Posted on 02/14/2014 10:53:20 AM PST by ShadowAce
8 sucks big time. Wouldn’t have it if it wasn’t on a new laptop.
Bleh.
I’d.put the blame on a shitty user interface causing slow growth. No compelling reason to upgrade.
So change it out.
I just had 2 computers built with Win 7 on them and another computer refurbished and Win 7 installed instead of XP.
Windows 8 is windows 7 with improvements. Get classic shell for free to make it look like win 7.
Anyone who can use windows can use win 8.
Yes, it came on a new laptop but has fit in well.
I am so damned sick and tired of operating system companies and other oft-used applications infiltrating other program companies with add-ons into their updates with superfluous sh!t I don’t want.
Adobe always wants to load Google Chrome and other google cap that screws up one-clip pullup of other progams. Each time I forget and let it load updates, I have to go back to MS to find a scrub/erase ap to get rid of it.
Frankly, what I could give a sh!t less about is some human factors/programming weenie in Seattle/Palo Alto/San Francisco sipping on a MochaChocoLotta $20 cup of frappaqueero coffee while working on his new ‘usabilty’ improvement interface about what I obviously need.
Once I’ve learned it, I don’t need more confusion and Facebook, Twitter or other needless crap; I just want to do what I do with something I know and am comfortable with.
How frigging hard is this to understand? Geez....
The start button was added back in 8.1, which is a free upgrade. anyone using windows 8 should be using 8.1
Which represents 199.9 million new hardware devices which came with Win8 preinstalled, with no other option offered to the consumer.
The difference is, Windows 7 was a slightly improved version of XP which was itself very good, and it didn’t suck.
I have 8.1 - installed in back when it was offered in October (I think) - but no start button.
After I wrote last reply, I checked what happens when I click on the 4 panes in the corner of the taskbar where the start button always was. It takes me to the tile screen, says START, and then goes to the installed “apps”. I guess that is always what a start button always did but didn’t seem the same.
Heck, I used win98 until stuff quit working.
I’ll do the same with XP.
My 6 yeard old laptop has Vista Home Pro...it’s slowly dying.
I will keep it till it dies.
I HATE how they boast about such things when they release a new POS Operating System. I'd bet a small fraction of those "sold licenses" were by customers actually wanting to run that OS. It just comes pre-installed by the PC manufacturers(like having new cars with completely undesirable tires), and I'm sure a vast majority of end users even know what an operating system is, let alone knowing another one such as Linux can be installed. I bought a new HP Laptop for my wife, and it had a Windows 8 license with downgrade(their words lol) rights to have it pre-installed with Win7 Professional, so technically I "purchased" a Windows 8 license, and it will never EVER run on that Laptop. Had it not been for the option of having it come with Win7, I wouldn't have bought it. If given an informed choice, I'm certain that your average end user would be much much more satisfied and comfrotable with one of the 'mainstream' Linux operating systems over Windows 8.
Windows 8 has to be at least part of the reason PC sales are in the toilet. The OEMs would be FAR better served to not be joined at the hip with Microsoft!
“Microsoft claims it has now sold more than 200 million Windows 8 licenses”
Very very few people would purchase Win 8 if it wasn’t on an OEM device.
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