[mountainlion]

I got a new HP with windows 8. This program looks like some kid made it. It looks like some teenybopper game. It is not easy to use and really counter intuitive.

[HomeAtLast]

See post 10.

It is annoying, Windows 8. Some witty freeper once called it a Fisher-Price start screen. However, you can google plenty of things to help redesign it. “Windows 8 start screen” can be altered to the classic start; Stardock can help you make it resemble an Apple, with an object dock, or change the start screen background to something that doesn’t look so psychedelic. There’s so many creative people out there, and most of the improvements are freebies.

I still don’t like Windows 8 but it isn’t as bad as it was. s so many creative people out there, and most of the improvements are freebies.

Also, you have to spend some time at it, but in many of the commonly used programs, the default settings can be customized to your liking, it just takes a long time to find out what can be changed and how to do it.

Sometimes I just added old versions of programs; for example, Wordpad. It’s like a pair of old slippers, I don’t want the new ones with the bells, spurs, headlamps and bunny ears, I want what’s comfortable!

[Maceman]

Counter intuitive is right. Did you figure out how to turn off the computer yet? Windows 8 doesn’t make it obvious at all. I had to go look for the way to do it on Google.

[Travis McGee]

I just bought a 500gb Dell running Windows 7 to replace my old 50gb Windows XP.

My computer guys said, “Don’t get 8, get 7!” Windows 8, so it is said, was designed to function on touch screen tablets, not cnventional PCs. There is even an app to make Windows 8 mimic the regular desktop start menu and icons on Windows 7, because 8 on a PC is so un-user-friendly.

But MS won’t let retailers sell any more Windows 7 products, they now have to stock and sell WIndows 8, like it or not. So if you are buying at a bigbox store off the shelf, you are pretty much stuck with 8.

But Dell will still sell new Windows 7 machines, at least for a while, and that’s what I just purchased and had shipped to my house. Even got a great price, since it’s “only” 500gb, and “last years’s model.” But the Office that is installed is the 2013 version. Go figure. Just set it up today.

[Inyo-Mono]

I got a new HP with windows 8. This program looks like some kid made it. It looks like some teenybopper game. It is not easy to use and really counter intuitive.

Recently got a laptop with Windows 8. I loved XP, I love Windows 7 on my home PC but HATE Windows 8 on my new laptop. I'm not an iPad touch screen kind of guy. Heck, I just make phone calls on my flip cell phone.

[daniel1212]

I got a new HP with windows 8. This program looks like some kid made it. It looks like some teenybopper game.

I suspect a certain brand of socialist psychologist is behind this.

[adorno]

It is not easy to use and really counter intuitive.

It's actually not that hard to figure out, and in reality, it's actually easier, or as easy as Windows 7 to use. I now have 3 computers at home using Windows 8, and I don't miss Windows 7 at all, since Windows 8 can be used as if it were Windows 7, and as Windows 8 when one wants the new UI or needs the touch capabilities that the UI was designed for. Most times, my PCs are in regular Windows 7 mode, since once you get past the "metro" screen, the computer and OS work the same as the older Windows OSes. Even my non-techie wife, has gotten used to the new OS, and she never even sees a difference between Windows 8 and Window Windows 7. Once she gets to the old UI, it's all the same as before. Heck, even a 3 year old can learn to use Windows 8, and it's really quite intuitive. You might not like the look of the screen, but it's actually quite easy and quite intuitive. And, the whole setup is a lot more useful than any other OS ever. I'm not saying it because I love Microsoft or Windows, but it's mostly because, I fail to see where the complaints have any real merit.