14 DAY TRIAL // Windows 8.1 Update is Microsoft’s latest bet in the OS market and the company hopes that more users would give it a try, especially after it announced that this new release is mandatory for everyone running Windows 8.1.
While Windows 8.1 Update sure comes to address a number of issues reported in previous builds by plenty of adopters, nobody can ignore the fact that Microsoft is actually going in reverse and now trying to fix some of the things is actually messed up with the previous Windows releases.
Windows 8.1 Update makes the platform altogether more mouse-friendly, allowing users to launch Metro apps from the taskbar and close them with just one click through the dedicated title bar and minimize and close buttons.
At the same time, the Start screen also has new options to shut down and reboot the device faster, while the operating system boots directly to desktop when installed on a PC.
Users, however, do not seem impressed and claim that most of these features were supposed to be part of modern Windows from the very beginning, but Microsoft has still delayed bringing them to adopters.
Here are a few comments posted on the first Windows 8.1 Update video posted on YouTube and feel free to add your own in the comment box after the jump:
“Happy to see Microsoft is finding its way again. Why ‘fix’ something that wasn't broken in Windows 7.”
“Microsoft seem to think that touchscreen is so much better and the only reason people are complaining is because they don't have touchscreen enabled computers yet, most people prefer keyboard and mouse so you have to cater to those people as well. I know I’d get sick of having to move my arm all over the dirty fingerprint ridden screen as opposed to resting my hand on a mouse.”
“Being a faithful Windows user for more than 15 years now... it’s embarrassing to see that MS left out these key windows features from Win 8. You had to make a new version of Windows to introduce ‘Close’ Minimize and Power Button? COME ON! I am ashamed now.”
“’Thanks’ for putting back the useful features you took away Microsoft. Modern UI looks better now.”
“Wow... it only took them how long... 2 years to realize that? I’m impressed :)”
“Microsoft has become a real joke. They are telling users that they have introduced something new when they have removed it in the previous version (do they have no testers?). If they do not change their customer relationship soon they will not only loose the phone market.”