Why are you not excited about Windows 8?

[Macman45]

If you think Lion is a "mess" you must never have had to deal with Vista in a corporate environment.

How true....Vista was such a turkey....probably worse than Windows 2K and that was bad. If MS retain GB's of legacy code (and they will) as good as windows 8 COULD have been, it will be once again crippled.

Like I said, I have no Windows boxes anymore, so will wait until friends upgrade and take a look then.

 

[MorphingDragon]

Interesting, where is Lion used in the corporate word? Please explain...

Windows isn't in the word Corporate either.

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I'm not looking forward to it, I just don't care.

Personally, windows is only a gateway to whatever Application I'm using, be that games, Visual Studio, Maya, Photoshop, Unity etc.

However I'm really going to loathe Windows 8 release in the IT sector. Lazy arse developers still won't have ported their ancient software to 64-bit causing *****torms. Microsoft's next round of arbitrary MSSQL, MS Server, Exchange, Office releases pushing up prices because of software incompatibilities. It's actually gotten to the point where I've started calling .Net developers and Windows only IT shops economically irresponsible to their clients.

If you're an IT guy and reading this, be a God to your clients wallets and change to a RedHat workflow. With the release of RHEV 3 its possible to be a completely Linux backend and still have a managed VM environment that rivals VMWare.

 

[Apple OC]

I am not excited about it because I don't use windows ... the few times I use it for work ... windows 7 gets the task done ... even if I have to reboot it.

 

[roadbloc]

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http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars/19#conclusion

I'm sure a lot of average users who just used Vista for Office and Facebook thought it was okay as well.

 

[Tsuchiya]

I don't get excited about new OS's, Windows or otherwise...

I am however, curious to see how it runs as a tablet OS.

 

[Invincibilizer]

Super excited, wondering if Windows 8 can actually dethrone windows 7 for best OS system out there, I doubt it but Microsoft always produces magic so its hard to tell.

 

[Zwhaler]

Why am I not excited? Because I moved on from Windows years ago. Glad I did. Windows Vista was.... Vista. Windows 7 felt like what Vista should have been, and now they're going to change everything so much that I would have to basically re learn how to use the new UI. No thanks, I'd rather have Snow Leopard.