{"id":4183,"date":"2013-11-28T20:19:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T11:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=4183"},"modified":"2013-11-28T20:19:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T11:19:49","slug":"clicky-badness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/clicky-badness\/","title":{"rendered":"Clicky Badness"},"content":{"rendered":"

I keep reading about things I am supposed to love about Windows 8. \u00a0There are no doubt some features which make it not just a version of Windows 7 that only touch-screen-licking children can use. \u00a0Powershell version 3 (available for Windows 7) is integrated seamlessly with Windows 8, so this has my attention. \u00a0Also, I recall something about the hypervisor (virtualization manager, I guess) being more capable, and something about encryption being beefed up.<\/p>\n

So when I search the web for “Windows 8 Business” and get cruft 2.0 like the screenshot below, I get a little frustrated. \u00a0I’m a big-picture guy, see, and while I like the details, for me many details problems *go away* if you can attack the big picture. \u00a0So the big picture here is this question: \u00a0who benefits from this sort of interface? \u00a0You click and click and keep clicking just to read an article. \u00a0This one is only five items long, so presumably the seven (count ’em) slides in this set are the title page, plus five, plus an ad slide. \u00a0And guess what? \u00a0You are going to click on the ad slide.<\/p>\n

Now I don’t know if this is a click-through ad model, click ad model, or no ad model whatsoever, as I didn’t stick around to find out. \u00a0If you cannot or will not put your five points in an article using the English language, I am certainly not motivated to follow you around the web.<\/p>\n

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An example of web design for morons. Keep clicking, just keep clicking...<\/p><\/div>\n

Not only has this, the payload of the HTML page as rendered, not delivered me any value, neither has anything else. \u00a0This page is a content-free zone. \u00a0At the top (not included in this screen grab) is a banner with links to sign in or sign up. \u00a0Links to other content-free pages on the same site populate the right hand sidebar, and links to content-free pages on different sites round out the bottom of the page.<\/p>\n

Now I don’t wish to be too curmudgeonly toward Windows 8. \u00a0All the tiles and swiping just leave me cold. \u00a0I think it looks like crap, and I don’t get it. \u00a0I like XP just fine, but I understand it is tottering on the edge of functional obsolescence. \u00a0I adored Windows 98 SE, and for that matter Dos 6.22 with WfW 3.11, Macintosh System 7.x, and several of the now defunct Ubuntu interfaces. \u00a0I don’t care much for Unity or whatever it is called now, and don’t get me started on the hostile Pulse audio subsystem. \u00a0I liked Slackware when a 28.8 Sportster was all the rage. \u00a0I saw that startup sequence so many times that I remember Patrick Volkerding’s e-mail address, despite never having used it. \u00a0So the Windows 8 interface is not to my taste. \u00a0But apparently there is a lot of good stuff going on under the hood. \u00a0Big, important changes that, if better publicized, would probably help shake off the image of being the latest attemt by the Beast of Redmond to bend us toward its will, in this instance to force us to Converge, Converge, damn you! on to some Nokia-pimping, XP-eclipsing, NSA-friendly iPhone-killer.<\/p>\n

Most of us looking at this thing from a business (or at least systems administration) perspective are not amused by sliding tiles and “jam your thumb here to get to a useful interface”. \u00a0And in fact, there must be a way to get off of that touch-oriented (and ugly) Metro get-up. \u00a0But Microsoft seems none too eager to publicize it, and the website from which I grabbed the above shot will never convince me, because that interface is for idiots.<\/p>\n

Sorry this post took so long to type up. \u00a0My Wordstar 3.3 is acting up again.<\/p>\n

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I keep reading about things I am supposed to love about Windows 8. \u00a0There are no doubt some features which make it not just a version of Windows 7 that only touch-screen-licking children can use. \u00a0Powershell version 3 (available for Windows 7) is integrated seamlessly with Windows 8, so this has my attention. \u00a0Also, I recall something about the hypervisor (virtualization manager, I guess) being more capable, and something about encryption being beefed up.<\/p>\n

So when I search the web for “Windows 8 Business” and get cruft 2.0 like the screenshot below, I get a little frustrated. \u00a0I’m a big-picture guy, see, and while I like the details, for me many details problems *go away* if you can attack the big picture. \u00a0So the big picture here is … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}