Actually it does, he talking about 8.1 update 1
Ah, okay, so they re-patched their 8.1 Patch to 8.1.1 then... At least something.
btw, I'm not really against offering new GUI conventions (even if they break the old ones) - BUT they have to be optional.
Had MicroSoft offered to make a simple choice to use either Win2000 - XP - Aero - Metro GUI, they would have saved themselves from alot of trouble.
But it seems they preferred to go the Office Ribbons route "Fail to find even the most-used and basic functions!!".
On a positive note, all that re-introduced the users back to the Windows Keyboard shortcuts and the console
(which are quicker in producing results than their failed Metro GUI or Ribbons UI any day)
Lol... That's funny. When I set up someone on a W8 box (heh - w8 box...), they couldn't figure out how to close a picture they opened. I couldn't, either, so that started the first of many lessons on keyboard shortcuts to use the damned thing for simple tasks. I eventually learned the GUI was on the right-hand side due to
. There's no valid reason to do that -- it's unintuitive and that's not a perspective brought on by "resistance to change." Every time something's new and sucks, if you don't like it - you're just "resisting change," like you're the Obsolete Man in a world clearly too sophisticated for his worn presence.
I'm convinced MS produces a difficult-to-use, bloated-seeming OS so they can double-up on revenue by then selling the poor enthusiast a W7 license for when they inevitably want to downgrade. By the time W9 is pushed, they'll then buy the latest version since there own is clearly becoming out of date - behind by two releases! With an S3, I can skip the S4, but an S5? Fuck me - I don't want people thinking I'm the only guy in town with an outhouse! It's about as perfect a scheme as possible.
Unintuitive design has been pissing me off a good bit, lately, and I think touch screens are probably the pinnacle of bad design. They've been around for decades, but now, in 2015, I still mistype things on my cell phone which I never would on a keyboard and the audio recognition is still somehow so bad that has me asking my mom if she wants to mount dick when I say Mt Gox. Even the giant numbers in the "dial" window, I have trouble using. When I need to get into the MSL menu, if I mis-type it twice, it completely reboots the phone just to be an asshole. The damned thing's slow as molasses, too. Shortcuts? Good luck doodling them. -Then things suddenly freeze up for no discernible reason, so I'm totally sympathetic to resistance to change when almost every hardware and software designer on the planet gives you reason to be. Let me tell you the perfect cell phone design: you use WiDi to project your screen onto a computer monitor, use WiFi to use a PC through VNC, then use BT to connect a keyboard and mouse. Perfect. Damn cell phones and punk-ass kids who practically force them on us... and 3D came and went AGAIN, but not before pushing increased costs on EVERYTHING for something which adds zero value... can't wait for the fifty years to pass so I can kick their asses "due to Alzheimer's"....
