Windows 8 is going to flop.

I was already extremely skeptical of Metro, and when they decided to hide the Start button, that seemed to me to be yet another bad decision.  But after reading this article and watching these videos, I'm no longer on the fence: Windows 8 is going to flop.

Imagine you're trying to buy a desktop or laptop this Fall, and everything has Windows 8.  You walk into a store to test out computers but the sales person is helping someone else, and this is what you run into:

Kids.

Seniors.


Middle-age.



Eventually, people will figure out how to get in and out of apps, and how to navigate.  Eventually.  I would hate to be the IT person of a company that upgraded to Windows 8.

But here's the thing: people HATE having to go through several steps to achieve their goal -- it's why we all create shortcuts, or quick-launch icons in our task bar.  Windows 8 makes it quite a lengthy process to perform some tasks.