“Windows Blue Screen”
Windows 9 NSA Edition
Call it Kung Fu Fighting
You ain't lyin.
Meet the New Boss
Same as Old Boss
New name..... WTF. After all we already use that term everyday with windows so why not make it official.
Windows 8 was sooo egregious to me that I bought a Mac and now run Windows 7 inside it.
When Windows 8 came out NO windows 7 computers were available - Microsoft changed that policy and there are plenty of Windows 7 computers available.
I needed a new computer during the Windows 7 blackout period and Apple got my business. Sure, I bought a full version Of Windows 7 so Microsoft did make money from me, but Windows 8 is frickin’ awful.
My computer clients who have Windows 8.0 run Classic Shell to emulate previous versions of Windows. it’s pretty good.
One client NEEDS IE 11 (only available on Windows 8.1 and Windows 7) and her machine refuses to update to 8.1 so she’s miffed.
Her friend, another client, just ditched her 2nd windows 8 computer for a MacBook Air, I enjoyed setting it up and delivering it to her. She’s happy and my other client is a bit jealous...
‘...and gives it a name.
POS?
Started switching from XP to Mac’s in 2007. Completed the process in 2010.
Still use Win 7 at work. But like OSX waaaaay better.
Last Christmas my granddaughter got a laptop w/ Win 8.
That is without a doubt the most unintuitive ,madding, frustrating program I’ve ever used.
Cured me of the silly thoughts I had of getting a cheap PC laptop.
Oh, and to top it off I was in Best Buy recently. Took a tour of the Surface Pro 12 “tablet.
$1300 !!!
Heck, for that I can get a nice 13” Macbook Pro.
A no brainer.
There will be no start button. There will be no icons. There will be no menus.
The ‘user experience’ will involve blinking a certain number of times to launch applications or touching one’s nose to a certain location on a touchscreen.
Microsoft had better get it right. They have botched their ambitious attempt of Windows, Phones, XboxOne all rolled in one ‘user friendly’ OS vision.
It’s all good trying to capture new young and hip users, but not allow perfectly good old system(s) to be available to their old customers is one big fatal mistake.
Microsoft is essentially dictating to their ‘loyal customers’ that THEY decide what’s good for them.
New Microsoft Door 1.0?
Crash!
Somewhat off topic, but is there anywhere one can buy Apple OS software? I have an iMac that I turned into a Win 7 machine after, in its Mac iteration, it ate 2 years of pictures, music and documents by performing an unplanned self initiated hard drive reformatting. Anyway it will run as a Windows computer, but doesn’t like to. I would like to reinstall the Mac OS and find someone to give it to. So far I haven’t found a source for said software. Is there one out there?
I don’t see how idiotic companies like “Carbonite”, “Sugarsync” and others survive Microsuk latest offering.
For $100 per year you receive 5 full copies of “Office Pro” for 5 computers and up to 5 tablets or phones and, and 1 terrabyte of storage per copy.
Bonus! You can bring up your office suite, personal preferences and have access to all documents stored from any web connected device, anywhere in the world.
that’s less that $10 per month and delivers so much value for the money than those chumps.
Just means fewer legacy programs will operate.
It seems awfully soon to have a whole new Windows out since the last one... almost as if the last one was a big flop or something....
I KNOW! Name it ‘Bob’.