| SxyxS said: I always thought the complaining about W8 was more of the "don't like change+ Antifanboy "-blabla. Seems there is more to it .A Vista2 maybe? |
About the GUI, designing it mainly for touchscreens can make it less suitable for classic mouse+kb use.
About criticisms coming from devs, as others wrote, trying to join PC, tablets and phones in a same OS, while at the same time keeping BC for the legacy Windows PC apps, that is the most essential ingredient of MS near-monopoly on PC market, can make the whole system quite bloated and make devs' life more difficult, or, in the best case, just more boring.
Add to this that with every novelty has the potential of making many people that were happy with the old system unhappy, and that for the vast majority of people an OS is just a tool to make other programs run, and the result is that in such a complicated scenario it's almost sure that evolution and refinement steps like Win 7, and probably Win 9 too, gather more positive reactions than more revolutionary steps, that introduce new ideas, but need the feedback of real world users to receive the necessary refinements and just choose which ones of the new ideas are here to stay.
