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June 26, 2012

Windows 8's Failure Won't Help Linux

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet


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I’ve already looked in some depth at what’s wrong with Windows 8 in an earlier post. I summed up my experiences with Microsoft’s freshest operating system with a single word: awful. The new operating system contains too many unnecessary and seemingly arbitrary changes that do nothing to improve the user experience. The most glaring and irritating of these superfluous changes is the Metro user interface, a bolt-on aimed at tablet users that has gone on to infect the entire operating system.

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