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It is what caused the initial Vista hate as well, driver related issues.
They have to find something to moan about,not like they can say "we want the old Start menu button back" on Vista .
It is what caused the initial Vista hate as well, driver related issues.
I had just about settled on 7, then come the rumours of 8.2 fixing some of that metro crap. The plus point for 8, to me, is that it may yet get better, while 7 is presumably now as good as its going to get (and will go out of support rather earlier).
I am very much of the view that MS got this one horribly wrong. Even if they do finesse 8 the way the eventually did with Vista, as with that case, people have already made up their minds. Unlike with Vista the error seems much simpler - rather than a combination of various driver-problems and overoptimistically-labelled hardware, and initial bugs that took a SP to fix, its just down to one factor - the sheer arrogance of unnecessarily using desktop PC as an extended advert for tablet/touch computing.
You definitely won't be, better in every way. It really feels like a polished desktop-oriented workstation OS.Seen this thread for weeks. May as well weigh in.
I'll buy Windows 7 next year. Time to drop XP. It'll be a huge upgrade from XP and I know I won't be disappointed.
If you ever developed software for use by a community of users, then you would know immediately that it is not designed to work well "JUST FOR YOU" personally.
A fielded development like an OS needs to successfully fulfill an ensemble of criteria some of which is that it needs to be sufficiently robust to work across a variety of hardware, software applications and user backgrounds/experiences. Otherwise there is the risk that it will not be widely embraced by purchasers relative to alternatives. Thus, this is one of the risks of implementing too large a change to an already successfully accepted fielded product.
You definitely won't be, better in every way. It really feels like a polished desktop-oriented workstation OS.
Another reason to dislike 8 especially if you troubleshoot systems: when you lose the taskbar and hit Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up task manager and run explorer.exe, you get a lovely security message stating you can't do that so the only option? Hold down the power button for four seconds. Excellent. Only discovered this when 8 flipped out on a laptop I momentarily dislodged from its docking station to label the bottom with a barcode for tracking and glean the model number. Vista and 7 had no problems undocking for just a couple seconds to label the laptops. So many dopey moves MS has made with 8
Oh thank god. Yeah it was a domain user.That sounds like a user permission issue. I just ended explorer from the task manager and restarted it from the task manager with no problems. Not even a UAC message asking for permission.
you mean like Athlon XP? yes it wont run,
but for any Athlon 64 it should work great,
my X2 4000+ is running Windows 8, now 8.1 since release, the ancient NV chipset (2004-2005) works great, it have all the drivers... the PC feels really fast, no problems at all.
That's how I feel, which is the root of the problem.The question in my mind is... who the heck has any real use for the Metro interface or the apps on a desktop? I don't - so that makes it useless to me. I'm not knocking 8.1 overall as I rather like it but Metro is just a useless piece of annoying baggage to me.
The question in my mind is... who the heck has any real use for the Metro interface or the apps on a desktop? I don't - so that makes it useless to me. I'm not knocking 8.1 overall as I rather like it but Metro is just a useless piece of annoying baggage to me.
I don't like it that much either, although it works fine as an application launcher. The reality of it however is that you simply don't have to deal with it much, if at all. For 98% of what I do Windows 8 and Windows 7 are essentially the same OS. I use both and my workflow isn't altered enough between the two to even begin getting upset about it.
Serious question, as I'm still trying to decide which way to go.
If you use the start screen as an 'application launcher', do you not end up with a badly-sorted list of huge numbers of horizontally-scrolling un-nested app shortcuts? I just don't see how that is any kind of improvement on the start menu with its nested and cascading menus, right there on your desktop.
Seems to me one would be better advised to use a substitute start-menu and avoid Metro entirely (which again makes one ask, why is it there?).
Wish I knew more precisely what 8.2 is going to be!
The question in my mind is... who the heck has any real use for the Metro interface or the apps on a desktop? I don't - so that makes it useless to me. I'm not knocking 8.1 overall as I rather like it but Metro is just a useless piece of annoying baggage to me.
The question in my mind is... who the heck has any real use for the Metro interface or the apps on a desktop? I don't - so that makes it useless to me. I'm not knocking 8.1 overall as I rather like it but Metro is just a useless piece of annoying baggage to me.
You got chocolate in my peanut butter! You got tablet OS in my Desktop OS!
Oh, and you really really really, like really should sign up with a MSN account as your computer login access. Skydrive! Cloud! McCloud? Apps! Oh, and please, please buy them on *our* store, its so much better than those other guys.
I can see where metro works well on tablets but I don't want some silly combo OS that I have to spend time and money tweaking to just get to where I was. As well, a company telling me to like it or leave it because they desperately want to horne in on the tablet market (while they undercut the OEMs in tablets who also make desktops/laptops that use windows) is just arrogance. I just might take them up on that and go to linux. I already finally broke down and bought an Apple to goof around with. If games ran well on linux...