Dear Microsoft : How to Make Windows 8 a massive hit! 2013

2013 2013 2013


(2)- Offer the option to enable a classic start menu.



(3)- Offer the option to enable Aero Glass.



That's it. Not even defaults. Just options that are user-selectable during the install process or afterwards without downloading 3rd-party apps. And make sure that even 90-IQ customers can see a 'classic' option complete with little picture that they can click on from Metro that says 'enable classic desktop', and 'make default?', or 'don't ask again' if they don't want to go that route.



I kind of like Metro on the HP touch systems I've tried it on, chasing tablet/phone dreams seems silly to me, but whatever. That's neither here nor there.



99% of the bad press and aggravated people could be alleviated by simply offering incredibly easy options that have been artificially removed from this Win7.5 + Tablet project.



Oh, and corporate users might give it a serious look if you offered them a more productive classic desktop experience (ie; normal desktop boot + start menu). It otherwise is DOA to the business world for the most part, a la Vista and the hopeless compatibility problems (honestly not Microsoft's fault for the most part, but telling people they have to buy a new $400+ license of a new Vista-friendly variant of Acrobat Pro, and so forth and so on along with no 64 bit drivers for a bunch of popular printers/scanners/etc was a big pain that made nobody happy).



So that's it. Offer options. You can still have your Metro cake and win people over with the good under the hood Win8 work. Give people some virtual coupons for free Metro apps like some special version of Angry Birds, etc, and watch a decent number of people start to not hate it so much. It's my opinion that most of the hate is because of the fundamentally forced change that is a bridge too far for many, and expecting people to know how to hunt down 3rd party apps and hacks is unrealistic. Most users don't know what a file extension is, let alone feel great about not knowing where anything is. I've had SEVERAL users not know how to actually shut their units down properly. SMH.



/not a Win8 hate thread.



//I honestly believe that the simple 1-2-3 in the OP would fix most of this mess. But egos are too large so they probably won't, outside of maybe a 'service pack' that gives some of this stuff to their corporate clients.



///you can't please everyone :D</div>


2013 2013 2013



(2)- Offer the option to enable a classic start menu.



(3)- Offer the option to enable Aero Glass.



That's it. Not even defaults. Just options that are user-selectable during the install process or afterwards without downloading 3rd-party apps. And make sure that even 90-IQ customers can see a 'classic' option complete with little picture that they can click on from Metro that says 'enable classic desktop', and 'make default?', or 'don't ask again' if they don't want to go that route.



I kind of like Metro on the HP touch systems I've tried it on, chasing tablet/phone dreams seems silly to me, but whatever. That's neither here nor there.



99% of the bad press and aggravated people could be alleviated by simply offering incredibly easy options that have been artificially removed from this Win7.5 + Tablet project.



Oh, and corporate users might give it a serious look if you offered them a more productive classic desktop experience (ie; normal desktop boot + start menu). It otherwise is DOA to the business world for the most part, a la Vista and the hopeless compatibility problems (honestly not Microsoft's fault for the most part, but telling people they have to buy a new $400+ license of a new Vista-friendly variant of Acrobat Pro, and so forth and so on along with no 64 bit drivers for a bunch of popular printers/scanners/etc was a big pain that made nobody happy).



So that's it. Offer options. You can still have your Metro cake and win people over with the good under the hood Win8 work. Give people some virtual coupons for free Metro apps like some special version of Angry Birds, etc, and watch a decent number of people start to not hate it so much. It's my opinion that most of the hate is because of the fundamentally forced change that is a bridge too far for many, and expecting people to know how to hunt down 3rd party apps and hacks is unrealistic. Most users don't know what a file extension is, let alone feel great about not knowing where anything is. I've had SEVERAL users not know how to actually shut their units down properly. SMH.



/not a Win8 hate thread.



//I honestly believe that the simple 1-2-3 in the OP would fix most of this mess. But egos are too large so they probably won't, outside of maybe a 'service pack' that gives some of this stuff to their corporate clients.



///you can't please everyone :D</div>


2013 2013 2013
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