On another thread a poster referred to the changes as “BFD”...
My response...
The problem is that we still have Boomers who cannot comprehend ‘copy-paste’ functions... who’s CHILDREN have spent HUNDREDS OF HOURS on the freaking phone walking them through a basic email setup and NOW who have to learn something NEW.
BFD??
YES!
In my family, this is a really, REALLY BFD!
My mother’s been without a computer for 8 months because she can’t understand Windows 8 tiles. NOBODY can explain it to her.
For her, computers are over. She’s DONE. FOREVER. This ended emails, FB, videos of her great granddaughter, Google, YouTube videos... all of it. She just can’t.
This leap was too big for a lot of older people. I’ve got two others who’ve been left behind and one who never caught up after Windows 98.
You can load software to make windows 8 look just like windows 7.
Look up “classic shell” for windows 8.
Turn the tiles off, install Classic Shell on her Win 8. You get back to the classic XP through 7 style interface.