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Old 20-11-2012, 07:22 PM
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Interesting evaluation of Windows 8 usability: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/windows-8.html
Hmmm don't seem to be having any of these problems and see most of this report as complete nonsense. There is nothing you can do on win7 that cannot be done in win8. As for the steep learning curve, it took 2 days for me to be very comfortable with the platform both on PC and Tablet, who were they using to test win 8, Mac OS users???. If you think about this win 8 is available on PC, tablet and phone, how much will that shorten the learning curve? You only have to deal with a single OS not 2 or 3 and its just windows 7 without a start button that's all. Multiple windows can easily be run in win8 (just like win 7) see my post below (#62). The charms cannot be forgotten as you have to use them to turn the machine off, pretty hard to overlook that. As for the rest of the rest such as the tiles, that's just been presented in a way to make it look confusing. Most tiles have a small title telling you what they are e.g. desktop and those that don't simply require you to place the cursor on it which will name the tile and give you options besides the fact that you also choose which tiles are displayed and should know what they do. As for the buttons being flat well analog is dead in just about every way but I guess old habits die hard for some. If a flat icon says power off guess what that means, oh no wait it's not 3D .
Mark

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