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Originally Posted by kaplin42
It's not really counter-intuitive. Swiping left from right to switch between programs, not that hard of a concept to grasp.
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"Swiping" at all, when you have a regular mouse rather than a touchpad or touchscreen, is ABSOLUTELY counter-intuitive.
Kudos to Microsoft for doing what Apple and Google are doing - trying to create a ubiquitous experience across all Windows devices.
The problem is that Microsoft has ZERO control over PC hardware on the market, unlike Apple and Google, who tightly control not only tablet and smartphone devices, but also their desktop computing devices.
The standard PC out there is not a tablet or touchpad and Windows 8 is not built for it. It will get there with time. Microsoft is more just a victim of bad timing. Great idea but a little too soon.
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Originally Posted by kaplin42
You're right not all change is good, but no change can be good if one isn't willing to invest at least a small amount of effort in learning what the change was and how to use it. Quite frankly, Win 8 is fine, it's not even complicated to use if you just take 5 minutes to figure out instead of wanting to be spoon fed everything. Microsoft could have done a lot better on the delivery, and maybe a couple of actual built in tutorials, but for the most part, the issue does not land at the operating systems feet. It is a solid, stable, and remarkably fast OS.
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You do realize that there's a large (very large, in fact) contingent of PC buyers out there that are functionally illiterate when it comes to computer and have no choice but to use Windows 8 because that's what is being shipped, right?
Some people - a lot of people - NEED to be spoon fed. They're not everyday power users like we are.