Review by iReview

If Microsoft 8 works faster and better under the hood, great. I am not opposed to the pretty tiles.. but they lead to apps that just don’t cut it. I have spent years finding and working with programs (mail client for example) that do what I want very well. Great if they come up with a better mail client but they haven’t… and it is unlikely that they will be better than the market (this was always Windows’ strength..the market competes to come up with applications that work well).

The aggregation function of the people app is nice, but frankly, it just isn’t as good as the facebook page itself so I am not going there. It is cool to see my photos aggregated, but the functionality isn’t near as good as picasa.

so I have to wade through these tiles to get back to the programs I already know and use. It seems like such a waste of time. I am happy to try new things but they just seem to want to go to the top down approach of apple (with all their built in apple applications). It works for apple because they have honed these programs over years and years. Even at that, they aren’t as good as marketplace produced applications. Their benefit is that they are so tightly integrated with apple, they work well without glitches etc.. but still, they are only valuable because they have been honed. I am not willing to wait 10 years as MS hones its mail app. I’ll use the one I have. Or finally go to apple if this becomes too much of a hassle.

I tried windows 8 on my extra laptop. If I avoid the apps and go right to my desktop, it is fine.. but annoying. I will not upgrade my main desktop computer or my other laptops.

This is a fail.

sorry microsoft.