Windows 8 Release Preview

[STaRGaZeR]

I agree on most that has been said here, with a few remarks:

• Vista was AWESOME compared to XP. It was such a leap forward in stability and UI. It had one and only one problem: speed. You needed a very good PC to run it smoothly, forget laptops, so 90+% of people thought it was crap for a good reason. But if you had a powerful computer, Vista was the OS to get without a doubt.
• 7 is just Vista with very minor tweaks, mostly speed tweaks. But these tweaks are the key to bring the whole Vista experience to not so powerful computers and laptops, and so you have the Win7 situation today: almost everyone likes it.
• Win8 is a very good OS too: fast and stable. There is only one big problem with it: Metro and the UI in general. There are no words to describe that crap: it's fugly and absolutely non functional with KB+mouse. I hope it fails hard on the market, like Windows Phone.

One thing is certain though: explorer.exe gets worse and worse with each new OS, Metro being the last

EDIT: It's old, but this blog at MSDN is just awesome: how to fail hard at designing a user interface. It's almost a year old, but since we now know how Win8 is, it's twice the fun:





Microsoft knows what the problems are, but their solutions are completely off.