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.
> ...it reminds me of Windows 9...
8. The key next to 9. More coffee.
Windows 8 is very sharp and defined via today’s hi-resolution monitors. It is cleaner than Windows 7. It gives me a better feeling using it though I still have and use Windows 7 machines.
The windows 3.1 comparison? I don’t get it. I have seen 3.1 on computers though I really started out with Windows 95
This is a windows/apple thread. All of them are.