What 1980's faux-pas do you not want your company associated with?
Anyone familiar with the Gnome 3 fiasco in the Linux world predicted exactly what has happened to Windows 8.
In March 2013, GNOME 3.8 was released, which includes a new "Classic mode" that restores a number of features such as an application menu, a places menu and a window switcher along the bottom of the screen, as extensions to the Shell.
Whoever thinks that the open source world just copies the big software developers really doesn't follow the open source world. The difference is that open source can afford to make mistakes.
I still am puzzled as to why they replaced Windows XP. My computer literacy actually reached its high point under 3 point O, which was a decent product.
No. No, no, no.
I don't want political posturing polluting my tech news feeds, and I don't want idiot loon posturing polluting my political feeds.
Windows 7 is actually better but XP was great. Win8 is like the new Vista.
It's surprising that the "New Coke" debacle hasn't been eclipsed by Coke's swim with David Suzuki and the polar bears.
I've reduced my former level of consumption of Coke products by at least 90%.
Win 8 is the same as Win 7, except with a crappier UI. In terms of "under the hood" stuff, it's better, much, much better. It's that damned awful UI that ruins it though there are things like Start8 and Classicshell that will fix it.
Anyway, to the post at hand. There's no difference between open source having a fiasco and a paid product. Both will alienate your user base. The only difference of course is in the O-S world, you've usually got a competing product or 7, which makes the impact less dramatic.
Great to see a tech post on SDA.
Saying GNOME3 was a fiasco is putting it mildly. After G3 I am off Gnome forever. I will never touch it again. Words cannot describe the stupidity of those behind G3. I made the colossal mistake of installing it on my parent's computer. I know my way around Linux and after hours of fighting with G3 I nearly went insane. Shame shame shame on the Gnome team.
Open source (which I generally like) cannot afford to make too many mistakes. Indeed this is why Linux on the desktop never took off. Too many mistakes. After ten years it was still a massive pain to do something as simple as install Adobe Reader.
Anyone familiar with the Gnome 3 fiasco...
And how 'bout Ubuntu's 'Unity' Desktop? Good grief!
I moved to Linux Mint MATE after that debacle.
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Little computer dorks do not seem to understand that change is a -bad- thing. If what you have is working, you want it to KEEP working. You don't want to burn excess brain cycles learning the New Improved version which does exactly what the old version did, except them moved the buttons around.
Google seems a major offender in this regard. They've changed Blogger and Gmail GUIs both in the last year or so. The changes do not add any ease of use or better features, they just move stuff around the screen and make you re-learn to use a program you already knew how to use.
I would be using Seamonkey and Wordpress, except neither play nice with Bell DSL.
I'd be using Shaw cable instead of Bell, but Shaw is too lame to run a line 800 meters down my street from the main trunk. I offered to supply the cable, but no.
Classic Shell
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Great to see a tech post on SDA.
Saying GNOME3 was a fiasco is putting it mildly. After G3 I am off Gnome forever. I will never touch it again. Words cannot describe the stupidity of those behind G3. I made the colossal mistake of installing it on my parent's computer. I know my way around Linux and after hours of fighting with G3 I nearly went insane. Shame shame shame on the Gnome team.
Open source (which I generally like) cannot afford to make too many mistakes. Indeed this is why Linux on the desktop never took off. Too many mistakes. After ten years it was still a massive pain to do something as simple as install Adobe Reader.
1. Spend several hundred dollars on Windows 8 PC.
2. Sigh.
3. Buy Start8 for $5.
4. Move on with life.
The «Windows 7» my computer runs is actually Windows 6.1.7601. If they need it, I think the number 7 is still available for a version number.
Go to the Accessories menu, bring up the command prompt, and give the command 'ver' at the prompt.
Despite the slips, she said that Microsoft continued to view the software as suitable for both PCs and tablets and that “customer satisfaction with Windows 8 with touch is strong”.
Yup its why I have refused to buy a new computer. That strong enough?
Why should i re-learn, lose games with programs to keep some nerds happy?
Despite the slips, she said that Microsoft continued to view the software as suitable for both PCs and tablets and that “customer satisfaction with Windows 8 with touch is strong”.
Yup so strong i don't want to buy a new computer. Just to re-learn a whole new sytem. I think I will buy Apple this time around if I have to.
KDE has always and will always be my choice! I do like the windows 8 flat look but dumping the start menu was such an obvious fail. As soon as I installed the beta windows 8 I figured it'd be a flop. I didn't ever even bother to buy the $10 upgrade.
This should come as a surprise to nobody, and follows a 20 year pattern for Microsoft; they alternate between "let's get this crap out the door as fast as possible" (Windows 3, Win 2000, Vista, 8) and "we better do it right this time" (MSDOS, Win 98, XP, 7). Windows 9 will be much better.
This post is wasted on a mere business mortal such as myself. My windows stuff works fine. In reality, how can a company develop bulletproof software when hackers are out for your blood. They're out for blood due to the success of the product. And, new coke. So what? It is the media that drives the scandal, not the product. Most in our media detest American products, have little experience with American products and lie and fake their way to stories. Think of the American vehicles that were unbolted or doused in flammable liquid to ensure that the staged crashes and explosions were dramatic enough to boost ratings without regard for the impact to the manufacturer reputation. Look how they cover for the ONGOING quality issues at Toyota and Benz, the automotive equivalent of the Obama administration. Let's do a story about people fully aware and willing to buy extended maintenance plans for their krautmobiles so while they're perceived as being the 'right kind of people', the electronic and mechanical failures don't get too inconvenient or expensive. Let's write about that.
Why do the tv commercials for Windows 8,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB5txqIl8jQ
Look so much like the precision lawn chair marching team?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fgq89-dgOo
what the blog is about...its really confusing...and the picture on the site is really bad