Why TeknacomPC ltd. Uninstalled Windows 8 from its Test Workstation and will Never Reinstall!By: Michael Paul Talev
TeknacomPC ltd. a Microsoft Partner was a tiny part of the testing team on Windows 8 when it was still in Beta meaning pre-release to companies and the public. We here at TeknacomPC ltd. kept waiting for the final fix to make it user and business friendly though the fix never arrived!
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that Windows 8 is the worst computing experience We’ve ever had. As a desktop operating system, it’s annoying, frustrating, irritating, and baffling to use. I’ve tried on many occasions to explain exactly why it’s so awful to use day-to-day, and most of the time, smoke starts pouring out of my ears. I thought it would be better to get down exactly what the issues are and why you should avoid it.
What is even worse that Microsoft Employees are calling Windows 8 "The New Vista" Which as we all know in the IT industry Vista was a complete failure in which Microsoft saved itself in the operating system arena with Windows 7.
http://news.yahoo.com/microsoft-employees-reportedly-call-windows-8-vista-175427951.html
What it comes down to is this: Windows 8 is a tax on your brain. That dealing with it, day in, day out adds to your world being slightly worse in a dozen different but slightly irritating ways.
This isn’t an exhaustive list, but it is an exhausting list of reasons why we at TeknacomPC ltd. will never touch Windows 8 again here at our offices. We not alone: software to hardware developers and business users world wide have declared Windows 8 a catastrophe.
We have seen this type of Operating System before Windows 8 was even on the design board , it was called Lenovo Tiles that looks and feels very similar to Windows 8!
AOLs 1996 Attempt at a Operating System:
We will first give you reasons why many consumers have informed us everyone should stay away from it:
Windows 8 is really meant for tablets!
Windows 8 brings a new kind of computing design to the desktop. Once called Metro (until Microsoft realized that Metro is also the name of a German supermarket), it’s a design motif that’s meant to be appropriate across tablets, mobile phones, the desktop, and eventually, televisions. To be fair to Microsoft, Metro is a decent way of poking at your computer with a finger. But when you have the flexibility and precision of a mouse, it makes no sense. In Metro Most of your screen is taken up with white space. Text is bigger, the buttons are bigger, the borders are bigger. There’s less information, more wastage. It’s a complete mess.
The treatment of the desktop as an app is an out and out disaster!
The Metro interface is Windows 8. The desktop that you’re used to is also there, but it’s built as a separate app. Think of it this way: Metro is the shell. The desktop is an app within that shell. If you want to start Steam, you’ll want to launch the Desktop app, and then launch Steam.
This is insanity. This is Windows 8.
Window management is a pain in the rear!
Metro apps don’t have any window controls. If you want to swap between apps, you have to make a convoluted mouse gesture - move the mouse to the top left of the screen, and then down to select the window. You can’t minimize the app, and there’s no on-screen preview of what’s running to help you quickly switch between programs.
You can pick up windows and shunt them, say, to a second screen, which initially feels relatively useful. But I’ve discovered more than anything that you spend more time fiddling with their arrangement than actually doing anything useful with them.
Switching between Metro apps is a complete farce
I can’t get over how Microsoft have managed to break one of the basic functions of a GUI - swapping between running programs. Metro programs have no window controls and take up the entire screen. Therefore, there’s no easy way to switch between them using on-screen controls. You have to engage in unfamiliar mouse movements to swap between them.
Core apps that offer basic OS functionality are Metro only. And they’re awful
There are certain things that you do with your PC every day that should form the basis of the operating system. Email. Instant Message. Calendars. Media Playing. All of these functions in Windows 8 are carried out through Metro apps, and they are universally awful. There are no desktop apps included that do a similar job.
The email app is horrendous. It is the worst email client I have ever used. It’s a full-screen Metro abomination that hides or is missing basic and vital functionality (search, column sorting, filtering). It’s full-screen, but only shows a small sample of your messages - so the screen real-estate is massively wasted. If you have multiple email accounts, there’s no combined inbox view. It’s slow to check and sync your email - unless you force a manual refresh. And the first time you use it, you will struggle to find the ‘send email’ button. Pro-tip - it’s the (+) in the top right.
The messages app is bafflingly terrible
The instant message app is near unusable for day-to-day work or play. It’s a full-screen Metro app, so it takes up all your screen when all it needs to do is appear in a small box. There’s no combined contact view - if you want to start messaging people, have to enter a separate app (the people app), and select message from within that. It currently only supports MSN and Facebook messages - so you’ll still have to run a Google Chat or IRC client separately. But because it tries to combine message accounts, you’ll often discover that friends will receive messages over different accounts, at the same time. I’ve had situations where my friend is receiving the same message on Facebook and MSN at the very same time. Other times, the app has refused to let me even enter a message into the box. It’s so utterly and intensely ludicrous I hate it’s very guts.
The Calendar is unworkable
I’ve given up entirely on the calendar, because it’s terrible. Changing to a week or day view requires a right click to make the control interface appear. I can’t work out how to edit an appointment, nor can I work out how to delete an appointment. There’s no way to show events from just one calendar. I think it may well be easier to alter my own birthday than to edit when it’s currently set for in the Windows 8 calendar. I really want to be making this up.
The video and music players are abysmal
The default Windows media player is a full-screen Metro abomination. It’s slow, and the interface is clunky, and you’ll struggle to find and play the files you want. Worse, though, is that it struggles with complicated storage options. All of my music and video is stored on a Network Attached Storage device - but the Windows Video and Music players can’t seem to index those files. If I want to play something, you have to work through the folder structure using Metro’s awful internal file browser.
Internet Explorer just needs to stop
There are two versions of Internet Explorer, both bad. The first is the Metro browser, and it’s essentially unusable on a desktop which hides basic controls light refresh, the browser bar, the back button and everything else you use on a day-to-day basis behind a right click. The Metro browser is the default - so any Twitter links you click until you can turn it off, will be opened in the Metro browser.
The Desktop app version of IE isn’t necessarily terrible - it just occasionally takes over your default browser when you’re not looking. Despite me regularly returning the default browser to Chrome, IE still decides it wants to be the default option for opening links sent by IM, and the option to change it is greyed out.
It seems have inspired other developers to lose their mind
Google Chrome has now silently updated to integrate better with Windows 8. Now, when it’s started from the Start Menu, it opens up an entire full-screen window, and it can only be displayed in that full-screen window. The only route to prevent that happening is to install a shortcut to the app on your taskbar. When it’s started from the taskbar, it behaves as you’d expect.
Desktop windows have got more complicated and less useful
The ribbon from Microsoft’s office products is now integrated into the Windows interface. For instance, in the file manager, rather than the ‘view’ menu being neatly arranged into vertical options, if you click view on a window it displays a ribbon of all the options in the view menu with randomly placed icons next to each-other.
The Charms bar is bafflingly unusable
The charms bar appears when you hover your mouse in the top right or bottom right corner of your screen. It's meant to help you with basic but universal tasks. Like search, or sharing. But the search function rarely finds what you want - it will only search within Metro apps, and you have to specify the app you want to search in separately. The share button only works in Metro apps, as well - you can’t share from within any desktop apps. So it's entirely pointless.
It’s harder than ever to turn the sodding thing off
It took me nearly half an hour to work out how to turn off my PC. So: here’s exactly how you do it: You move your mouse to the bottom right or top right of your screen. You then click on options. You then click on power, and then finally, you click on the Shutdown option.
Now we will give you reasons why TeknacomPC ltd. advises you to stay away from Windows 8!
Compatibility with Current Software and Hardware:
There are random and delightful bugs and compatibility issues
Yes, there are bugs in Windows 8. And yes, they’ll probably be ironed out as development continues. But some of the bugs I’ve encountered as so weird as to suggest my entire PC has been traumatized. I can’t play full-screen video on a second monitor in Chrome. There are no drivers available for the bluetooth chipset on my motherboard. Unity games, like the brilliant Brickforce, don’t work. It goes on, and on, and on.
Windows 8 is not Made For Productivity or Businesses:
The bottom line is if you want to do anything productive in Windows 8, forget it.
We can only guess that its primary goal is social networking, Internet news, photo management and other social media activity. Folks, a good user interface design does not force you into a new way of operating. It’s frustrating and non-intuitive. Microsoft you blew it big time! What do you expect when they Microsoft try to cram a phones operating system into a computer or laptop?
The sad thing is that most of the large computer manufactures (Dell, HP & Toshiba) were leading customers into buying Windows 8 computers by offering a much lower price than a comparable Windows 7 system. If you want to avoid a lot of frustration, go for the Window 7 option and if they don’t offer Windows 7, go elsewhere. Now they have reverted to selling their machines with Windows 7 Pro 64 by default due to all the issues and backlash from the world.
Several Problems that after Repair and Update Re-Appear!
Ready for constant downtime, fixes and cost?
After dealing with super flaky network crashes and Windows Updates that lock up the computer and those stupid tiles that have no place on a laptop without a touch screen (or probably even with a touchscreen), We finally used a recovery partition and did a factory restore. we fought a valiant battle with Windows 8 and the final straw was yet another goofed up update this morning.
The laptop apparently downloaded new updates some time this morning and decided to reboot itself while sitting idle. When it came back up, it went right into a recovery mode where it went into a loop of attempting to repair itself and failing. We finally got back into Windows 8 but only after “refreshing the system” which uninstalled almost every program I had on the computer. This kind of crap is unheard of. We had Windows ME, which stunk, but it never did anything like that.
Then, there was the struggle to even reboot into recovery. Windows 8 had hijacked the HP Recovery Manager. We would try to run the program and it would boot into Windows Recovery Manager instead. We finally had to make the Recovery partition the only active partition and reboot with my fingers crossed and that did finally work.
When its own Creators insult Windows 8 by calling it Windows Vista!
Would you Buy a product if its creators hated it?
Yes it's so bad even the developers and employees at Microsoft poke Windows 8 with Jokes!
http://news.yahoo.com/microsoft-employees-reportedly-call-windows-8-vista-175427951.html
Buy Windows 8 Now have limited program and hardware support and Upgrade Shortly?
With small support from hardware and software developers, business professionals then the consumers it will be extinct within a few years as Windows ME and Vista did.
Windows 9 will be out in a year or two to replace the mistakes Microsoft created with Windows 8 just as Windows 7 replaced Vista!
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