Basic question about Windows 8 UI - Computers, Math, Science ...

Its very clear that Microsoft is trying to beat Apple to the Marriage of mobile and personal computing. The problem is I think their execution is not working relatively well. I agree that Win8 on a personal computing device looks to behave like a mobile device, and this causes en masse confusion. While I applaud Microsoft for their attempt to innovate something unique, I just dont think its working terribly well.

I would feel better, and I think a few others would say the same thing, if Microsoft were to focus on under the hood innovation (this made them known for things like Exchange and Active Directory, and although Active Directory is a real bastardization of LDAP and nothing new, it was something that made them popular). A total Security Redesign, the elimination of ActiveX and DCOM controls, a more decentralized order of operation (Im sure that MS could re-aquire the rights to Xenix its own version of Unix back in the day....yes....Microsoft owned a unix variant at one time, make no mistake about that), and overall stability improvements.

As it stands now constant redesigns to the desktop across all platforms that care about it are confusing users more and more. Microsoft redesigns, and it loses people (and Win8 may be the very release that drives users away from it and to alternatives like Apple and Unix variants -- Linux included). Apple is slowly trying to marry without actually doing it, the mobile device and the personal computing device, but without changing the entire desktop as a result. Gnome (the interface nazis of the linux world) attempted to do the same with Gnome 3.x, and that caused alot of fallout (Ive alwasy been an openbox user, so this didnt really affect me much).

From a point of focus, I think that what works is what needs to stay, and what doesnt work needs to be fixed. But then thats an opinion coming from an old war-torn Aspie network security engineer, and probably doesnt mean much to anyone.
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An Old NetSec Engineer. Diag 11/29.
A1: AS 299.80 A2: SPD features 301.20
GAF: 50 - 60 range.

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