Will Windows 8 in September further improve WP7.5 an 8's marketshare?

[TheSwordUser]

disolitude said:

TheSwordUser said:

I hope it doesn't. Otherwise MS will get the idea that we (as a whole) like Windows 8 and we'll be forever stuck with this ugly excuse of an interface.

New features are fine, however, in my opinion, if this Metro abomination will stay mandatory in any way, shape or form on desktops and laptops, then this system will fail. Mostly due to internet backlash.

And yes, I've tested W8. Deleted VM with it after 15 minutes, I just couldn't stand looking at this new "start menu".

It looks decent on handheld devices with touchscreen, but it just doesn't make sense on 24" HD display. Big boxes cluttering entire display space doesn't look appealing when you can just have, you know , regular icons.

When I was a kid a lot of my friends had older brothers who kept saying the same things about Windows 3.1. It being an abomination... They were part of the DOS 4 Life crowd. And we see how that turned out.

At the time, MS pretty much stole desktop UI from Mac and it worked for decades. Now when they're trying to be innovative....well, it looks like an attempt to cash-in a quick buck because supporting one, and only one system for more than 3 years is just not profitable enough. Or it's just plain fixing something that isn't broken at all. For that kind of change to make sense, we'd need to see other OSes (various Linux distros, OS X) start using Metro-esque interface sometime later (if it's the real and only way to move forward). At this moment, I consider Metro UI a Love-it-or-hate-it gimmick.

Windows 7 will be supported till 2020 at least, there's no need to hurry with moving (unless Win8 will have exclusive directX 12 support or something like that, as it was with 10 and vista).