Computer professionals may not be the best source for information ...

Windows 8 has arrived and you might be wondering whether it is something for you to consider. Maybe you are not a technology expert so you are thinking about who to ask for advice on whether to upgrade your computer to Windows 8 or buy a Windows 8 computer. Here?s my advice about who not to ask:

• Don?t ask the sales clerks in a computer store. In my experience, they don?t know much about Windows 8 and what they do know is often wrong. By the way, that includes a new Microsoft store that I visited as well. And, of course, the job of sales clerks is, well, to sell.
• Don?t ask computer professionals unless you know them well enough to judge how much they understand about what a non-expert wants from a computer. Computer professionals usually think everybody loves tinkering with settings and installing and configuring things. A computer problem that might take them a few minutes to deal with might very well completely stump an average PC user. I can tell you from personal experience that a lot of technology types simply won?t believe that millions of people have no clue whatsoever about how Windows works and have not the slightest desire to find out. The professionals find it hard to believe that a subject that interests them so much just turns a lot of people off.
• Avoid experts on the Internet unless they have a proven record of understanding consumer needs. Take into account that most computer professionals who post on the Internet have ties with Microsoft or some other big technology company and have vested interests. For example, although they may not work for Microsoft, the Windows ecosystem is so pervasive that a large number of technology professionals owe their living to some aspect of Windows. No matter how they may try to be fair and unprejudiced in their judgments about Windows, they can?t afford to annoy Microsoft very much. Microsoft management can be very vindictive.
• Be wary of opinions from people who work all day at a computer. Their computer needs are very different from a home PC user. An example of this is all the complaining that came from tech journalists who said that the iPad was no good because they couldn?t type on it all day long. Millions of ordinary people with iPads have not found this to be of any relevance.

If you are at all curious about Windows 8, I think you will find an article called Seven Essential Things You Need to Know about Windows 8 and Windows RT worth reading. It is one of the articles that I write every week at Gizmo?s Tech Tips. I think the article will answer a lot of the questions you might have about Windows 8 and the tablet operating system Windows RT. It?s not long ? give it a look.

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