Sunday, April 29, 2012

Windows 8: It's Just As Crappy As They Say It Is

Let me say, to start, that the Metro user interface (UI) introduced in Windows 8 was not designed for computer users like me.

It's clearly and primarily an interface for consuming digital material--Web pages, weather reports, images, videos, games, merchandise. Secondarily, it encourages short, text-message-style communication and hopes to pull consumers into its particular brand of file sharing and cloud computing. But the Metro UI is piss-poor for producing digital material--creating Web pages, writing essays, editing video/photographs, recording audio, and so on....

To read the remainder of this article, please go to the new home for the Crappy Software blog:

http://crappysoftware.tvcrit.com/?p=16

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