Nothing seriously wrong with W8 once you get used to it, but I don't see anything wrong with those who are sticking with W7. Some of you just like to argue about stuff.
If u use touch screen then do 8.
For those that do not touch screen, win8 just makes getting round more frustrating.
Besides point and click, they added find the hidden menu, then point and click.
Windows 8 and a non touchscreen system makes no sense.
And the guy that said they plan to install 8 on a media pc, wait till you discover windows media center is not part of 8 any longer.
Kinda defeats the idea of a media pc, with no media center.
Win8 plus Start8. Configured this way its highly usable and blazingly fast.
And the guy that said they plan to install 8 on a media pc, wait till you discover windows media center is not part of 8 any longer.
Kinda defeats the idea of a media pc, with no media center.
Nothing seriously wrong with W8 once you get used to it, but I don't see anything wrong with those who are sticking with W7. Some of you just like to argue about stuff.
i just don't understand how they made one OS for laptops, tablets, smartphones, AND desktops despite all of them being totally different platforms!...
What I think is even more interesting is that it appears like the next Xbox will be more or less running Windows 8. At least in the same way that Windows Phone 8 is running the same Windows NT core. That could make it very interesting because theoretically the same Xbox Live game could run on the Xbox 3, your PC, and your tablet.It's the same thing they've always done, just the other side of the coin. Up through 7 they sold a desktop OS with a few additions to make it work on a tablet. Now they're selling a tablet OS with a few additions to make it work with a keyboard and mouse.
If I could still get drivers and hardware support I'd still be using Widnows XP. The Windows 7 user interface sucks, IMO. Explorer is ugly and broken. The Start menu stinks. The Control Panel apps all have strangely different, unintuitive user interfaces. I'm sure that there are many "under the hood" differences that make both Win7 and Win8 superior to Windows XP, but it's amazing that Microsoft is incapable of improving the user interface to anything legitimately better than one designed over a decade ago.
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If contemporary Windows is the best U.I that the world has to offer at this time, i feel sorry for graphics designers everywhere. Have we really peaked already?
*raises hand* I like my Win7 to work/look like XP in some aspects. Apparently, enough people do too, hence the reason projects like ClassicShell came into being.This made me laugh. I'd be willing to bet that you'd find VERY few people who would agree that XP's interface is better than W7.
I like my monitor to have a clean screen with no fingerprints or smudges on it. Going 8 will stop that from happening for Im sure most "new" monitors that will be coming out will be touch screen, and thats gonna suck too.
*raises hand* I like my Win7 to work/look like XP in some aspects. Apparently, enough people do too, hence the reason projects like ClassicShell came into being.
I don't mind change itself, but I honestly prefer some of the things in XP.Some people don't like change either,remember Dos,Win3.1,did they have it?....every OS Microsoft made has had some changes/differences ,however from Win95 to Win7 it has remained unchanged for the most part desktop wise ,probably why some people cannot change so use to it,you could argue a change was long overdue.
Are there others that think this as well? I've never anyone that didn't like Win7's look.
I disliked the flat glass of Win7. I much preferred the look of Vista which is still my favorite Windows. For /appearance/, I like the look of Win8, and I could use it with little difficulty. I'd try to remove all the metro apps because they have no place on a desktop, but I'm ok with the start screen.
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- Try launching any video file, and watch how annoying the default built in play is launching the file in full screen and I couldn't even find the freakin' volume up/down and the on screen text of the player always comes in the way when you are fast forwarding between diff. parts of the movie. Plain rubbish! What's worse, is even when I set MPC-HC as my default player for all file types, Windows would still launch it built in player unless I right clicked on the video, then selected open with MPC-HC
- Every time I run IE 10, the bookmarks bar looks kinda fuzzy at first as if my monitor had dead pixels then corrects itself within a few seconds
- IE 10 is a joke! How can they put this browser in a final version of Windows? The thing wouldn't even pass for being an Alpha in my books. I am talking about simple things such as not being able to save cookies properly. Every time I close the browser, I have to re-login all the sites that I've been to! what the duck? Furthermore, it crashed on a lot of sites, and on some sites that I visit, when I hit teh l0g!n button, noth!ng happ3n$
Even in Linux, you often have to type a password, i don't think UAC is that bad but whatever, i move and copy files without answering anything, only a UAC alert happens for certain folders i try to move that require admin priv and just click yes.- Even when UAC is disabled, every time I want to copy or move a file, I have to answer a security question whether I am sure I want to continue! It takes me double the work to do anything now
- No more "Windows Color an appearance" so I cannot change the vertical / horizontal spacing of my icons. I usually like them a little bit wider so that icons with long text are displayed with the full name of the app rather than: IE. >> SUPERAntiSpyware will look like SUPERANT.... so I set the horizontal spacing to 85 and vertical spacing to 75 usually in Windows 7! Now this thing is gone I searched everywhere it's not there! Great! Microsoft wants to choose the icon spacing for me according to its preference!!
- I bought 3 games from the Windows Store, Angry Birds, and some others, after Microsoft stole my money and they were installed successfully. I couldn't for the life of me find them, they were not in the usual Games section in the start menu, that was empty with nothing, not even Solitaire in there, and I couldn't even add the games from the "Programs and Features" section as you would in Windows 7.
Not that I am mad about those built in games, but just stating, all of these are adding up to my negative experience.
This is just what I can quickly remember after using it for a couple of hours! I tried to make it seem like it's OK and it's good but it isn't!
what their doing before isn't really working either for their future. They are getting left behind in mobile markets and desktop sales are pretty sad, anyone that can operate a RT Tablet would quickly be familiar with W8 on desktop and vice versa. Though there are plenty of 3rd party solutions to get that W7 UI back. Star8, Classicshell...etc.Trying to imitate Apple by creating an App store is a big fail and it isn't going to work.
i bet they read a book first..like this one that details how to do advanced stuff http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2012/11/21/new-book-windows-8-inside-out.aspxI pity any employee who will ever find a Windows 8 PC to work on! LOL
it's much the same as W7 technically except they improved under the hood stuff like tickless kernal..etc. Only the UI changed for the most part.Windows 8 is the king of the Worst OS in the world! It makes even the crappy Windows ME and Windows Vista look good when compared to 8
I couldn't stand Windows 8 for more than 2 hours and quickly restored an image of my trusty Windows 7
i never had a problem, changed all associations to launch with VLC, works perfectly fine that way.
never had that issue. Are you using desktop IE10 or Metro? i never used Metro version so dunno, but no issues here and i had W8 since release day.
Even in Linux, you often have to type a password, i don't think UAC is that bad but whatever, i move and copy files without answering anything, only a UAC alert happens for certain folders i try to move that require admin priv and just click yes.
2 hours, jumped in without trying to learn anything first...good idea, i suggest people do that when it comes to working on their cars too.
what their doing before isn't really working either for their future. They are getting left behind in mobile markets and desktop sales are pretty sad, anyone that can operate a RT Tablet would quickly be familiar with W8 on desktop and vice versa. Though there are plenty of 3rd party solutions to get that W7 UI back. Star8, Classicshell...etc.
it's much the same as W7 technically except they improved under the hood stuff like tickless kernal..etc. Only the UI changed for the most part.
then don't ever try out Linux then if 2 hours is all you give any OS. Your doing it wrong but whatever, W7 will be viable for quite a few years still.