"We’ve talked in depth about building Windows 8, including the features, the designs, and the background behind these. We’ve done so in over 70 posts totaling over 500 pages if printed out and 34 videos totaling over 90 minutes"
It's like, if you asked people what they wanted in a car, they would have said a faster horse.
This is going to a huge kitchen-skin, designed-by-a-committee disaster.
Determining what the general public wants is a crap shoot. the only reason we're even talking about Apple is because they got lucky a few times. What about the countless companies that were creating the future only to fizzle out for lack of interest? Microsoft can't take those sorts of risks on their core cash cows.
>This is going to a huge kitchen-skin, designed-by-a-committee disaster.
Err what? You're taking the PR spin at it's face value. The reality is that people have been hollering for the old Start menu and MS just went with what they think is right and the put up a few blog posts after they implemented things as they liked.
The blog posts are really explanations of what they alread designed. Look at how they started appearing only after the Beta came and not for the 2 years Windows 8 was actually being designed?
Also, nautilus is easily the worst file management utility on any platform currently, most especially the gnome3 variant. Let me know when the Favorites, you know, actually work the way they do in every other file manager (including the gnome2 variant)
I'm used to Marlin, I mean "Files" (in Elementary), and Finder's column view. The Bookmarks that most file managers have make the lack of column browsing a bit more tolerable, but it's still lacking in a great number of ways. But no, not Nautilus's.