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To: SeekAndFind
Not a fan of the Metro-sexual thing they are pushing on their customers. I really don't see windows 8 working out in the business environment with the stupid metro-sexual start screen with colored blocks that resemble the romper room area in certain McDonalds restaurants, which is supposedly good as a touch screen interface. Do you want your next start screen to look like this?

Then they stupidly made no way of reverting that atrocity to the classic start menu and unless there is a revision to be made in the release candidate version, there will be no classic interface.

2 posted on 06/03/2012 7:36:21 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Blue Highway

One other gripe is you need to have a live.com or hotmail.com email account, and before getting to the metro sexual screen you need to log in to your email account.


5 posted on 06/03/2012 7:38:21 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Blue Highway

One other gripe is you need to have a live.com or hotmail.com email account, and before getting to the metro sexual screen you need to log in to your email account every time you reboot the computer.


6 posted on 06/03/2012 7:38:40 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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That appears to be a completely useless OS. MS still has the bad assumption that people use their bloatware instead of their own programs. I’m sure each of those blocks work with their own bloatware; IE, Media Player, Gaming Center, MSN Messenger, yadda yadda... For most other people who don’t use their programs, it will probably be a headache to use them around these pods.


8 posted on 06/03/2012 7:40:39 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: Blue Highway

I’ll stay with WIN-7 Pro as long as I possibly can w-wo/support, since it’s as good or better than XP Pro was (IMO), and then go to a Mac or Linux. Screw MS and this Win-8 crap BS.


12 posted on 06/03/2012 7:44:49 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (All liberals & most demoncraps think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
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To: Blue Highway

Uh oh....Vista II in the making


19 posted on 06/03/2012 7:57:09 AM PDT by catfish1957 (My dream for hope and change is to see the punk POTUS in prison for treason)
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To: Blue Highway

I’ve been migrating to Linux for a number of years, this might be the final incentive. I’ve got a real estate program that only runs in IE is the only hangup.


31 posted on 06/03/2012 8:06:55 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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46 posted on 06/03/2012 8:27:05 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ('RETRO' Abortions = performed on 84th trimester individuals who think killing babies is a "right.")
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To: Blue Highway
I'll stick with Windows 7,I tweaked it a bit,this is my Desktop.


50 posted on 06/03/2012 8:36:45 AM PDT by mdittmar
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To: Blue Highway

The reviewer seems to have missed the major part of windows 8... It is designed for touch screen systems, so working with a mouse you dont derive the full advantage of the new UI. I ran the recent releases and it took a few mins of getting used to but once you figure out the context menu available to every app and how to get to the traditional desktop it was fine.

It brings the ease of use of tablets to the PC for those who want it, and those who don’t can just go into their traditional desktop.


56 posted on 06/03/2012 8:44:51 AM PDT by battousai (Conservatives are racist? YES, I hate stupid white liberals.)
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To: Blue Highway

Horrible... it’s the ‘new coke’ ...


67 posted on 06/03/2012 9:05:15 AM PDT by GOPJ ( "A Dog In Every Pot" - freeper ETL)
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To: Blue Highway
looks like Tetris...
83 posted on 06/03/2012 10:41:46 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Blue Highway

An OS for the insipid, the illiterate, and the lazy. Not for doing business on. It’s as though someone on the MS team is intentionally pushing consumers towards Mac and Linux.


85 posted on 06/03/2012 10:52:58 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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