Windows 8: a 'Christmas Gift For Someone You Hate' 740
zacharye writes "Microsoft is no stranger to criticism these days, and the company's new Windows 8 platform is once again the target of a scathing review from a high-profile user. Well-known Internet entrepreneur and MIT professor Philip Greenspun handed Windows 8 one of its most damning reviews yet earlier this week, calling the new operating system a 'Christmas gift for someone you hate.' Greenspun panned almost every aspect of Microsoft's new software, noting that Microsoft had four years to study Android and more than five to examine iOS, but still couldn't build a usable tablet experience..."
but isn't that a somewhat expensive (Score:5, Funny)
way of expressing said sentiment?
I've always found Dog Crap in a Box(TM) to be both economical AND effective at communicate feelings of loathing and hatred. It's really easy to get book rates on the postage, too.
Re:but isn't that a somewhat expensive (Score:5, Funny)
I think the Windows 8 approach reminds me more of a tribe in Africa that praises killing their enemies by first 'fattening them with friendship'. With Windows 8, they will think the gift was an act of good will and will continue to use it under that impression, never realizing that they're slowly dying in the process.
It's about magnitude (Score:2, Funny)
It's about expressing the amount of hate you feel for the person. It's like expressing love only different.
For instance if you buy your love a bar of chocolate for an anniversary, it will express affection in an underwhelming way, perhaps leading them to believe your affection is as underwhelming as the effort that went into the gift.
Now on the other hand if you go all out and treat them to weekly massage for a year at the local spa so they eventually elope with the sexy massage therapist, then that's a whole other level of showing affection.
Re:but isn't that a somewhat expensive (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Android is NOT a useable tablet experience (Score:2, Funny)
Well I think all tablets suck including your precious iPad. Anything outside of that wonderful OS called Emacs is beyond usable.
Re:How about a direct link to the original article (Score:4, Funny)
Yay, another article telling us a microsoft product is going to murder your children, drive us off the fiscal cliff, bomb Iran, and infect everyone else with AIDS... because it doesn't have a button where you'd want it. The horror.
Re:That bad? (Score:5, Funny)
You felt so strongly that the "cool" Windows 8 UI is the way of the future and that people who prefer the "old, lame way" are "lazy, old dogs" that you just had to register a Slashdot account today to say it. I respect the strength of your convictions.
This is nothing new for Microsoft (Score:5, Funny)
They have a habit of missing the boat on things and then when they realize it, they compensate by embracing it and over doing it. A perfect example was the Web. They completely missed the boat on it in the mid 90's and when they realized it, they reacted by reworking everything they could to be based on http/html and the result was a mess. This time they completely got it wrong on smart phones and tablets and now they are over compensating by trying to turn a desktop into a tablet.
Apple seems to be getting it right by moving the best features of the tablet to the desk top but doing it in a way that makes sense. For example, gestures are great on both, but when it comes to the desktop, you should use a proxy surface such as a touch pad rather than the screen itself. The first fucker that jabs his finger into my monitor to move a window is going to lose it :)
Re:How about a direct link to the original article (Score:4, Funny)
Relax kid, I'm not kicking your dog. Or worse, defending a microsoft product.
Re:How about a direct link to the original article (Score:3, Funny)
Why do I never have mod points when I need them? +1
Re:but isn't that a somewhat expensive (Score:5, Funny)
Why bother finding a dog?
Re:but isn't that a somewhat expensive (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:How about a direct link to the original article (Score:5, Funny)
Wait, wait! AC is talking to itself again! It's so confusing. Maybe we need "first AC" and "second AC" but no, then I suppose it wouldn't be anonymous. In the meantime, it sounds like AC is very confused...
Re:How about a direct link to the original article (Score:4, Funny)
Why is this sad? Was the collapse of the Ottoman Empire sad? The breakup of the British Empire? Relax, pop yourself a bag of popcorn, and enjoy the show -- it's been a long time coming and worth every minute.
Re:How about a direct link to the original article (Score:2, Funny)
Re:How about a direct link to the original article (Score:4, Funny)
Does AC have parents? How could we tell? They too would have to be AC. AC is indeed his own Grandpaw. Or hers. Its.