Windows8, the chaotic hybrid

has been trying to evaluate Windows 8 from the perspective of being as fair and objective as possible. As everyone knows, this is actually a phase. As long as it is a comment, the essential requirement is that there must be an attitude. For Win8, I have previously published dissatisfied comments, and the results have been attacked by many people: your soft media is eating by Microsoft Windows, how to say that Windows is not good … … Cheng can be said that it is really difficult to say.

The soft media was first formed in the 2007 Vista home, Vista optimization master, nothing else, originally chose to do this, purely for interest. Later, with Win7 optimization master, Win7 home, and then Win8 home and Win8 optimization masters to be launched next week, all this is due to our love and pursuit of computer operating system.

When you like a thing, you don't just like love. You only see each other's good. When you live at home, you find that the place where you thought you were complementary is actually not interested. Therefore, every time I write an article on a website such as IT House with a stupid vest, I always remind myself to take a few steps back, carefully look at the thing to comment, and try to mix my mind with my own intuition. Think about it.

So, today I want to talk about Win8, Microsoft's next-generation operating system, RTM at the end of July, and the official system of retail sales in October.

I think he is a chaotic hybrid.

This is not a swearing and vulgarity with contempt, but an objective description. For this point of view, I have the following explanation ——

1. For computers, Win8 It’s a freak, it’s a contradiction.

When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, it also planned the iPad. Jobs didn’t use Mac OS X on his existing Apple computer. Developed iOS, why? Can't because Apple's current market value is the boss, you have to say that Apple's idea must be right. But in this matter, I think Apple is responsible for this consideration. I dare not say that it is correct. Maybe Mac OS will start to merge with iOS in the future, but in 2007 it is responsible for supporting mobile devices with a new system iOS.

Microsoft always keeps its own Office and Windows as a strategic strategy for its own company. This is not Microsoft's fault. Any company from the start-up innovation to middle-aged is to defend Mainly in business, just like people. Google is also gradually entering middle age. In the near future, Apple will also be like this. This is an unbreakable fate. It will be old and sick, and it will go from infants and youngsters to young adults to mature middle-aged and sunset red.

Microsoft launched Windows 8 in response to Apple and Google Android pressures five years later. First, the response rate is too slow. Second, the products launched are really nondescript.

For mobile operating systems and tablet operating systems, Windows 8 is definitely better than Win7. I believe that friends who have experienced Windows Phone 7.5 and Samsung 7 Series Win8 tablets will agree that Win8 is more suitable for touch than Win7. It is also more energy-efficient and smooth.

However, what I want to say here is that for PCs (desktops + non-touch notebooks), Win8 is a freak, full-screen Metro application and window program mixed together, very nondescript.

For example, when you double-click on an image in Explorer and open a picture with a slow full-screen Metro program, you have a dead heart. Of course, I believe Microsoft will definitely put it in the Win8 system. The photo defaults to the old “Windows Photo Viewer”.

As we all know, the biggest difference between Microsoft's Windows and Apple is that it is open, Microsoft's Windows is over-opened, and suddenly the Win8 app store learns Apple's absolute closure, and then for compatibility and over-hybrid, then a hybrid hybrid. The new start interface, absolutely open + absolutely closed, mixed into a new generation of Win8.

For developers, the new Metro application development will make programmers who are used to Win32 development rush to the most confused, lost more permissions, close to the new development language, and then lost C++ development Windows The super performance of the software. Everything is bound by Microsoft.

Admit that being restrained is not necessarily a bad thing, but Microsoft is making such a big change, and it is a very different decision to move the application from full openness to complete closure.

If you continue the system architecture of Win7, Formalization is more suitable for the operation and switching management of multitasking programs, you can fully develop Windows Metro 1.0 as the operating system of mobile devices. But Microsoft doesn't, on a PC, on a server, a hybrid of Windows 8 makes users and developers feel at a loss.

Is it going to continue to develop software and games under Win32, or to enter low-performance Windows Metro application development?

2, Microsoft's Win8 is a transitional product

Microsoft's operating system has a strange fate, a successful generation, a failure of a generation, and then cycle.

Of course, it is not because of this fate that Win8 is a short-lived transition product.

Win8 is an experimental product. It is Microsoft's attempt to find out the direction. It uses Win8 to explore the road. If the user accepts it, it is wonderful. If the user is not good, then Windows Next will be launched. As for whether Windows Next is Windows 8.5 or Windows 9, this code is meaningless, and in the end there will be a replacement soon.

Microsoft is anxious to see three feedbacks, one is feedback from end users, one is feedback from cooperative PC hardware vendors, and the other is feedback on application development of this ecosystem.

The three complement each other, and which one is short will fail.

3, I will upgrade to Win8

Microsoft's own operating system development strength is very strong, after using Mac OS X, a fair comparison, after performance and long time use In terms of smoothness, it is still Windows leading.

Win8 actually does a lot of great improvements, including support for the ARM chip architecture, including getting all the devices, including more energy efficient, including cloud sync configuration … …

I have been using Win8 versions for a long time last year, and I have witnessed a lot of changes in design and back and forth. In addition to the software software experience, I have already given up Win7.

This article says that Win8 is a contradiction. It does not mean that I want to completely deny him. I just pointed out that Microsoft itself is also confused about the open and closed contradictions. The change of Win8 has a great suddenness to the industry. Chains are destructive and reorganized, and at the same time, sudden changes in user habits are risky.

No matter what kind of Win8 is, there are some things that need to remind Microsoft. Only when your eyes are developing products for human progress, not for the sake of profit, you can make a real change. The product, like the original Bill Gates DOS, Windows 1.0, Windows 95.

Jobs is a madman who changed the world. Now Microsoft lacks this temperament. Microsoft is now just a middle-aged business machine.

The next Microsoft, in fact, is already Apple, but everyone is still looking forward to who can change the world again.