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So, really, what’s the point of Windows 10? What does upgrading to Windows 10 do - other than enrich Microsoft - that Windows 7 doesn’t currently do?
That actually looks like it could be a reasonable balance.
Not sure I’ll give up Win 7 for it, but it’s DEFINITELY an improvement over Win 8x. That HAD to be the WORST excuse for an OS I’ve ever seen in my life, even worse than Windows ME!!
I like Windows 7 specifically because it doesn’t have any craps... er, apps. If I want something that takes over my whole screen I’ll install Desqview.
Fixed that for ya!
BFL
For less than $3, I purchased a tiny start button app called StartisBack froma web site off the same name. It is bettet than the win 7 start menu, but looks identical. The best thing is, with it, I can boot automatically into desktop mode and never fool with Metro.
Win 8 with this tiny app is better than win 7, as it is faster and seeems to behave better. Never thought I would ever say that. Best 3 bucks I have ever spent.
Given that Windows 7 support ends something aroung 2019, I figure by then that the few programs I run that require Windows will be ported to Linux.
I think MS has been doing discreet updates (you know, the things that happen in the dead of the night) to make 8.x ready for this new version. I have noticed some unaccountable changes in things but fortunately, they’re changes for the better. Almost nothing could be worse.
I went from Vista to Winows 8.1 so I really cannot comment on how 10 compares to 7.
But I can make a judgement on 10 vs. 8.1 and it looks like a step backwards to me. I am, apparently, the only inhabitant of the universe of Happy Windows 8 Users. I really, really like the full screen tile-based Start Menu. It is one mouse click to toggle back and forth between Desktop and my Apps.
Full screen leaves lots of room for lots of Apps. Version 10 cuts down on that Real Estate.
No thanks.
I REALLY don’t understand the problem with 8’s menu. It takes a couple of hours to get used to it.
Wow...that Windows 9 was quite a flop, wasn’t it?
Well. That’s it. I’m dead.
It took me five years to teach my mother the very basics of windows 7 after she’d adapted to windows 98.
This is going to confuse the crap out out of her.
She still can’t run a cellphone. She *just* figured out call waiting on the house phone a couple months ago and she still panics when she gets a call interrupt.
“Oh dear! I have a call! The thingy says that it’s from a number in Arizona that I don’t know!”
“So take the call mom.”
“Okay. But don’t hang up. If I loose you, I’ll call you back when I can.”
“That’s fine.”
[click]...
[click]
“Hello? HELLO?! Did I loose you?”
“I’m here mom.”
“Oh. Okay. I don’t know who it was. They hung up.”
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The tiles are horrible. I loved the old menu and being able to set things I wanted on it, without those ugly ugly tiles.
10 seems to make more sense than 8 and 8.1. No stupid tile menu to switch back-and-forth from that confuses a lot of older folks. The Start Menu was back to normal.
The Tech Preview looks promising, it integrates all the decent stuff from 8 and brings back the classic 7 features that are intuitive to most.
Micro$oft has a tendency to go good OS, bad OS in their releases, so hopefully the Windows 8 “alpha testers” will get a free upgrade to 10 when given the chance next year.