WIndows 8 Preview: is their such thing as too user friendly?

Microsoft has around a 90% install base for people that use computers so they can basically set the trend. I feel that this new OS is too simple because I believe they are trying to take back some of the market share they lost from Apple. I believe they are trying to capitalize on the young generation and look hip to them. In my opinion younger generation like the simplicity Apple has to offer, and they do like stuff that is stylistic. This simple OS can help attract people that aren’t used to computers and like simplicity because if they can attract this market it can help increase their install base. This is all fine and dandy but I believe that Microsoft is dumbing down the product too much I believe that most users are not going to be that impressed because we don’t like stuff dumb down too much. The thing that the core audience wants is to innovate the OS and increase the performance as long as you increase performance, and add other stuff to make OS be more efficient is what we want. If Microsoft starts taking the Apple approach on their products I believe they are dumbing it down too much. The thing that makes Microsoft attractive too most is that its not to dumb down like Apple OS and you have more freedom to do what you want and not that many limitations, and the familiarity we have with the product.

Microsoft has to stop dumbing down the product like calling programs “apps” I think that it is silly to call programs apps. The reason for that is because in today’s tech world most people associate the word “apps” with programs that people run on their smartphone and tablets. Even though you can go back to Windows 7 setting with the OS I believe that they should be putting more time and effort to making the OS run more smoothly, adding better security, and less crashing. This OS is best suited for Microsoft’s Windows phone, and future tablets. The simplicity of this OS would really benefit tablets because tablets are like mini computers. If they can effectively make Windows 8 look and run this smooth on tablets and smartphones. For tablets it can make a lot of people jump to Windows based tablets and leave Apple’s Ipads and Android based tablets. The simplicity of Windows 8 on tablets looks really great because if the experience is similar to Windows Phone mango, I will be really impressed. I am really interested to see how the ecosystem will work like how smooth and effective having Microsoft products work during Windows 8. I hope that Microsoft help builds ecosystem like how they are implementing skydrive on Microsoft based products. It will be interesting to see how they integrate Windows 8 to Xbox, Windows Phone, tablets, and other Window products.

In my opinion Windows 8 is too simple for PC users because even though LiveTiles are neat I do not want to use it while I am on my pc because I do not need my PC to be dumbed down. Windows 8 will be really great for tablets and Window phones because LiveTiles are simple and more suited for those devices. Overall, I think it is somewhat a mistake for Microsoft to dumb down Windows 8, but I do think they are doing the right thing because they can increase the install base, and take bake some users from Apple.