Windows 9 pundits journalist & experts know nothing about real work – it seems
Windows 7 on PC desktops and laptops is in my personal view a very good operating system. I don´t claim to be any sort of OS expert in programming or anything. But I am user on a daily basis of Windows 7 with experience in using windows 8 as well. Like basically any living being these days who have used the two OS softwares.
What Pundits on blogs an magazines write about the future of Windows 9 from Microsoft, is in some way a lot of … talk – which unfortunately can slip into board rooms at let say Microsoft. Why is it a lot of … talk? Well, they continue to write in very small letters what they think is an understanding of so-called ”pro power users”. So they don’t offend them 😉 But treat them as a minority who need to adjust to the new world. But which world is that? Is a world of choices a bad world in the world of computers?
No! – A world of choice is exactly what is needed. Not a one way street choice.
Regardless of what these pundits and Microsoft developers responsible for windows 8 might think, the world is not entirely hooked up on just one rule in how to work on a computer on a daily basis. The slow pace of selling upgrades to Windows 8 should be a flag in their face.
Not only me and others in my line of work, have a workflow of using multiple programs open at the same time on both one screen and multiple of screens. The ability to easily work with multiple programs and screens is what power using is all about.
A power user will easily have a minimum of two mayor programs open at any given time during a work day. For example I will have my e-mail program, my Graphics program such as CorelDRAW, Corel PHOTO-PAINT and Corel PAINTER open at the same time. And a web browser. Sometimes an office program and accounting program open temporarily. Being a self-employed freelancer that many are today, this is not so uncommon set up during a days work. To start with. Sometimes I will open and close down my website program to update and edit my website.
I can go on an on about this. Because power using and normal use is WORK. And how to get work done comfortably. I know everyone seems to love Apps, but personally to me apps of today give me a low blood sugar level symptom – I get irritated. Just try out Facebook apps on either an iphone or windows phone. Or try out Flash on any phone and it doesn’t work. Regardless if Flash is soon obsolete, it is still in use. HTML5 might be perfect, but we are not quite there yet. And touch screen of today is not every persons cup of tea.
I hate fingers all over the screen for example – because the screen is my canvas. I am an illustrator, artist and graphic designer – and don’t come along with your fingers dancing over my screen. Full stop.
Now, if the Pundits such as Jared Newman at PC World mag blog, Tom Hobbs at Seattle based Teague, Raluca Budiu at Nielsen Norman Group discuss and ponder in the article in PC World > would wake up and smell the coffee from their offices at fancy streets addresses in Seattle and Palo Alto or wherever they sit, they would see the world isn’t so tiny as they might believe. What they see as the Big world is quite a small world perspective.
That´s just my two cents.
Now back to work and get some work done so I can pay my bills.
Ps. Dont get me wrong. I have nothing against these people mentioned and unmentioned, they have their opinion based on something. I just happen to disagree – and Windows 8 got me unhappy to start with, and my windows phone I might love, but suddenly the last few days I have started to think my next phone will be an android. Thats what Windows 8 have given me…
Microsoft have to get their act together also.
Stefan Lindblad
Illustrator, artist & graphic designer
www.canvas.nu
Well said Stefan. I too almost always have four or five programs open simultaneously – often more.
And touch-screens covered in fingerprints is fast becoming a pet hate.
”Pet hate” is a good frase for it 🙂
Thank you Roy,
With all the app-hype, regardless if its a sole hype or the eternal future, its going too far. As it is now, the Start page on Win 8, many of the apps already installed, such as the email program, wont allow POP email. What is that all about. A mess. And so user-none-friendly. And the slick design is one thing, but all though I like minimalism too, it have gone to far. I shiver with the sheer thought of having one program taking up the whole screen, like win 8 start page.