Despite rumours of my demise, mostly from senior managers at a certain major tech company I suspect I’m now getting into the home stretch of what has been an extremely busy time writing my three forthcoming Windows 8 books (Troubleshoot & Optimise Windows 8: Inside Out, The Windows 8 Power Users Guide and Windows 8: Out of the Box). It’s not been easy I can assure you but I’m now in the home straight and getting ready to deploy Windows 8 myself.
I thought you might interested in what I’m doing here to get ready to use Windows 8 in my home and work life and why I’m completely moving away from Windows 7, despite most definitely being a “content-creator”. I say this because deploying Windows 8 won’t be like moving to Windows 7 or from XP on to Vista. In order to get the very best out Windows 8 there comes a need to accept that it’s a very different beast to what’s come before.
Despite feeling a little ambivalent towards Windows 8 when it was first officially unveiled last September I’ve now been using it on my laptop for many months, every single day. After all, I needed to be using it to write about it. I needed to get under its skin, learn absolutely everything about it and become as familiar with what it is and how it works as I am with the back of my own hand.
After all this time spent using it I’ve grown very fond of it and I’m looking forward to using the new Start Screen apps in anger, especially as they mature and third-party apps grow in number, functionality and polish. I’m looking forward to the release of the important RTM (Release to Manufacturing) which I expect at the end of July so much that I thought I’d share my enthusiasm here with you (I am a Windows MVP after all and that’s what Microsoft like us to do [to the nay-sayers I'll comment on Apple in a bit... read on]).
