The long-awaited operating system is now finally available around the world.
The user testing phase for Windows 8, which launches worldwide today, took an accumulative of 1.2 billion hours.
Microsoft Windows chief Steven Sinofsky stressed during yesterday's Windows 8 launch event that "This is the best release of Windows ever," as well as the fact that it took 1.24 billion hours of pre-release testing across 190 countries.
When discussing Microsoft's Surface tablet-PC hybrid, as well as Windows 8's touch interface, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said, "Windows 8 shatters perceptions of what a PC is." Microsoft also spoke about its confidence that Windows 7's success in business will be matched by its successor. So far, the software giant has sold 670 million Window 7 licenses to business and consumers, Sinofksy confirmed. "More than half of enterprises use Windows 7."
In order to get Windows 8 off to a good start in the business division, Sinofsky said that 1,000 new PCs have been certified to work with the operating system.
Sinofsky went on to discuss the new Windows Store, which he says has more apps than any competing app store upon its launch. That said, Microsoft offers less than 10,000 apps, while Google and Apple deliver more than 700,000 apps for their own platforms. "Developers are working fast and furiously to stock the shelves of the new Windows Store," Ballmer said. "In the case of Windows 8, seeing, touching, clicking and swiping is really believing."
It literally takes only a few lines of code....
Why be a stubborn jack a s about it and just let people decide what they want?
It literally takes only a few lines of code....
Why be a stubborn jack a s about it and just let people decide what they want?
...and another 1.2 billion hours of testing
No issues here either. After a while I stopped missing the start menu, which is one of the main complains. At least the new UI is very fluid and it switches back and forth without slowing you down. I won't upgrade yet until I build my new rig sometime next year...which is the same thing I did with W7 - I waited half a year until I was ready to build a new PC so it felt nice and fresh.
After you update Vista to the current version the final product ends up performing and acting a lot like Win 7. Vista sucked at first but in the end was fine. Having said that... Win 7 worked from the get go and it's ease to install makes it a winner over Vista in my book.
As far as Win 8... we'll see.
Its all about the App store. No new UI down are throats means less $$$$ for them.
Regardless of allthe pactes MS put out for Vista it still wasn't able to patch the memory leakage issue without a rework of the entire kernel structure.
Just use the Classic Shell, and disable left/right popups through registry.
Or...if people work a standard 2080 hours a year (it'd be nice...) it's about half a million people testing for a year.
Not certain if I believe 1.2 Billion hours of testing.
You can pin any programme (including things like the control panel, the my computer link where all your drives are displayed, config programmes for devices etc.) to the start interface in win 8 anyway, just find the programme .exe right click and select "pin to start". A single full screen of the start interface holds 50+ small icons at 1600x900 resolution and can be accessed via one press of the windows key.
Really don't get what all the fuss is about...
If you spend 1 THOUSAND hours testing your software and find that it does not meet the requirements of your customers: change the software.
But if you spend 1 BILLION hours testing your software and find that it does not meet the requirements of your customers: realize that you can't please these customers and it's time to change your customers.