Posted on 04/01/2015 9:41:38 PM PDT by dayglored
Of course. It was good enough for Origen :-)
This PC runs Win7, and I have no urge to move it to anything else. I have tried Win10, and it is functional... but it looks flat and terribly ugly. The stock Start menu is still broken in many ways (they still cram those Modern apps into your throat, for one) and requires Classic Shell as a replacement.
Win10 can run Metro/Modern applications in windows, which is how it should have been done from day one. It starts up and shuts down faster (like Win8), but that will be lost on pretty much everyone because sleep works fine already. If it has other improvements, I do not recall them (this should already tell you that they are not that spectacular.)
My media laptop that I use to play internet radio runs Linux Mint. I don't think I rebooted it even once in last few months. Originally it was shipped with Vista.
If I can backdate to Win 7 if Win 10 turns out to suck then I’m willing to give Win 10 a try.
I did a complete diskOS copy/reinstall something or other when I tried Win 7 on my old Xp machine, just in case. Plan to do the same if, and when, I try 10 on this 7 machine.
I am so sick of OS "upgrades". Xp was the only one I was happy with.
When I got 3.1, everyone had Win95.
When I got Win95, everyone was moving to Win XP.
Reckon I'll stick with Win7 for a while--it's a lot less work than 3.1 or 95 ever was... :)
The only problem with Windows 8 is lack of a start button. Microsoft made a huge mistake by not making it an easy to turn ON-OFF option for desktop/laptop users. This was pure ineptitude. This was not fully corrected in 8.1 either.
This mistake provided an opening for>>>>>>
All the homoerotic -Apple fanbois piled on their hate and disdain and smug superiority over this. Apple fanbois lead this charge. And the sheeple believed it and lapped it up in a conformist frenzy.
My own solution was to download and install “Start 8” which installs this all important start button which will be returned in Windows 10
I agree that Windows 8 is very good. It seems the average laptop/desktop user is dumb and incapable of installing a start button from the internet
Once I got used to it. Windows 8.1 is fine.
Win 8.1 is nothing. It is very easy for hackers to get into cloud. The best windows for security was XP pro.
That's fine for the Microsoft Sales Department. But what matters overall is what the people who use it do with it. And despite the fact that Win8 was pre-installed on millions of computers -- practically every new one sold -- for the past 2 years, the actual use hasn't done much:
Count of "licenses sold" matters to MS Sales, but no one else. Vista sold a ton of licenses too -- do you remember when vendors were told they could sell a computer with XP installed on it, ONLY if they ALSO included a Vista license with it, so that MS could rack up another "Vista license sold"? I remember that...
Anyway, it's okay that Win8 didn't do all that well. Win10 is gonna take off like a madman. It all works out in the end.
I do not like the GUI on Windows 8.
However, the ability to run virtual machines along with RSAT tools for 8 are more than enough to offset the lack of start button for me.
The system is good in a production environment, providing, of course, the person using it, me, is an admin. No way I would ever push 8 out to my end-users. I’d wind up being chased down the street by a frustrated mob.
Well, in the past 6 months I’ve purchased a Win8 Dell box and Win7 software to upgrade my old XP box. I use the Win7 box most of the time,, and my kid likes the Win8 since he doenst know any better..
I saw what you did there.
(So...Microsoft, you thought it was a good idea to move and hide the power switch? Seriously??)
Eventually I gave that new Dell Win 8 computer to my sister and bought a home brewed machine with Win 7 from a local computer shop instead.
They can force me to buy Win 8 if I don't have a choice, but not if I do.
Huge difference between how Vista and Windows 8 were sold. For quite a while after Windows 8 was launched, most PC’S being sold at electronic outlets like Best Buy were still Windows 7 PC’s in the main because of the radical change in the interface of Win 8. PC makers did not force Windows 8 on anyone. If anything, the opposite was true.
In any case Windows 8 sold very well, despite there being more Win 7 PC’S on offer after the Win 8 launch. Irrespective of whether Win 7 sold better at launch than Win 8 or not, Win 8 sold very, very well.
I had troubles with my wife’s Windows 7 system, especially things like printing to the network printer. When her drive crashed, I replaced it and got Windows 8.1. I don’t like the interface that much, but network connectivity was much easier and more stable. Can now print our of internet explorer and email, unlike before.
I use an iMac, and it is great.
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