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With Windows 8, Microsoft is offering an explosion of new that excites people like me but leaves many users confused. I've staked my career on explaining Microsoft's products, so Windows 8 has me rubbing my hands together with glee. For Microsoft's users, and for those who support Microsoft technologies at work, it's a bit less exciting. OK, maybe a lot less.
Windows 8 is a rejection of everything Microsoft has ever done with Windows in the past. In the old days, the software giant would try to downsize Windows by putting its well-understood user interface in other, more mobile, systems, such as Windows CE, Pocket PC, and Windows Mobile. These efforts were disastrous, as was the assumption that a familiar UI would cause users to adopt a new platform en masse and without question.
With Windows 8, the roles are reversed. Here, Microsoft is taking a user interface designed for mobile devices and shoehorning it into its traditional Windows products. But either because it's pressed for time or simply lacks conviction in this new UI, Microsoft is also hedging its bets. So Windows 8 includes both this new UI and the old Windows desktop, side-by-side. It's not one OS, it's two.
After testing the Windows 8 Consumer Preview for several weeks on a variety of PC and device types, my conclusion is unavoidable: Most users will simply pick one environment and stick with that. Or more fairly, the decision will be made for them based on the type of machine they use.
Those of us who use traditional PCs - -which today is roughly described as "everybody" -- will stick primarily to the desktop environment, with its amazing application availability, advanced multitasking, support for large displays, and the like. Because of the way Windows 8 is designed, these users will, however, need to deal with the Metro environment whether they want to or not: Key system-level features such as the new Start experience, the new Back experience, the new Switcher task-switching interface, the Charms bar, notifications (which arrive as both full-screen experiences and flyover toasts), Snap (the side-by-side app screen sharing functionality), Search, Settings, and probably more, are all served up by Metro, and often in a very jarring fashion.
Windows 8, like it or not, is thus Microsoft's best chance. It gives the company a platform that's at least unique -- I mean, seriously, could you imagine Apple foisting this two-headed hydra on customers? -- and retains all of the compatibility of the past while aiming Windows squarely at the future. But as is so often the case with Windows, its biggest strength is also its greatest weakness, and by trying to please all possible customer types, Microsoft might have just created a system that is perfect for none.
Ik herinner mij die persoon. Het is een prominent figuur in de Microsoft wereld. Toen ik nog puber was en experimenteerde met de Win Vista Beta's en de RC heb ik veel artikels van hem gelezen.
This guy knows his shit, dus het is leuk om te zien dat hij dezelfde opmerkingen heeft die ik in dit topic al maakte.
Maar jammer, zeer jammer, dat we al zitten in de Beta fase.

Alle features zijn dus al gelocked en nu is er voornamelijk alleen nog bugfixing te doen.
Dat zie je ook aan de officiële Win 8 dev blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/
Ze leggen allemaal features uit, en zeggen ook wel dat ze naar feedback in de comments luisteren.
Maar ik moet nog altijd het eerste artikel tegenkomen dat aantoont welke aanpassingen (op vlak van consistentie/gebruiksvriendelijkheid in de GUI) er werden doorgevoerd ná het vrijgeven van de Consumer Preview.