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Ask HN: They will bring back Windows Classic and make billions?

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I'm finding simple tasks that involve multiple windows challenging. Did Microsoft make Windows 8 so that when everyone hates it, they will bring back Windows Classic and make billions?

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Take a look at Scott Hanselman's blog post 'Windows 8 productivity: Who moved my cheese? Oh, there it is.'

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Windows8ProductivityWhoMovedMy...

This helped me a lot. I don't particularly like the OS, but once you read that post you should find the experience manageable.

Not everybody hates it, though many do, and many find it confusing. Microsoft is attempting to build a future forward system by making people transition to it now. Arguably they should have done the windows 8 style interface (aka the metro interface, but there were TM issues with that or something) as a secondary optional interface on PCs and the main interface for tablets, then built on the experience they got from early adopters, but they decided to try to force things on people and have users test it, then learn from their mistakes, as they did with Vista.

Or at least have the user set which will be their default. I think Metro is actually fine for most users who are only using web, email, media, etc. even if on their laptops (yes, their are many people who fall into this category).

I find I'm in the desktop most of the time and almost never go to the metro start screen, which is a shame, because I'd like to be able to use their innovations, but most of the apps I run only run in desktop mode.

I like Windows 8, but I really just like using it on touchscreen devices. On a touchscreen device, I think it has the potential to dominate everything else, as long as the apps start to show up and the second round of devices isn't plagued by crippling hardware and software defects, like nearly everything that wasn't manufactured by Microsoft.

The best way I can describe using the new interface on a non-touch device is that it feels like the operating system equivalent of a console port.

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