I’m a regular reader of John Scalzi’s blog. He recently bought a snazzy new computer that, of course, came with Windows 8. He’s been posting his reactions, and today he added the following opinion about the Windows 8 workflow, and the Start Page in particular:
You have to stop what you’re doing, fire up a separate screen that obscures everything you’re working on, and locate a program in a tile (you can also type in the program name and then click on the result, but you still have to first leave your work environment). It’s a hassle, but more than a hassle it’s an arbitrary imposition of the UI on actual workflow. Or to put it more bluntly: Windows 8 is wasting my time, and for no good reason.
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It’s not the sparkly computer’s fault, it was Win8. So now I’ve fixed that part of Win8 that was annoying me.
He’s using Stardock’s “Start 8″ program to serve this purpose. I will probably be checking this out (or some similar alternate) myself.
January 17th, 2013 at 6:34 pm
Thought of you when I read this today. Guess I don’t need to tell you about it, then.
January 20th, 2013 at 7:28 am
Or you could get a real operating system
January 20th, 2013 at 7:35 pm
Yes, I suppose I could install something much simpler that has none of these problems.
Of course, if I did then I’d also have to…
That sort-of peace of mind isn’t worth my time.