Windows 8.1 - The next great thing?
Windows 8 is a subject that is never far from my mind when doing any blog post, so today it was pretty nice to see the first look of Windows 8.1 drop. Microsoft has always been the but of bad Usability jokes, and my biggest complaint was that Windows 8 felt like a really great idea, gone half way there. I shouldn't have been surprised as that is classic Microsoft. That is, put something out, get user feedback and then in the next release fix it. 95 = ok 98 = great ME = DISASTER XP = God's gift to the PC Vista = DISASTER 7 = Great 8 = Disaster 8.1 = Great? I digress. This post really isn't a run through of all the latest features and my thoughts on them, partly because of time limitations, and partly because all first look videos are little more than marketing spin, so the reality will drop later when hands on tests start. But what is apparent is that Microsoft seems to have got maybe 80% of the way towards the vision that was Windows 8. Sure, a lot of thes...