It looked pretty awful on tablets, too, though. To simply add a widget/gadget (whatever its called on Win), you have to slide the screen, dock the screen, dock another screen, drag to other screen, drag screen....it's ridiculous and unnecessarily complicated.

On android, it's touch screen, choose widget, pick widget. TA-DA!

Microsoft seem to manage to release a turd every other OS release, Windows 95 was ok, Win 98 not much better but fixed with 98 SE then along came the truly awful ME but Microsoft redeemed themselves with XP only to really drop the ball with Vista, again they redeemed themselves with Windows 7 and now look to destroy their hard work with Windows 8.

I had Windows 8 running on my laptop for a short while, I say short while because I couldn't bear to use it any longer once my curiosity waned. They are trying to force upon us their vision of what the future of OS's should look like but their vision looks like it was drawn in crayon by kids at the early learning centre.

I don't want Metro, it looks awful, give me the option to boot into a classic desktop with the start menu and all the things that give me direct access to the programs I want. I don't want to have to swipe or click between day-glo bloocks to access simple things. Its fine for a tablet or touch screen but how many of us have touchscreens? I'd rather use iOS or Android on my tablet anyway, less bloat.

I fear Microsoft are digging a hole for themselves here, forcing things upon the consumer when many are not ready for this radical new approach, in trying to make things simple they have somehow managed to complicate things. I'm sticking to Windows 7 thanks.

If there's one thing I don't understand about Windows 8, it's the fact that it has both a tablet-like and desktop interface, which is just stupid. Surely they could have removed the tablet interface from the desktop SKU?

Also no proper start menu, wtf?

They should have followed in OSX steps. They brought features from iOS such like notification, easier mail and easier launching of apps. Whilst preserving the OSX original environment.

Microsoft just burn all their hard work.

If the steering wheel is up your ass and the brake is behind your head and the pedals outside the car, but the car has killer speed and style. Its dead on arrival.

Specs equal nothing if people don't enjoy using it.

Yeah I agree. I wanna test it out myself because the complains I read online sound trivial. To me it sounds like the complainers are afraid of change. I tend to hide my taskbar and shortcut things I use this way it keeps my desktop screen clear.

I know this guy should concentrate on making games as his job description says.

Lets all go play rage....or not, terrible frame rates, pop in environments, crappy graphics, boring as game, feels like you do the same thing over and over and over and over.

Carmack time to concentrate on what ya do.

How about you make a proper game for win 7?

it's almost comical how you bash a guy asking him to "make games" when his involvement with game creation is purely the tech.

He's not an artist, director or sound person.
He's into the raw code of things and how to manipulate that code to produce results.

If you're bashing him because of RAGE, blame it on your consoles, since the manufacturers don't normally allow mods/user created fixes without charging and such.

RAGE on the PC was a disaster, but to say it discredits J.C... please.

John Carmack doesn't need me to defend him,either, but your posts of ignorance bothers me to the point where I am urge to respond... his views on Win 8 are valid as he is an active developer of the Windows platform so it's his concern and his business.