Windows 8 deserves a chance

[JMH]

When I set up my first Windows 8 system back when Microsoft released the Developer Preview, I was somewhat irritated by the removal of core operating system features like the Start menu that I had been using for over a decade in different versions of Windows. Even more alien was the new startpage that Microsoft had added to the operating system which felt like a new interface that had nothing to do with the desktop and the way Windows used to be.

I too believed at this point that Microsoft was making a huge mistake, that it was betting big on touch and that touch-enabled devices would become the de facto standard in computing. While I believed that they got it right for the mobile computing market, I could not see myself using a touchscreen on my desktop PC. Sure, the startpage and Charms menu did support mouse and keyboard as well, but it somehow felt like something that Microsoft added on top of the native controls.

The release of the Consumer Preview did not change my perception of the operating system and I joined the chorus of Windows users who felt that Microsoft was neglecting the desktop in favor of a system that did not work on the desktop, which after all was Microsoft's core home market.

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[AceInfinity]

I have the same view as this guy (from only reading the quoted part). It didn't make any sense whatsoever to me, the way i'm different from him, is that I actually use the start menu and search. Because if I can pin stuff in my start menu, it makes my taskbar less cluttered when i'm not forced to pin absolutely everything to it. And on top of that, it gets even more cluttered when you have multiple windows open for applications which aren't pinned to your taskbar, and when it gets full, all those little taskbar items get smaller and smaller...

Where's the space? And I don't feel like having to navigate through the tileview all the time clicking and dragging with my mouse to find something (that's a real pain).

It DOES deserve a chance, I appreciate and take an interest in all the new features they have, it's just a shame that it's available on this operating system which was really more developed for a Tablet or something like that.

EDIT: This is actually the most truthful and most accurate reflection of my opinion for Windows 8, converted into words, that I could possibly make. I hope and pray that by Windows 9 they will consider the needs of a desktop user, or at least sometime in the future releases of Windows Operating Systems.