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To: Swordmaker

Windows 8 looks very good. Much better than any Apple OS. I like the Windows 8 GUI better than Windows 7. The problem is no start button....Microsoft made an stupid mistake by not including a start button for desktop and laptop users

So you download and install “Start 8” and you have your start button back. Works like a charm. http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/

I never use the Windows 8 so called apps and I bypass the apps tiles. All that stuff is for touch devices such as tablets and smartfones. When I boot up I go from log-on to desktop with ye old start button


18 posted on 03/27/2015 2:32:04 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: dennisw
First you said:
> Windows 8 looks very good. Much better than any Apple OS. I like the Windows 8 GUI better than Windows 7....

Then you said:
> I never use the Windows 8 so called apps and I bypass the apps tiles. All that stuff is for touch devices such as tablets and smartfones. When I boot up I go from log-on to desktop with ye old start button

You just said two things that disagree completely -- your statements contradict each other. Oh well.

IMO the Windows 8 GUI has a look and feel very much like the Windows 3.11 GUI from 1993. In fact, it's nearly identical. I know, I used 3.11 a lot back in the day.

Face it. Windows 8 is a fine operating system with a terrible user interface which even Microsoft now admits was as misguided as Vista's. Hopefully Windows 10 will be better. The Technical Preview isn't half bad.

OS-X, on the other hand, is a fine operating system with a pretty damn good user interface as of Mavericks. I'm not a fan of Yosemite, it reminds me of Windows 9 too much.

LOL. What a stupid pasttime, arguing about computers. I'm glad you like what you like. You really should start a Windows Ping List. Seriously, this forum is missing one and I've hoped someone who is a Windows fanboy like yourself would start one, I'd join up -- I have 5 Windows machines at home and around 120 at work and would appreciate it.

But please, take your silly self-contradiction about Windows away from my early morning reading and go bother some other thread. This is an Apple thread. Thanks.

22 posted on 03/27/2015 6:06:32 AM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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