Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Most Pointless Version of Windows”.
What was the worst version of Windows ever? We’Ve argued. It was clearly Windows me or me, but there’s another version that people love to hate Windows 8 may not have been the buggiest release ever, but it was definitely in the most pointless. So, let’s take a stroll down memory lane back to 2012, when the iPhone 5 was all the rage. Call Me Maybe was the most overplayed song in history and the end of the world. We were bracing for didn’t, bother to show up. Seven had been out for about three years, and people actually seem to like it, but it was built for traditional desktops and laptops.
Microsoft could sense that a massive shift toward mobile Computing on touchscreen devices was imminent and the company understandably didn’t want to be left behind. So they adopted the attitude that Windows had to be on everything from desktop PCS. All the way down to smartphones in 2010, Microsoft released an operating system for phones, simply called Windows phone 7.. It introduced the concept of live tiles, which were supposed to distinguish the OS from IOS and Android. Instead of boring, static, app icons, users would instead get large tiles, which would show real-time information like messages, emails or news updates. This design, language called Metro was actually relatively well received, with some Outlets praising Microsoft for daring to go in such a different direction. So what does this have to do with Windows? 8. Well. Windows.
8 directly borrowed quite a few design elements from Windows phone own, possibly due to the positive feedback or possibly because they planned for that to happen all along, but regardless Microsoft clearly thought the correct way to get Windows onto every device was to have it. Look. The same on every device, but it turned out that this wasn’t the solution and we’ll get into the exact reasons. Why, after we thank brilliant, brilliant is a visually stimulating website designed to make learning stem topics, Fun Trade, boring long lectures for problem solving and interactive visuals.
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As when the Metro app took over the whole screen, the taskbar would disappear, leaving novice users wondering what the heck was going on, although you could still get back to the traditional Windows desktop pretty easily Windows, 8 felt confusingly like two operating systems in one with a Normal desktop experience and a touch optimized experience stuffed into a single bizarre package. Maddeningly Windows 8 also lacked any option to restore the classic start menu as a decision that was so unpopular that developing third-party tools to restore it became a full-blown cottage industry. Windows 8. Also debuted a built-in app store which wasn’t bad, but seeing as how many people were already used to just finding whatever program they needed through a quick web search.
The new Windows store raised concerns about Windows becoming a Walled Garden in which users would ultimately have less control over their own PCS. But this wasn’t to say: Windows 8 was a terrible OS. It was roughly as stable and Polished as Windows 7 and some of the weird UI decisions could have been forgiven if Windows 8 actually improved in other ways over its predecessor for desktop users.
There were some useful new features, such as the ribbon in file explorer a new task manager with a performance monitor, secure boot to prevent against root kits and Native USB 3 and nvme support. But all of these features likely could have been part of a Windows. 7 update, or at least didn’t necessitate such a radical redesign of the user interface simply put Windows 8 didn’t give users enough positive changes to outweigh the negative ones, especially considering that the popular Windows 7 was also a minimalist unintrusive OS that largely stayed out of the Way, even on phones, where Metro, apps and live tiles seem to make a little more sense.
Microsoft overestimated how much utility the average user would get out of them. It turns out. Most people didn’t need a bunch of live tiles vying for their attention. Every time they opened their phone think of how annoying regular notifications can be without live tiles, and there simply wasn’t enough interest from Big app developers on the platform, especially the likes of Google, who didn’t want to help Microsoft compete with Android, just by handing them a Youtube app, for example, so the phone version of Windows 8 didn’t fare much better and Microsoft completely pulled out of the phone OS Market in 2017..
On the desktop side, the start screen was completely axed in Windows, 10 and live tiles disappeared by the time Windows. 11 rolled around: yes, they were still in Windows, 10. and, ironically, the Mac Microsoft. Surface.
Lineup is doing just fine today without a specific tablet interface, but if any Microsoft developers are watching this video, please don’t feel too badly. Windows 8 was far from the most pointless tech product. We’Ve ever seen. Remember Jibo.
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