The departure of Steve Sinofsky so soon after the launch of
Windows 8 was not a vote of confidence by the maker of the world’s largest
operating system. But according to a Forbes report is it a sign of Microsoft‘s
imminent collapse?
Last week, usability expert Jakob Nielsen wrote a
devastating critique of Windows 8 on his Alertbox blog. He writes, “One of the
worst aspects of Windows 8 for power users is that the product’s very name has
become a misnomer. ‘Windows’ no longer supports multiple windows on the
screen.… When users can’t view several windows simultaneously, they must keep
information from one window in short-term memory while they activate another
window. This is problematic for two reasons. First, human short-term memory is
notoriously weak, and second, the very task of having to manipulate a
window—instead of simply glancing at one that’s already open—further taxes the
user’s cognitive resources….”
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