Evaluation Finds Windows 8 to be Unusable and Even User-Hostile [Video]

Posted December 27, 2012 at 5:04pm by iClarified | Please help us and submit a translation by clicking here | 24457 views

Check out this video from Brian Boyko that details how he found Windows 8 to be unusable and even user-hostile when attempting to review the operating system.

When I had some free time to take a look at Windows 8, I realized that I couldn't be impartial. The thing blows, and in this cartoon illustration, I show exactly why.

Take a look below...

[via CultofMac]

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Ray Carlos - January 18, 2013 at 11:42pm

First I have been using MS products since it came out. I liked it better than the CPM I was using. I was a Lan manager with over 5000 pcs. I always promoted MS products because they were good. I load win 8 before it was released. Win 8 came up and I did not know how to get to the desktop. When I got there. there was no intuitive way I could know to go to the upper right hand corner and select anything to find my apps or settings to power off. Like the man said, with over 20 yrs using MS I felt dumb. I use to write MS programs for 20 yrs. There was no manual for win 8 yet. I had to hold classes in how to get around in win 8 to employees that have been using windows for years. If it was so great then why does MS have a free down grade and why has one third of win 8 users load a solution to replace the old menu on the desktop?

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DarkDreams - January 15, 2013 at 2:38pm

The writer must be a moron, my 3 year old nephew can use my Windows 8 desktop PC!

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nTs - December 29, 2012 at 3:38am

This writer is full of negative crap, if He can not understand how to close programs after using the O/S for the time He suggested, He is an idiot. Seems to me He is an i OS preferred brain washed writer and can not see the changes as progress not egress. I agree the design is indeed much changed and presumes a learning curve, this is of course forced on the users because, if they [Microsoft] did not create a new type of way to address the use of the selecting of apps; the i OS company would hall their buts into court and want money for nothing, because they are computer GODS and no one else has any rights or ideas. Overall I submit this article is crap and the writer needs to use a study of sort to get the brain cells He seems to have lost back. When that is done, apologize to the readers for His negative badly done assault on their choice of using Windows 8 and learning how to use it. Windows 8 is not perfect, nor is i OS or any other operating system ever designed.

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Suiton nu Jutsu - December 28, 2012 at 11:43pm

Face it windows 8 is best use on tablets and windows phone not for a desktop or a laptop.. Especially gaming.. Other people say its worth it some don't.. Personally I preffer 7, not all softwares are updated for windows 8 use, if your the type of person that matters compatibility then don't use 8 but if its fine for you to be hassled sometimes then go ahead, yeah you can still use desktop option on W8 but I find it a bit annoying for some reason. Just stick to being simple yet modern touch.

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dtourond - December 30, 2012 at 10:54pm

I think Windows 8 works fine on a laptop. I use it and I have no problem with compatibility. Since Windows 7 and 8 are very similar programs running in Windows 7 won't have a problem working in Windows 8. And if you're a gamer and you use Steam there's an app in the Windows Store that'll pin all your steam games to the Start Screen.

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NetTraptor - December 28, 2012 at 7:00pm

Yap very elegantly put! Windows 8 is such a fail on UI that soon people will be coming out with windows 7 skins. They already released a ton of start menu applications and UI tweaking just to bring back all the usability and coherence lost in 8

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dtourond - December 28, 2012 at 7:15pm

Actually Windows 8 enhances a lot of usability and it is in a lot of ways better than 7. If people want to run these ridiculous start menu programs to emulate the start menu then fine but I think people are just too stubborn to actually try and learn about it.. I didn't know taking 10 minutes to learn about something was such a horrible thing for people to do...

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NetTraptor - December 28, 2012 at 7:37pm

All this said I have deployed this in a 20 people department since late August start of September. Resistance to change is something we punish here :) I will not mention how many of those 20 really begged me to install a start menu mod. Yes there are some nice things to it like boot up speed, new fancy menus, widgets, apps, but the new logic is really worrying most of the times. Coherence and usability suffers while it lucks decisiveness as well as accurate market targeting. What or who this OS is targeted for is really not clear. Is it for tablets? is it for phones? is it for desktop productivity? In the end of the day you do not need to read more manuals to do basic OS stuff and you need less swipe, point and click actions to get something done, not more. In the process of catching up with the tablet/smartphone market they really messed it up for desktop users in some ways.

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Devon - January 22, 2013 at 9:50pm

"Yes there are some nice things to it like boot up speed, new fancy menus, widgets, apps, but the new logic is really worrying most of the times." The real problem is that people these days don't have the will to learn new things and the minute they see something that they find isn't "easy to use", they freak out and think it's bad when really great. "Is it for tablets? is it for phones? is it for desktop productivity?" Well it's obviously not for phones. I have yet to see any phone running Windows 8. Instead, you have Windows Phone 8 for smartphones and Windows 8 for laptops/tablets. "they really messed it up for desktop users in some ways." They actually improved it, but what Microsoft failed on was making a proper tutorial for users.

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