Gadgehit.com writes: "After the recent revelation that Valve’s Gabe Newell thinks Windows 8 is a catastrophe, another prominent game developer has spoken out about the upcoming operating system. In his extremely long keynote at this year’s QuakeCon, John Carmack co-founder of id Software, mentioned the operating system saying that there was nothing exciting about Windows 8"
The cloud storage platform will drop support for older versions of Windows in early 2022.
Microsoft responded with Windows 8 and its Surface RT tablet.
Though the feature will likely not be at launch.
Windows 8 looks like it will be overlooked by the majority of people. I think the tablet and phone devices may do well, but it feels like Windows 8 for PC will be a bit of a failure.
Yeah him and me both, I tried the beta on my PC and I'm a tech guy, and I found it to be Awful, the worst thing I have ever done to my computer by far... LoL
it's really that bad, things are all stupid in the OS simply things like finding your start menu and going back are made so difficult that it's ridiculous - I don't know who's working on this at Microsoft but fire everyone and start over..
much like Vista was, Windows 8 is a serious down grade to Windows 7...
-and if you are happy with windows 7, whatever you do stay far away from windows 8 -wait for windows 9 when all these stupid things will be fixed and the O.S. will actually be an upgrade to your current system.
I keeo hearing all of these complaints about Windows 8 and it makes you think it must be terrible. But if you read the complaints, it's all about the interface. People that go into the OSs speed and efficiency say it definitely faster. But the interface makes it terrible. There's no start button. I saw a demo where it was hidden in the corner. Move the mouse over and it pops out. Just like it does on my PC. Which is using XP.
Some people actually don't like it. A lot are just complaining with the crowd. But if there are real complaints, like it crashes constantly or it has security issues please talk about that. All of this whining about the interface makes me believe it's fine.
And Carmack saying they milked XP and they plan to milk 7 is not as bad as the headline sounds. Developers say that they want generations to last all of the time. It makes their jobs easier.
he cant even make a proper game in windows 7
Jump on the bandwagon, John.