Microsoft's Windows Chief On Windows 8: You're Doing It Wrong!

Mark Hachman, ReadWriteWeb
Fri, 12/14/2012 - 1:22pm

It can take days to weeks for users to adjust to Windows 8, the new head of Windows product development admits in a recent interview. What's wrong with this picture? In an interview with the MIT Technology Review, Julie Larson-Green explained that most users "don't have trouble upfront" with Microsoft's new operating system.

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