Been using 8 since Christmas Eve along withe Start8. It's a shame that MS didn't give us this option out of the box. "Metro" is a mess and poorly integrated which takes so much away from the core of the product.
Vista was a new OS. Most of the "bad experiences" were 3rd party drivers, apps or the lack of compatability
Vista was a new OS. Most of the "bad experiences" were 3rd party drivers, apps or the lack of compatability
Plus OEM companies shipping Vista with hardware below recommended specs for Vista,personally I thought Vista was a very good OS,Win7 is based on Vista anyway with two years further refinement etc..a lot of people forget that,amazing how much unjustified FUD there was about Vista.
As to Win8 nothing wrong with it,as I keep saying got it on three PCs, its fast,stable and runs all my games /software just fine,no drivers issues either so not much more you can ask in a good OS.
He means MS decided to pretend windows 7 was a new OS (to shake vista stigma) and not just a vista service pack which is a fair assessment of what windows 7 actually is.
Yet another reason Ballmer should be canned.It is totally ridiculous that Microsoft scans users' private, unshared content for "vulgarity", "profanity", "nudity ...
I get Windows licenses practically for free, but do not feel a need to upgrade and rock the boat on my old desktop. When I build my next desktop, it will have Windows 8. I'm confident Win8 will be as good or better as Win7 for everything I currently do with Win7.
That said, I don't expect to be using many Metro apps. I also don't want to develop Metro software myself since they are subject to arbitrary (content) censorship by Microsoft. If Microsoft decided to make simple, officially supported sideloading available on Win8 (like on Android - check a box in system settings to be able to install 3rd party software), I would be a lot more interested in Metro.
I'm never going to touch Skydrive, nor am I going to touch Windows on mobile. It is totally ridiculous that Microsoft scans users' private, unshared content for "vulgarity", "profanity", "nudity in nonhuman forms such as cartoons" and a zillion other things that are even legal to print in a newspaper, then bans users based on their findings. After a fuck-up of this magnitude, the only way Microsoft could get me to use their cloud storage in the future is by creating an option for users to manage their own encryption keys in such a way that Microsoft is never in possession of the key or the unencrypted data.
I have 8 on a selectable drive machine along with 7. I use it as a training device for myself, and it seems OK as long as I use Start8 with it. OTH, I will skip it as my primary OS. I will keep 8 and use it in order to learn it. This week, it got 19 updates!
I'll stay with 8 until 9 comes along and probably try that due to liking to try new things and also getting a bit bored with Win8,once you know the OS well and have no issues it does get a bit boring.
We're not talking about a [simple] video game. It's an operating system. I want it to be _usable_, not entertaining. And Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 have each taken steps backward in usability.
Desktop means using it as desktop user for software I throw at,drivers are for many things ie sound,video,USB,Lan,IRST etc....however I'm very happy with Win8 as a desktop and gamer,most members here probably know that,its fast,rock stable,no issues with drivers or gaming I do .
Somebody got out of the wrong side of the bed,try posting in a calm polite way which costs nothing,,did you even read my post?...
Plenty of users would disagree with you about a step backwards with Vista,Win7 etc...I can think of a few forward steps ie Vista ( which had a new sound structure to improve sound/driver stability and security improvements which XP did not have),Win7 builds on Vista with performance improvements etc..same goes for Win8.
Yeah. You get bored with your OS. Like my 8 year old eventually gets with a new toy.
Did you read _my_ post? USABILITY. Driver and security issues are not usability issues. I'll grant that there are many improvements in the underlying OS. But very few, if any, in the user interface.
Yeah. You get bored with your OS. Like my 8 year old eventually gets with a new toy.
Did you read _my_ post? USABILITY. Driver and security issues are not usability issues. I'll grant that there are many improvements in the underlying OS. But very few, if any, in the user interface.