offspring.
Horrible and messy interface. Ugly icons, too colorful XPish… total clueless… windows in the left… taskbar in the right.
Ridiculous search… contextual menu? Save the damn image?
Waste of space… No consistency.
Pinch, similar gestures…
MS… Miserable and Shameless.
FY and die!
I like that i could have mail on one side and then a webpage up. Simply because i have found that sometimes i am reading an email and it is telling me how to do something and i switch back and forth.
However i would not touch that big book of a tablet for anything. The thing is that interface is simmlar to whats on windows phones now and they have not taken off by any means so why does MS think on a tablet it will be any better? I find it confusing all the different color tiles some big some smaller and its like what is the purpose of them all. The ipad and IOS period is for anyone who has never used one to the advanced user. WIN 8 tablet will not apeal to non geeks.
4 fingers up brings the multitasking dumby. Do your research.
I thought it looked pretty nice. They are at least trying to play fair by not infringing a load of apple patents.
The deal breaker will be hardware, just like on the PC. If someone makes a tablet as well build and thin as the iPad with that software on it it could be a real contender. Microsofts trouble is that there isn’t a hardware company that can do this. And unlike in the PC world they are coming from being, not in front.
I was looking forward to this video ’cause I think the windows 8/windows phone UI is pretty neat (or at least has a lot of potential). I even thought (before watching the video), maybe I’ll get a smaller W8 tablet to play with (there’s no way I’m replacing my iPhone). However, this review is so ridiculously biased it was distracting. There are only two possibilities, this reviewer is either being paid by Microsoft, or he’s a ridiculously blind anti-apple and/or windows fan. It’s actually funny to watch him fumble around on the W8tab while saying “it’s not perfect” and “amazing”. While he is able to use the iPad flawlessly while saying its not intuitive to use! How is closing your fingers not an intuitive way to close an app, and I suppose the W8tab solution of swiping from the top is.. what a joke! And to top off the hilarity tank, he tries to use iPad gestures to save a pic on the W8tab, multiple times, and of course it doesn’t work. And he says something to the effect of, ‘I guess it needs improvement, but it’s still great’. I’m actually glad I watched it now, but not for the reason I expected, but for the comedy.
The only swipe to be used is on the table (not the tablet) to swipe the tablet from the table into the trash. It can be done from left to right or right to left (depending where the trashcan is…) with 1, 2, 3, 4 fingers, the whole hand or the elbow. Neat…
I like how he skipped going to iOS multi-task tray with a four finger up gesture.
iOS has swipe, Windows only uses Ass-Wipe
where’s the windows “folders”? what a mess. just ugly live widgets. kkkkkkkk