Well I was really desperate to know when the Mac OSX Mountain Lion is coming up as I want to have a Mac. Sorry, I started with the Mac. I am debating with myself on whether I should buy a mac or not and why should I give up PC, what’s bad in it. So, I thought it’s all about what is going to be the future competition between mac osx and the ms windows. Both of these big players of the industry want to put them on the top, though I can’t say if they want to kill the other.
Being a Windows user from the day I put my hand on a computer, I thought to checkout if there is any way I can stick with the windows and get myself away from all the hype and the buzz of mac going on in the world pc market.
Alright, there you are, Microsoft folks, so you wanna roll out windows 8. Let me check what you guys got to offer us. I hope it’s not a change like Xp to Vista which just made people irritated. Actually what these PC guys do is just move the menus from here to there – their entire menu hierarchy just changes and I get pissed off trying to figure out where the hide those menus now. And other change, obviously you guys change your design and you call it your new version of windows. OK, you know I am angry with Microsoft.
Let me tell my installation experience. I saw this windows 8 consumer preview and thought ahh…..I don’t know if this preview video really makes anyone interested to buy Windows 8. For newbies or someone who just likes the flashy stuffs, rotating windows and pop-ups and animations, it might be quite interesting. For professionals, its like….alright stop jumping like a monkey (like Steve Ballmer jumps on stage) just show me what you really got.
I downloaded the installer. Took around 3 minutes to download. Then run it. It says…..20 hours remaining. Alright….there you go…. It needs to download the files over the internet. I’ve got 0.5 mbps internet speed. I kept the download running…
Download complete, couple of questions answered and the installation started. It was slow….ya, slow, I mean it still looks like microsoft product 
Installation Complete. My laptop restarts and I get this black screen with text preparing…. didn’t know what it was preparing for ….2%, 3%, ….26%….100% and again comes the text Preparing…….huh……
Preparing……Preparing…..I was just stuck with windows 8 preparing without knowing what the hell it was preparing for…….
Finally, some questions again, like wireless and blah blah ……then comes a screen with squares labeled apps, settings etc etc……No Desktop???
ahh…I find one square labeled Desktop. I go to desktop. No start button. Ufff…..how do I browse my applications ??? no icons…..ahh….PITA……I get my mouse pointer to the left corner where the windows icon used to be in Windows 7 and a crappy small pop-up comes, i try to click it but it goes away when I move my mouse……problems problems problems…..it’s totally different that Windows 7 in terms or user experience and the navigations….what solid functionality it provides is not clear…may be there isn’t much on that side. I can’t even find shutdown button…..what a crap…..
Overall I hate it….I hate Windows 8 at this point……it’s just a fund raiser update from Microsoft. I still miss my good old Xp. I’m gonna move to Mac.