Windows 8 - or at least equal to Windows 9?

Since you can not get away from Windows, I have experienced many generations 3.1 of the operating system from Windows.
Windows 95 and XP were innovative leaps, and Windows 7 can be seen as advancement.
Abere Unfortunately there were always pure marketing versions: Windows SE, Windows ME, Windows Vista - and now Windows. 8

What wants to achieve Microsoft? On the one hand, of course, re-entering the long-lost race for the tablet and smartphone market and merge platforms that simply do not fit together.

Mobile devices that are less suitable for working as rather for entertainment or for presentations and for short notes on the one hand, and the classic office and work computer that is to just work unintuitive, which you can customize needs and be especially operated needs.

No graphic no office worker, not a programmer wipe with your finger on the screen around (not to mention the annoying plasters) or constantly changes between two views of a user interface. You see, Microsoft self-proclaimed UX professionals and a mixture of BWLern and marketing experts have taken the reins. A working means a colorful, grobschlächtiges operating system in tile optics has become the best fit for a smartphone and perhaps also for a tablet - but just not the controlled with keyboard and mouse desktop computer.

Apps wherever you look, with limited functionality, the same look for her. Sure, desktop widgets have always existed and from time to time was a quick look at the market price, the latest news or the weather (if one has no window) helpful - but you need that on a computer with which you want to work productively? As a productive rapidly accessible Start menu is sacrificed menus replaced by overloaded ribbon bars that reduce the working area to a minimum height and a color palette define belonging in trendy clubs on the wall, but please not at a working medium.

Sure, by Apps and massive restrictions for developers and Voragbe a marketplace (Windows Store) will obtain the same control as Apple already has Microsoft. No more free software, sometime only programs that have been approved by Microsoft ...
the trend is to stop underage users, the complex applications (which operated for decades) overwhelm - there are now flashing colorful apps present the bits of information.

For home users this is perhaps an achievement for the professional user a slap in the face. Since usability is in weekend seminars taught and software that is devised by marketing and PR strategists, appropriate innovations come out here.

Who was satisfied with XP and Windows 7, for Windows 8 is in any case no further. And the fast start times you get through the rest mode (hibernation) on XP and Windows 7 without any problems out.

Eventually every software has peaked ... with Windows 8, it goes downhill again to the beginnings.