This guy is not only an asshat, he's also a terrible liar.

I've been using Windows 8 for a few days and I had none of the problems he speaks of, and some of the problems he describes are not even real. He can't close the weather app? BULLSHIT. I didn't take a course in the damn thing, and I found out how to close apps in minutes.

Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows division *did* get fired shortly after Windows 8 launch.

Of course they're not saying why, but one of the rumors was that Sinofsky alienated many coworkers and was notoriously hard to work with.

In fairness though, I haven't played with Win8 since the first developer preview. I've got an iso of the release version but just haven't had time to mess with it. And with all the negative press I've heard so far and the fact that Win7 is great and still not all that old yet, I just don't see it as a priority.

WinXP held up for a very long time (in fact it's still holding up for lots of businesses) and so I think people liked the longevity as opposed to these rapid fire releases MS normally does. So when 8 came out, I think the collective response was "Do we need this? We just settled into Win7" I'm sure there are many under-the-hood improvements in Win8, but like the reviewer mentioned, if your UI sucks or is at the very least, controversial as Win8 undoubtedly is, it's what your OS sinks or swims on, regardless of how good the OS may be underneath.

Yay... another person moaning about Windows 8. I've been using it since launch and while it isn't perfect, it's no where near as bad as dicks like this make it out to be

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Windows 8 is a mixed bag. The biggest issue for me is at the root. Deciding to have two completely different UIs baked in is a poor choice in my opinion.

The start screen is lame, I never go there. Good news: you don't have to. Otherwise it's a better Windows 7.

@VoodooV the inside shit on Steven Sinofsky was that he quit because Balmer decided not to step down and make him CEO. This is dirt from MS insiders. He also is the one that basically demanded the start screen, so that probably did alienate a lot of people.

Windows 8 reminds me of Apple-style arrogance. Like charging $29 for an adapter, and foisting Apple Maps on users, Microsoft foisted Metro on users.

Having used it on my sister's computer, it's clearly not sufficiently consolidated with the desktop option. It doesn't offer any usability improvements to the extent I've used it. As the video points out, accessing menus is confusing and is immediately obvious to any power user who wants to set it up as they like.

Their intentions are clear. Consolidate desktop, tablet and to a lesser extent phone to a similar UI and thereby gain an advantage over Google/Apple which are relatively fragmented.

Problem is, they're approaching it by foisting it on people. As mentioned Metro/Desktop bridging is half baked. Rather than removing the start key, they should have made Metro optional, and incentivised people onto it through usability benefits.

The interface for desktop mode is not ready. In keeping it optional, they could have given themselves breathing space on top of the Windows 8 release to make integration far more seamless.

The point of full screen is clear from a productivity point of view. Clear all distractions and get the job done. Problem is, instead it is acting as a barrier to usability through confusion menu navigation.

While the video creator has exaggerated the problems I think his points are spot on.

I h8 W8 on desktops/non-touch screen machines.

Full review from the usability guru Jakob Nielsen (quoted in the video): http://www.nngroup.com/articles/windows-8-disappointing-usability/

This seems to be a bit overblown. He's outraged because he wants to be outraged. Meh.

If you assume the metro interface didn't exist, then windows 8 is an improvement on windows 7 by any standard, I'd say. I even like the idea of having a full screen start menu, but the whole "Modern UI" is stupid.

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I tried the developer preview, and it took me about half an hour of playing around to figure it out. It's not that bad, but it's not good either. I agree with some of his complaints about the OS, like the charms bar. It works different depending on if you're in the desktop or metro screens. It makes no since that the charms bar comes in from the side by moving the mouse to the right top/bottom corners to bring it up where the left corners bring their functions up in that corner.

Some of his rant, like the control panel, make him sound like an idiot. He claims to be some kind of expert, but he can't find the control panel? Seriously, from the start screen just begin typing control and there it is, for me it's the top one after typing "co." He also doesn't use the Windows key, and doesn't think anyone uses it. I use it all the time, ever since I got my first keyboard that had one on it. There are a lot of Win+Key that make things quicker and easier than doing it with the mouse. When I leave my desk, I press Win+L and lock my system. To do this with the mouse, you'd have to click the start button, move the cursor and hover over the shutdown menu, then click lock.

One of my complaints about Win8 is that the OS is basically the continuity thing he talks about. Some settings are split between the old control panel and the Metro UI's settings panel. For example, I wanted to create a new user account on my test machine. In Win7, go to control panel, user accounts, manage other accounts, click new user. In Win 8 I open the control panel and click user accounts, manage other accounts, but instead of a create new account option being there, it says create new account in PC Settings, which when clicked takes you to the metro full screen settings page.

Even in the desktop everything looks flat and provides no visual feedback as to what's interactive.