Following on from my previous post about MS dropping the start menu in Win 8 (although it’s still kind of available if you move your mouse to the far bottom left hand corner of the screen).
Have been running this on Oracle VirtualBox (in 64-bit mode using Windows 7 as host) I won’t re-invent the wheel and do a full review – lots of that already out there: http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/windows/3284198/microsoft-windows-8-review/
Not finding the user experience that great – I hope they are going to do a fair amount of polishing before this gets released! Anything that requires an official blog post this long to explain the basics of how to use it with a keyboard and mouse has to be a bit worrying?
Great post on the Guardian that sums up similar thoughts to me nicely: http://www.guardian.co.uk/discussion/comment-permalink/14922607. Reading through the mixture of comments makes me think that Windows 8 should be renamed Windows Marmite!
Will be interesting to see how things play out here – will MS just get sidelined by another wave of Apple product adoption (this time more mainstream desktop users at home and in the office) or will this work and they manage to cling on to OS dominance? Only time will tell!
