Oh, I most definitely agree with you that Win8 wins and the future lies in tiles as opposed to Windows. And that windows (as opposed to Windows) are for the birds. Always have been, always will be. I'm not a command line geek by any stretch of the mind, but some sessions online/offline I'll run nearly everything through the command line and/or use the Run box just to have the luxury of not dealing with the taskbar and switching windows and pointing and clicking with the fucking mouse or the trackpad equivalent (the worst part of the whole Windows experience is the mouse/trackpad equivalent, by far, and unfortunately it's a trait Win shares with the Mac) and I have to say it's pretty liberating, since it's the *only* way to get out of the basically fucked-in-the-head GUI of most later versions of Windows. And I get to feel geeky for a time, for as long as I'm at it. Simple laziness keeps me from doing things that way on the tower or my laptop more often.
So yeah, I'm looking forward to Win8 features being much more widely adapted. I'm not a huge fan of touchscreen typing (physical keyboard ftw, though they have their problems, too) but I am in favor of touch functionality in general. I've been lucky enough to play with a Win7 phone or two (with the Metro tiles, same as Win8, except MS has dropped the word "Metro" in describing what is on the PC) and it is, as I said when I wrote my Android and my co-worker's Win phone up on my blog, a dream to deal with compared to Android's clunky insensitive touch screens with their apps buried in all these stupid drawers and the usual Windows experience itself. But I think it will be 2-3 years down the road before the general public widely adapts Win8 features not only in Windows, but enough to start demanding or even expecting them cross-platform (in Mac, Android, wherever) so until you get over public recalcitrance (which is almost unbelievably alive and well) we're probably going to be stuck using Win8 itself or an older Win/Android/Mac version of something or another that gets you online for quite some time.
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Re: *clears throat*
Date: 2012-10-02 02:49 am (UTC)So yeah, I'm looking forward to Win8 features being much more widely adapted. I'm not a huge fan of touchscreen typing (physical keyboard ftw, though they have their problems, too) but I am in favor of touch functionality in general. I've been lucky enough to play with a Win7 phone or two (with the Metro tiles, same as Win8, except MS has dropped the word "Metro" in describing what is on the PC) and it is, as I said when I wrote my Android and my co-worker's Win phone up on my blog, a dream to deal with compared to Android's clunky insensitive touch screens with their apps buried in all these stupid drawers and the usual Windows experience itself. But I think it will be 2-3 years down the road before the general public widely adapts Win8 features not only in Windows, but enough to start demanding or even expecting them cross-platform (in Mac, Android, wherever) so until you get over public recalcitrance (which is almost unbelievably alive and well) we're probably going to be stuck using Win8 itself or an older Win/Android/Mac version of something or another that gets you online for quite some time.