Microsoft FAIL, Microsoft to reverse course on Windows 8

[TreasonousBastard]

29. BFD-- "Consumers" aren't buying shit but phones and tablets...

so it's really what the Commerce Department, Ford, Bank of America and others who buy PC by the thousands want-- which is often enough 2-3 cycles in. My new work government computer I got last year runs, of all things, Vista-- a highly modified Vista that few would recognize and took them a few years to properly reconfigure and debug. Methinks many companies are just getting used to Win7 and won't upgrade again until 9 or 10, or whatever is in the works.

Consumers are buying phones and tablets and really don't give a shit what the screen looks like if they can tweet. They care even less about what 6 nerds on a blog think about operating systems unless they ask their "expert" friends and get the bad news-- which is always that the latest Microsoft effort sucks rocks and the last one doesn't suck rocks any more. You can never go wrong bashing Microsoft.

I admit that there are a few things I hate about Win8, but there have been a few things I've hated about every OS since Atari. Commodore, and DOS 2.1. Overall, it's been stable, fast, and runs most of the software I use just fine. So, I have no major gripes except it I had to download Freecell as an app and haven't figured out how to get it to side by other programs. The Bejeweled clone is a nice time waster, though.

I do hate the tiles, but one mouse click and they go away. Or hit the Windows key to toggle them on and off. No Start button (who uses that anyway?) but the desktop is identical to what I have on the XP box and the 7 laptop except for nicer backgrounds.