Hacker News: windows8qhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=windows8qHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:55:31 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by windows8q in "Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile"]]>> Then came windows 8.1 and windows desktop 8 which was universally hated. The whole fullscreen apps debacle was just horrible and all the unnecessary restrictions on store apps for desktop made no one ever consider porting their desktop app to a store app. The whole phone and desktop app in one was a joke aswell since it was (and still is!) horrible implemented. Did I mention they broke compatibility from 8.1 to phone 8? I didn't even bother starting all over again for windows 8.1 i just straight up skipped it.

What was so horrible about it? I almost invested in a surface just off the strength of the UI; I rather liked that they were trying to merge desktop and tablet. Why was the experience so bad?

]]>Mon, 09 Oct 2017 20:20:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15437137windows8qhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15437137https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15437137