[Cringing Negativism Network]

Well I like it.

I am impressed with Windows 8.1.

That said, I bought another drive, installed Ubuntu on the replacement drive, and am currently using Linux on my pc. But I think Windows is routinely slammed here on FR, and I believe they’ve got a good product.

Your experiences with it seem less than optimal, but I was actually impressed with 8.1.

[cva66snipe]

If a person has High Speed meaning DSL or Cable it might be OK for them. It is not a metered {as in limited allowed usage per month} or low speed service friendly OS. Even Hughesnet customers would have to watch W-8's bandwidth consumption closely. This recent update put out last night would take a huge chunk out of Hughesnet monthly Usage. Other issues using bandwidth is Cloud for example which can not be disabled. There was no reason for that not to be possible.

W-8 was an OS they should have pulled early on and said Opps sorry we goofed. Microsofts worse enemy is their own arrogance including their you will like this or else attitude as of late. If they don't start listening it will be their demise. Patching a shoddy OS is not a solution.

The W-7 users are going to have to worry about how soon MS wants to force feed them W-8 or worse if they can do worse than W-8 on their next one. MS has a long history of putting out a good OS followed by a crappy one. W7 as I understand it was decent. Oh one last thing I loathe their mandatory password feature as well. No opt out for that either as in previous OS.