Posted on 08/14/2015 6:33:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I’m waiting a while longer.
Last year, around this time, got a Windows 8 machine for my wife. A week later, took it back to Best Buy, stuffed back in the box.
“Anything wrong with it?”
“It has Windows 8 on it.”
I hate, hate hate! Windows 8, but I’ll wait a while longer. I’ve been burned by Windows in the past by jumping on too soon.
Not me. Really like W7. I guess I will be like one of those Japanese soldiers who were fighting WW2 on remote islands in 1989 wearing a towel and gripping my rifle with first, XP, and now W7.
I, for one, am staying with 8.1 for probably another few months at minimum. I will let the marching morons test out the bells, whistles, virii, trojans and spyware BEFORE I jump. The only thing that I really see an advantage to, as a non-corporate user, is the new browser. My mantra is now, as always, Version 1.0.0 is not for me!
I’m running Windows 8 on most of my machine. A couple of machines running 8 are difficult to work with.
The issue isn’t Windows 10 is so good, I’m sure it’s buggy and loaded with spyware to the gills, the problem is Windows 8 is so bad.
For people running Windows 7, there isn’t really an incentive to change.
Ditto.
I got 10 almost the day it came out. I’ve had no problems so far.
But because of Windows 8, I will never buy another Windows machine. I was forced to upgrade my old slow XP machine to 7 because they stopped providing security updates. 7 is a bloated resource hog. They’ll have to go through a few usable iterations before I’ll trust them again. By that time I’ll be too immersed in the Mac universe to switch back.
right now I’m getting a polite reminder every morning.
If I wait too long they’ll be threatening to hunt me down and kill me and everyone I’ve ever loved.
I’m still running Win 8 with Classic Shell. I have the Windows 10 ISO but I’m happy with my setup.
I am very happy with 10 on my tablet. Much better than 8.1 with no issues.
I’ve got 8.1, and I too, am waiting for a while.
Yes, it’s precisely because Windows 8 was so bad that I’ve switched to 10.
They made Windows8 so bad for reason- to get customers to rush into 10: a “service”, not a “program”.
At least that’s the only reason for making something so bad I can see.
LMAO. Yeah, through your PC speakers, no doubt.
I haven’t had any real complaints about 8. I bought a couple laptops for my kids with 8, loaded 8.1 and have not seen any major issues. The girls were very happy with them—they love the touch screens. I don’t use the touch screen, so the interface is a bit clunky, but not a game-stopper. Boots and shutdowns are multiple times faster than 7. Windows 10 sounds much worse to me.
I have a convertible laptop/tablet and upgraded the day 10 came out, because (a) 10 seemed to be designed for just that kind of machine, and (b) I had no real security or privacy concerns on that particular machine. It’s been great.
You mean my Windows 95 OS with Bob is becoming obsolete ?
Gee..it’s almost as if Microsoft made Win8 suck on purpose.
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