and without it? as is given by Microsoft?no good. I don't have to tweak XP or 7 to make it usable.
It is like buying fixer upper. You know it sucks as is, it needs a lot of work.
lol, really? $8 and 2 installs is a lot of work?
I call it chump change.
Seriously I waste more time shopping for donuts and spend more money at a quick mart on my way to work than I did on buying and installing those 2 simple programs that really do an amazing job. Stardock makes excellent products. Some people are just pathetically sad.
Start8 and Modern Mix = awesome OS
btw you guys just got trolled
Its not about the money. I have a license for Start8 and 5 licenses for StartIsBack which IMO is better and easier to configure but that's besides the point.
I have a Windows 8 PC at work because we couldn't find a Windows 7 PC to buy so I got the PC, installed StartIsBack, disabled UAC, uninstalled all metro apps, got back the old Windows 7 Games for the times when I'm bored, changed all default programs so nothing would launch in that crappy Metro interface like images or videos, etc.........
But you see, why must anyone *who has a choice* do all of this to get an OS to work as it should? especially in a corporate environment.
Unable to setup Scan on printer on Windows 8 computer
"Linux" is a lot better than Win 8 due to the simple fact that the OS does what you expect given the right command. Win 8 however randomly shows some stupid menu or Charms bar if you "swipe" the touchpad in the "wrong" way, meaning a way you could have done so without an issue for the last decade.Ninfact reminds me a bit of going on Linux,knowing where things are and whats different etc...
Its not about the money. I have a license for Start8 and 5 licenses for StartIsBack which IMO is better and easier to configure but that's besides the point.
I have a Windows 8 PC at work because we couldn't find a Windows 7 PC to buy so I got the PC, installed StartIsBack, disabled UAC, uninstalled all metro apps, got back the old Windows 7 Games for the times when I'm bored, changed all default programs so nothing would launch in that crappy Metro interface like images or videos, etc.........
But you see, why must anyone *who has a choice* do all of this to get an OS to work as it should? especially in a corporate environment.
Unable to setup Scan on printer on Windows 8 computer
windows 8 search is supposed to be much improved. but i've probably used search on my computer (not windows 8) less than once a month, on average. is searching really that integral to the process with windows 8?
Reller repeated the same message shared by Microsoft's outgoing CFO Peter Klein during a recent earnings call -- that Blue will address customer feedback that Microsoft has been collecting about Windows 8 and Windows RT. She would not say whether the rumored return of the Start Button and a boot straight to desktop option will be among the ways that Microsoft does this. "We feel good that we've listened and looked at all of the customer feedback. We are being principled, not stubborn" about modifying Windows 8 based on that feedback, Reller said. She said Microsoft has paid attention to where people are getting stuck when using Windows 8, with the goal being to help people use the product more and more fully.
Interim results today on http://finance.yahoo.com/
POLL
Microsoft is reversing course on major elements of its Windows 8 operating system.
Do you use Windows 8?
Yes, I like it (4549)
11%
No, it has too many problems (8477)
20%
I'm satisfied with Windows 7 (21962)
53%
I'm sticking with Apple (6635)
16%
I think it'll be interesting to see how well Windows Blue/8.1 does,personally I think sales will improve due to more new tablet/phones available and the new tweaks/improvements to the OS.Microsoft: More than 100 million Windows 8 licenses sold
Summary: Microsoft is continuing to sell Windows 8 licenses at roughly the same clip that it sold Windows 7 ones to its OEM partners and others in the channel, company officials say.
http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-more-than-100-million-windows-8-licenses-sold-7000014957/
Microsoft officials said on May 6 that Microsoft has surpassed the 100 million Windows 8 licenses sold milestone -- a number on par with the number of Windows 7 licenses the company sold in its first six months on the market.
(Windows 8 and Windows RT went on sale on October 26, 2012. So the exact six-month mark was April 26, which was 10 days ago.)
"If there had been more touch devices in the market, it would have been even more," said Tami Reller, the Chief Financial Officer of Microsoft's Windows client team. That said, "our sell-through has been consistently going up," Reller added.
More from MicroSoft. If you will note the bold portion, I get the sense that she is confirming that enterprise users are really getting thrown under the bus.... that tablet interfaces will be the new norm on desktop PCs. Is that the sense you get?
I have the sneaking suspicion that the big change in Blue over 8 will be an obnoxius dog or paper clip to help us idiots figure out how to use the OS.
http://www.zdnet.com/what-microsoft-is-now-saying-and-not-about-windows-blue-7000014960/
windows 8 search is supposed to be much improved. but i've probably used search on my computer (not windows 8) less than once a month, on average. is searching really that integral to the process with windows 8?
You can use it as a command line type function, it's actually pretty nice for that.
For example, I want to play Path of Exile.
It's a game I don't play often, so I don't keep it pinned to my task bar.
I could go to the start screen, move around and look for it's icon and click it to start the program.
Or I could type *windowkey* p-a-t *enter* and immediately start the program.
I need calculator, hitting *windowkey* c-a-l *enter* is a pretty fast and easy way to open it.
Plenty of stats all over the net depending which way you want to go,like this one,
I think it'll be interesting to see how well Windows Blue/8.1 does,personally I think sales will improve due to more new tablet/phones available and the new tweaks/improvements to the OS.
+9000The same thing works with Windows 7 and the Start menu.
But the Start menu makes it easy to find programs you don't know the name of.
The same thing works with Windows 7 and the Start menu.
But the Start menu makes it easy to find programs you don't know the name of, not to mention do things like easily find properties, open a file explorer window in a given directory, as well as about a 1000 other things that aren't nearly as easy without a Start menu.
Usage share metrics from California analytics company Net Applications can be combined with Microsoft's claim that 1.4 billion Windows PCs run Windows worldwide, a number reiterated Tuesday by Julie Larson-Green, who heads Windows development. Caveats apply: Net Applications' data is based on accessing the Internet, so it cannot account for hardware that doesn't go online, and the firm massages its raw data, weighting users by their country of origin, to come up with what it believes is a more accurate representation of operating system usage.
For April, Windows 8's average usage share was 4.2% of all Windows PCs, according to Net Applications' data. That number included what Net Applications labeled as "touch" for Windows 8 and Windows RT, those tablets and touch-enabled notebooks that browse the Web from the "Modern" user interface (UI) rather than the mouse-and-keyboard UI of the traditional desktop.
Four-point-two percent of 1.4 billion equals approximately 58.6 million, the number of devices using Windows 8 last month.
Those same calculations also illustrate the huge chore Microsoft and its customers, predominantly enterprises, have in ditching the 12-year-old Windows XP before April 2014's support retirement deadline. Using the same math, XP powers about 584.4 million machines, or well over half a billion PCs.
Windows 7? 682.2 million. Vista? 72.5 million, still more than Windows 8. What about Windows NT, the operating system first released in 1993, or two decades ago? 1.7 million PCs.
to return to an earlier version (unless you use a 3rd party program)