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Clickbate marketing article name with little valuable substance. I tried Windows 10 in tablet mode and I found the whole experience to be disjointed. It felt out of touch with recent UX trends / advancements, the same old thing with a new skin and even more tiles. Everything I wanted to do took more 'clicks' that I was happy with and there's little-to-no consideration to power users. Am I the only one that doesn't see any signs of real innovation here?

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They are marketing really hard where the tech nerds and devs are, astroturfing comment sections and sponsored articles everywhere.

Things like Microsoft is changing and giving fuzzy feelings (really?), but the general audience is harder to get. I've seen huge billboards with surface 3 ads, special sections in stores, but I've never seen one in the wild.

They are pretty prevalent in school. At least in the Math and CS departments where I spend the majority of my time.

I work for a medium sized tech company and the surfaces are absolutely ubiquitous, 1:1 with Mac books easily. People who have them absolutely adore them. I'm considering getting a surface book when the lease on my rmbpro is up.

I read this like you're just trying to find reason to hate MS and/or Windows... IMO

I don't hate them, I wish they'd become real competition. Competition and diversity in this industry is fundamental to its success. Unfortunately I only see the same old irrelevant, boring products almost no signs of innovation. They're one of the largest companies in the world and the best the best they can do is a tablet with a bendy keyboard running the same old OS with a new theme slapped haphazardly on top? Poor effort.

I haven't used 10 yet (or even 8). What UX trends are you referring to?

The best one paragraph, 3 sentence description I've come across (http://www.nngroup.com/articles/windows-8-disappointing-usab...):

As mentioned in the introduction, Windows 8 encompasses two UI styles within one product. Windows 8 on mobile devices and tablets is akin to Dr. Jekyll: a tortured soul hoping for redemption. On a regular PC, Windows 8 is Mr. Hyde: a monster that terrorizes poor office workers and strangles their productivity.

I've used it on my mother's Surface Pro (sysadmin stuff), and can't imagine using it on a desktop without major addons etc. The pain of maintaining a Linux desktop is much less for me.

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