News Windows 8 two-year support countdown begins Friday

Maybe the reason people resist so much is because changes have been made that they don't agree with, in the case of Vista it was changes in the way Windows interacts with hardware.
And the case with 8 is that people are being forced to learn and fit into the OS, not the other way around. If you bought a new suit and it was to small you wouldn't be happy if you had to lose a few pounds just because it doesn't come in a bigger size.

The point is when you expect people to change to fit your product no matter how good it is, the majority are just going to reject it. Products need to fit around us, not the other way around.

 

Note found on someone's desk at work:



Are we fitting products around people yet?

 

If that person doesn't know how to start word after 18 years of launching programs in the same manner what makes you think they will know what to do once word starts

 

She probably types faster than either of us.

On Windows 8 it would have been the first thing she sees on boot: big colourful squares for the whole Office suite. Perhaps Windows 8 is fitting the product around people, just not around us elitist geeky snobs.

 

Wana place bets on how long it would take her to actually see the big colourful squares for the whole Office suite, i bet she would even mouse over it and not know

 

I think the answer might surprise you. One colleague I know recently bought a Surface, and she's away. She loves it. The Start Screen makes a lot more sense to her, because it is basically like the springboard on a smartphone.

But: thread drift. Back on topic...