Neowin Interview with Brad Wardell About Start8 and Windows 8

Published on March 8, 2012 By Island Dog In WinCustomize News

Neowin has posted an interview with Stardock CEO Brad Wardell on the coming Windows 8 and the latest app from Stardock – Start8.

First, you have been vocal on your own personal blog site that while you think Windows 8 is great, the Metro interface is not. What is it specifically about the Metro UI that you don't care for?

It's a lot of different things. There are two big things in particular: First, Windows 8 is trying to jam two completely different user experiences into the same OS and make the user jump between them arbitrarily. Second, the Metro UI is not well suited to enabling users to organize their "stuff". PC users tend to have a lot of programs installed and the Metro UI tends to make it very hard to differentiate what is and isn't important. You can pin things to always be available visible but that's about it. There is no "folder" concept in Metro to organize your things.

Read the full interview at Neowin.net.

http://www.neowin.net/news/interview-stardock-ceo-brad-wardell-talks-about-start8

Comments (Page 2)

Neilo

on Mar 12, 2012

Errr, who's ranting? I think the thread just took a hard right is all mate, i don't think anyone is ranting on your comment.

It's not like you said "Long live Vista" or anything!!!

Uvah

on Mar 12, 2012

Neilo

reply 16

"Long live Vista"

Ewwwwww!!

taltamir

on Apr 13, 2012

Neilo

reply 1

But will MS listen?

Yes and no

Let us look back and vista.

Everyone warned MS what they were doing wrong. MS did not listen. Vista got a horrible reputation and nobody bought it. When nobody would buy it, then MS finally relented and gave people what they actually wanted in Win7, which is really just a slightly modified vista. (internally even it is called NT6.1 while vista is NT6.0)

MS will release Win8 with forced metro (NT7.0). Nobody will buy it and it will get a horrible rep. MS will then release Windows8 which fixes this (NT7.1)

Jafo

reply 12

.... didn't take any time at all before it was considered 'better' than XP.....

I am pretty sure it was actually in early beta when it was considered better than XP & Vista .

Jafo

on Apr 13, 2012

taltamir

reply 18

I am pretty sure it was actually in early beta when it was considered better than XP & Vista

Pre Beta, actually...

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