Why Windows 8 is moving forward for microsoft

The up and downs of Windows 8

Last October which windows first launch its new platform Windows 8, the news around the street is that it was widely dismissed by users as it was difficult to use and the new interface seems like idiotic for the conventional non touch screen. Microsoft also introduces a single app working environment which was what we like to use on our cell phone, also they have given a feature like you can open two programs simultaneously, now why would I need that? I am working on Windows since Windows 95 came out, and since then you can open as many applications(though it used to hang a lot that time, but improved later) on your desktop and for most of the time it works just find and give you the full advantage of multitasking rather than only allow to open two applications at a time.

I upgraded to Windows 8 that time, because it was fairly cheap and I was stuck with Windows Vista, which we all know was a crappy (but brave) dish from Microsoft.

After using the metro UI for the first time, I hated it. My laptop is old, it don't have the touch, I am not use to the single app environment , luckily Microsoft does include a desktop mode without start button but you can use bring your start button back, I have mentioned my detail experience  in this post.

So why Windows 8 is moving forward ?

It seems very unpractical and a desperate attempt to compete with Google, and it seems like Microsoft had lost it direction in OS making, well it turns of the zillion dollar company don't send billion dollars in people salary just for nothing. Soon after the launch of Windows 8 the market got its first major supply of touch screen PC's, the ultra light weight PC which were still not compromising on performance. Well from the most of the domestic users view, you don't have to open 10 applications at once and work on that, hence a single app window mode or multitasking two windows. The battery life increase considerably a regular ultrabook with 4th generation i5 processor an offering 8.5 hours of battery life, saving power on the item are necessary to provide such high battery life with uncompromised performance.

It certainly don't make much difference for the users who were already using Windows 7 or for those whom PC is so old that you can't get drivers for Windows 8. (Windows 7 and Some Windows Vista   

For the users who still have their old laptops and desktop, there is always the option of using the desktop mode, like what I have been doing since Windows 8 launch.

Overall Windows 8 seems like a chaos in the beginning but later emerge as a well though operating system, as the times are changing now and Microsoft certainly don't want to stagnate, like what happen to RIM and its flagship brand blackberry.

The Challenges with windows 8

With the rise of mobile devices the laptop and desktop market saw a restrictive growth where Windows OS was at large, and because Microsoft works on software as a product pattern, the other manufacturers are free to offer substandard products to run Windows 8, which damages its reputation, like what apple don't do.

The market, the Microsoft marketplace is still the least populated market space, people don't simply build application for Microsoft, I think the major reason is that their flagship IDE Visual Studio for dotnet is fairly expensive which led to reduce sale of Windows 8 phone means even lesser opportunity for a windows developer to earn from the application he/she makes, it is a negative feedback loop.

Though Microsoft is seriously supporting its community promise program, but it should really think about making its development platform more accessible to all the developers.