Posted on 03/30/2015 10:07:35 PM PDT by dayglored
Bwahahahaha!
What bs.....Windows 8 is very good. Just install a third party start button to bypass the tiles
What is the problem???? Besides the missing start button?? ANSWER: There is none!!!!!!!!!
You’re putting your data at risk still using XP. Keeping an updated anti-virus, anti-malware suite and running FireFox is only an illusion of safety.
Get a surface pro 2/3. Love inking on mine.
Oh please stop being ridiculous. Your hands will learn it in a couple of hours, and which point the cortex is no longer involved. Unless you peck out your messages on FR on key at a time, your hands learned how to perform very complex takes without the interventions of your higher brain long ago.
#34 I find it funny, almost embarrassingly so, that people can’t adapt to W8. I think it’s great. It runs smoothly and I never have any crashes. I really don’t understand the mindset of “I hate Metro”.
That is because the rest of us are taking our medications! : )
First time I saw in in thousands of hours on this OS. (We have a lot of VMs)
” people can’t adapt to W8. “
Are you using it on a desktop?
Scrolling is awful, to wit:
1. Charm bar constantly pops up blocking you from using it.
2. Scroll bar disappears. You have to move the mouse to refresh it or you go to some ad placed there intentionally by the website.
3. Go to the top scroll arrow on a pdf and the “X”appears!
4. Isn’t the scroll bar narrower? Or is it just the new problems associated with using it that makes it seem so?
These are stupid constantly irritating nuisances that no one would have ever thought people wanted.
Um-hmm...
You're just trying to sucker me into your evil mind control cult, but I'm too smart for that (says he while typing with all ten fingers ;-)
I did not know that. Thanks for the info (I'm a low-info where it comes to computer tech issues).
I think W2KPro came out while my wife and I were still using our original Win98 computer. I'm glad to hear that it was a winner for you. By the time we finally needed new computers, WinXP was the standard.
Thankfully, we were in good shape for years afterwards, and didn't need to upgrade again until Win7 was the standard. We completely missed all the fun with WinME and Vista.
Add me to the list please. Thanks!!
I went from W7 to W8.1 - skipped the original W8.
I found W8.1 was MUCH better than W7 - faster and noticeably more stable.
As an aside, changing 1 setting my W8.1 boots direct to Desktop (very quickly, too) and I rarely ever visit the “tile” screen.
I’m definitely eager to read your comments on newest W10 and eventually give it a whirl on my Ultrabook.
Hey, me too :) Maybe we need a Win XP only ping list?
IMHO, in the long run XP will be dropped by the software companies and that will do it in. For example, I wonder how much longer tax prep software (H&R Block, TurboTax, etc.) will be supported on Win XP?
:)
I don't know for certain yet, but I kinda doubt it. It's in Microsoft's interest to do what nearly everyone else in the social networking and browser arenas is doing, collecting data on you and selling it to the highest bidder, or using it themselves. That's not to slam Microsoft at all, they're just doing business, and let's face it, they're giving away a LOT of engineering effort and they want something in return. Fair's fair.
Now if I were PAYING for a browser, I'd have the right to demand it not track me and tell me what I want. But I'm a realist in this regard -- there's no truly free lunch in commercial software. Everybody wants something.
Still randomly snickering for no *apparent* reason in inappropriate places.
Like Best Buy, today, when I walked by the tablet PCs.
Oh well.
I spend so much money there, they kinda let me slide.
;D
I suspect ME was a bizarre prank.
Vista was a horror show.
Much like the 7 Ultimate I use, the security was *so* insanely tight that you could not access your own files, half the time.
Sharing files on the network was madness.
I loved XP and still run it on a few laptops but I never thought I would cozy up to 7.
I’m okay with it, now, as I fiddle with my settings until I have nearly an XP interface, again.
I have a Panasonic Toughbook still running Win98.
;D
My conclusion about these abortive releases, is that the software engineers at MS have too often been pushed by management to get new product out before it's ready for prime time.
Get the stupid bean counters out of the way, and I'll bet the engineers will make every new iteration of Windows a real improvement and a joy to use.
There's more than Spartan in Windows 10 build 10049
Came across a statement by Ben Franklin from his autobiography that freeware developers may agree with,
“… as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.” - http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/05/ben-franklin-facts/
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