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I have been playing around with the developer build of Windows 8 for the better part of the day, and I have to say I'm intrigued. I've been a Mac user for almost 6 years now, and I don't think that's going to change any time soon.
OS X Lion is superior to Windows 8 in my opinion, as far as a desktop/laptop OS goes. Windows 8 seems like a poor fit on a system that uses a keyboard and mouse instead of a touchscreen. Yes, you can enter the "traditional" Windows interface and have an experience very similar to Windows 7, but Windows 8 tries as hard as it can, whenever it can, to shunt the user back into its Metro UI. On a desktop, at least to me, the Metro UI is infuriating. All apps are fullscreen, but unlike Lion which allows you to do things like toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode, and pull up the menu bar while in fullscreen mode, Windows 8 leaves the user with no such options (or at least no such clearly visible options.
On the other hand, I think that Windows 8 may be the best tablet OS I have seen to date. It looks to be better that iOS 5 (at least from what Apple has shown of iOS 5). I have had the iPad since it first came out, and upgraded to the iPad 2 as soon as it was available. I am a big fan of tablets and I believe that the iPad with iOS is currently the best tablet on the market. If Apple doesn't seriously step up their game, that will soon change. The Metro UI is extremely tablet/finger friendly. If you want, you can stay in the Metro UI and use a Windows 8 tablet much like an iPad, but if you need to do something within "regular windows" you have that option. (I think apple is moving towards this, especially since Lion seems like it would be very tablet friendly with all of it's multitouch features, launchpad, and fullscreen apps. They just need to unify the two soon, before Windows 8 can gain too much traction). I also really like how you can run two "fullscreen" apps in the Metro UI side by side, where each app takes up half of the screen. That's a feature I've been wanting in the iPad since the beginning.
Bottom Line: Microsoft is delivering an OS with all of the usability of a Tablet OS, but all of the functionality of a desktop OS (like I said before, works great on the Tablet, hate it as a desktop OS). Unless Apple steps up it's game (by allowing things like two apps running on a screen simultaneously in iOS and/or allowing users to run some form of OS X on the iPad if they choose too) my next tablet may run Windows 8...
OS X Lion is superior to Windows 8 in my opinion, as far as a desktop/laptop OS goes. Windows 8 seems like a poor fit on a system that uses a keyboard and mouse instead of a touchscreen. Yes, you can enter the "traditional" Windows interface and have an experience very similar to Windows 7, but Windows 8 tries as hard as it can, whenever it can, to shunt the user back into its Metro UI. On a desktop, at least to me, the Metro UI is infuriating. All apps are fullscreen, but unlike Lion which allows you to do things like toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode, and pull up the menu bar while in fullscreen mode, Windows 8 leaves the user with no such options (or at least no such clearly visible options.
On the other hand, I think that Windows 8 may be the best tablet OS I have seen to date. It looks to be better that iOS 5 (at least from what Apple has shown of iOS 5). I have had the iPad since it first came out, and upgraded to the iPad 2 as soon as it was available. I am a big fan of tablets and I believe that the iPad with iOS is currently the best tablet on the market. If Apple doesn't seriously step up their game, that will soon change. The Metro UI is extremely tablet/finger friendly. If you want, you can stay in the Metro UI and use a Windows 8 tablet much like an iPad, but if you need to do something within "regular windows" you have that option. (I think apple is moving towards this, especially since Lion seems like it would be very tablet friendly with all of it's multitouch features, launchpad, and fullscreen apps. They just need to unify the two soon, before Windows 8 can gain too much traction). I also really like how you can run two "fullscreen" apps in the Metro UI side by side, where each app takes up half of the screen. That's a feature I've been wanting in the iPad since the beginning.
Bottom Line: Microsoft is delivering an OS with all of the usability of a Tablet OS, but all of the functionality of a desktop OS (like I said before, works great on the Tablet, hate it as a desktop OS). Unless Apple steps up it's game (by allowing things like two apps running on a screen simultaneously in iOS and/or allowing users to run some form of OS X on the iPad if they choose too) my next tablet may run Windows 8...