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All this bashing on Windows 8 reminds me of the first version of OS X, Cheetah. Apple proves the pundits wrong. I wish Microsoft the same.

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Yea yea you like the underdog.. have you used windows 8?

have you?

Yes. And I liked it ( I was puzzled by the UI for the 3 first days.) Besides usability and esthetical considerations, MS has done something very clever : Javascript as a first class citizen for building apps is a game changer.

I can't say I'm a huge fan, it is really undiscoverable with the charms etc... The one normal person I showed it to kept hitting escape to try to get out of where they were.

I don't think it will do overly great based on what I've seen. But we'll see if I'm wrong!

Yes they definitely should have added the concept of going back.

It's not a great experience for working, I had to admit that. But as an "entertainment OS" I found it really interesting.

WebOS had HTML/JS apps as well and it didn't do very well. Execution, not ideas, is what wins user's loyalty and dollars. Microsoft was king of execution in the 90s. Today, not so much.

Yeah, but Apple is, despite their (myriad) flaws, pretty darn good at the "making a usable OS" game.

MS, well, not so much.

MS seems pretty capable of making a usable OS. Have you used Windows 7?

They learnt it the hard way. Have a look at the first Siracusa's review of OS X http://arstechnica.com/apple/2001/04/macos-x/

But I had to admit that compared to Apple, MS might not be introspective enough to improve Windows.

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