Mum tries out Windows 8 (2012)
Mum tries out Windows 8 (2012) is the first episode of Season 1 in the OSFirstTimer series.
Description[edit | edit source]
Warning, Diana was very computer illiterate at this point as this was the first video in the "mum tries out series". In our later videos she has become much better at using various operating systems.
Windows 8 has just been released but how will users react when they encounter it for the first time? Check out how a mother who is attached to windows xp responds when she attempts using windows 8 for the first time. Give her the most simplest of tasks and watch her struggle in frustration to complete them... well try to anyway before she literally slams the door on windows 8.
OS Info[edit | edit source]
Windows 8 is a major release of Windows, and it was developed by Microsoft. This release infamously replaces start menu with a start screen, as Microsoft decided to make Windows 8 more touch-friendly.
Tasks[edit | edit source]
- Log in (Already told how to log in)
- Check your emails without using an internet browser
- Get out of mail back to the apps screen
- Check the weather
- Make, save then open a text file
- Download and Install firefox
Diana's Review[edit | edit source]
- Diana did not like its interface as she described it as "cartoonish" and "childish".
- She struggles to go to the classic Windows desktop and back to the start screen as it was unintuitive to her.
- She feels that Windows 8 was the first Windows release, in which Philip made her try out later on.
- She calls the charms bar "hieroglyphs".
- She think people should be paid to use Windows 8.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Philip later hated this video as he didn't like how he treated her.
- Diana later had to switch to an Alienware laptop which ran Windows 8, but used Classic Shell to replace the start screen.
- Later on, Diana ranked Windows 8 as her third worst operating system she tested.
- This was Diana's first time trying out an operating system outside Windows XP.