I know it seems Iโm on an anti-Windows 8 crusade, and in a way I am. The app store model is a threat to open computing, and the interface is just absolutely abysmal.
In a way, itโs more personal than that. Windows 7 is a great OS for getting work done. Itโs fast, stable, and multi-tasks like a dream. Windows are resizable and if I want to โ which I very, very often do โย I can see more than one thing at a time.
I donโt want to be forced in the future to use a single-tasking always-full-screen OS where I am as fucking slow as everyone else. Because I work quickly and I assimilate a lot of information at once, a real multi-tasking OS makes me so much faster than other people.
Windows 8 would Harrison Bergeron my ass right quick.
Windows 8 or any Windows 8-like OS would be the equivalent of tying two five-pound bricks to my ankles and asking me to compete in a marathon.
Uh-uh. Not. Gonna. Do it.