Tech Ping!...........
Keep trying MS, keep trying. Eventually you’ll get it right.
I am confused. A best buy sales person showed me it takes about 3 seconds to set a default to use the old start menu interface on Windows 8.
Is this tech agitprop?
I just put Ubuntu on a chrome book in part because I could not stomach windows h8. MS is behind in mobile, they pissed of the long time pc user crowd, sql slower, exchange and sever products are relics; they are not too big to fail. Xbox and office are not enough if they continue to make blunders in the OS and fail to catch up in the mobile market. Hey MS Google has your MOJO, Samsung has the coolness and Linux has the geeks, innovate or wither and die.
Y’know, it is about time to ditch the “Windows” moniker.
I'd call it a bigger blunder than Vista, which was at least usable to a legacy-system user. 8.0, not so much.
Many of Vista's difficulties stemmed from unsigned drivers, which was at least explicable. 8.0's difficulties stemmed from a UI change so sudden, complete, and mandatory that even those of us who figured it out were wondering why we were forced to. For those on 8.1 now who are wondering what the fuss was about, that was it. There was no Start menu unless you went to a third-party vendor to make your shiny new box usable. That will definitely give people heartburn, especially people who are expected to support users who are blaming the whole thing on them. Which they were. :-(
In future, Microsoft should seriously consider making an “ala carte” operating system, that could be designed by users online, troubleshot by Microsoft to insure maximum efficiency, then burned to disk and mailed to that user.
To start with, there would be a flat rate for the baseline parts of the OS that all systems would have.
Then for every major component selected by the user, they would see a chart of other elements not on their system needed by that software to function. And they would all be sold as a component package.
Granted, expert users would likely post their own templates of optimal systems for different things, for instance with systems optimized for gaming with minimal and high security Internet. Likewise businesses would want systems that were all business and high security from hackers.
Importantly, Microsoft could then sell its custom OS for much less, yet make more money with component buys and regular maintenance upgrades and optimizations, because they would retain OS designs for custom users.
This gives the added bonus of having segregated data, so that every year or two, users could do a clean install without loss of data, eliminating the OS detritus that tends to build up over time.
So many Windows users with so much Hate for Windows
I H8 Windows 8.1
Had to buy a new laptop three weeks ago, and so far I have found no changes from W7 and XP that I like.
If they could combine the stability and common sense operations of XP with the way W7 easily networks and installs new devices, I’d pay to upgrade. Right now, I’m seriously considering paying 25% of what the new laptop cost to go back to W7.
Thanks... I was going to read this thread now, but I’m busy trying to load iOS 8.0.2 on all my devices after uninstalling iOS 8.0.1 from all my devices which was installed on all my devices as as upgrade to iOS 8.0.0 on all my devices following its recent release as an iOS upgrade for all your devices ......
I hate windows 8 (well not as bad as I did when it first debuted), but every time I make some move with my finger on the slide pad on my laptop that it finds in a straight line it shifts me to another windows based program from the one I am currently using, either that or changes the zoom of my browser.
It’s so annoying.
The idea is to hardwire up as many brains as possible Stepford Fahrenheit 451 style. And if not successful, force it through the government Extortion-Care style.
This site has a few more photos of Windows 9
http://winsupersite.com