“Better idea #1: Upgrade to Windows 7”
Agreed. If you like XP, you will like 7 just as well.
Yep. Windows 7 is a better alternative. Staying with XP is asking for trouble.
Windows 8 is not that bad once it was upgraded to 8.1.
The big problem is whether you have a touch screen or not. I do not, and I got use to it. And that big problem really isn’t much of a big problem because all you have to do is know where to click to find your desktop which looks just like windows 7.
I hated Windows 8/8.1 at first. Now it’s fine, especially since they added the start menu/touch screen button to the bottom left hand corner, that was my major complaint. You couldn’t find the darn thing. Now I enjoy using the apps on the start menu/touch screen for things like eBay, email, and Netflix.
However, I would buy a new computer with Windows 8.1 not try to upgrade something that is 4 years old, like the article says.
It’s like I told someone else who was trying to get used to Windows 8.1: You have the old desktop world everyone knows, and the touch screen world everyone hates. All you have to do is learn how to flip back and forth between both worlds and it begins to become very easy.
The other part that can be annoying is if your in the desk top world, click a photo to view, it pops up, next then you realize you’re in the touch screen world in a photo app. So there are times that you’re pulled into the touch screen but if you understand that you can instantly flip back to the desktop these annoyances just go away. It becomes intuitive like anything else.
I shitcanned 7 and went back to XP.
I’m upgrading to Windows 7. I hear 8.1 is a pain.