More bad news surfaces

[gertsy]

That's all you really need to read. Just some lawyer douches trying to make some money. Probably have their friends and family shorting MSFT for a quick buck from all the bad publicity.

And the high probability that the same most likely promoted the story to the tech media in order to drum up potential litigants. And the media follows that insider source without checking or verification.
I have a Surface RT which I replaced my iPad 2 with last xmas. The iPad is my wife's now and I don't miss it at all. But I stopped listening to hype a while back.  It's outcomes and productivity that I use to determine successful products. The MS surface adverts make me cringe too. But that's marketing. We all know how great Commodore's marketing was. U keeping up with me?

BTW: What's the first thing people with and iPad do when they want to type on it?....Buy a 3rd party keyboard.

BTBTW: @Duce save your energy, it's not worth the effort. It's clear aliens are invisible otherwise we'd all see them.

[gertsy]

People resist change.  The Windows ball hasn't had start on it since 2007, yet people still call it the "Start Menu."  It's back in 8.1 and it basically does the same thing the Windows key does, it brings you to the Windows 8 Desktop.  What is wrong with the Windows 8 desktop?  Basically it doesn't look like the Windows 7 flop up menu, that's the bottom line.   People attacked the flop up "Start" button in Windows 95 when it first came out, for very valid reasons, but people have grown used to it and they now cling to it.  Face it, the flop up Windows ball was a dumb idea in 1994 and is even dumber 2 decades later.  I, for one, am happy to see it gone.

"Start me up! If you start me up I never stop." How prophetic were those words. 18 years ago.
The start screen is the start menu. But it's an invisible alien at the moment.
The reality that we all think we know is based on context, knowledge and experience(scepticism and doubt can lead us into traps just as quickly as belief and fad) . Point of fact: https://www.facebook.com/ChristiansAgainstSlipknot?directed_target_id=0

[gertsy]

I don't think thats all of it. I installed 8 on a Tablet PC.  It took longer using the touch interface with a touch pen to find and start the apps I wanted  IMO it comes down the inefficient use of screen size: massive tiles mean larger hand movements, more hand movements, less information within easy reach. It slows the user down, it creates an obstacle that just doesn't need to be there.

I installed a 3rd part start menu, 1 week later, and made 8 boot straight into the desktop.  But it still *felt* cumbersome: it takes more clicks to get to the control panel for example.

And the default theme windows just looks bad.

I eventually took it off after 1 month and went back to Windows 7.

Hi stefcep2. What tablet PC did you install it on?
Did you try showing the control panel icon on the desktop?  
Right click or hold your finger/stylus on the desktop. Select "personalise" select "change desktop icons" check "control panel". Now you have control panel on the desktop just below my computer and network. No change from windows 7.