Tech journalists give Microsoft a lot of advice – nobody listens
The tech journalists are full of advice about what Microsoft should do to fix Windows 8. They were also full of advice about Vista. Microsoft ignored them then and Microsoft will ignore them now. Microsoft management lives in a closed world. Anyway, some of the suggestions strike me as frivolous.
At MarketWatch, John Dvorak joins in with his article Microsoft needs a Windows 8 fix now . Ironically, he makes this observation about Microsoft, “…it never apologizes and doggedly says whatever it just did is great and innovative, always hoping to convince itself.” He then goes right on with his advice that Microsoft get rid of any touch capability and the Metro interface altogether. And how likely is that?
Another piece of drastic advice comes from Tom Warren at The Verge. He writes that it is time to drop the Windows name entirely. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer must love that suggestion.
A more practical suggestion that comes from many sources but is also likely to be ignored by Ballmer is that the price of the new Microsoft Surface devices is too high and should be lowered. Spot on, but milking customers is the Microsoft way.
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I installed a desktop start menu and metro startup bypass. It is not perfect, metro is still there. It happens as soon as you try and alt-tab or whatever.
However, I had to install that start menu app. I had to replace a client’s machine that was 10 years old. It’s a utility machine that runs one app. I had no interest in trying to train them on W8. Microsoft doesn’t pay me for that and neither will my client.
I am really not happy with metro being shoved down our throats especially with its current UX.
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I agree, some of the suggestions are a bit overboard.
It would make such a significant difference though to allow the end user an option to use the Metro or Classic shell as the default startup mode. That is the single greatest confusion and complaint I’ve seen (and experienced).
I also don’t understand why Microsoft’s Security Essentials is a less-functional Windows Defender in Windows 8 or why Windows Media Player doesn’t play DVDs. I also don’t understand why it’s not easier to add shortcuts to the classic desktop or to get to simple features like Windows Update.