Samsung announces Series 5 and Series 7 Windows 8 tablets with S Pen apps, optional keyboards
Windows Me, Vista and now Windows 8... beta versions released as the next new thing. Ain’t gonna be swiping my screen to try to make this clunker work.
I’m a big ubuntu fan, but since they are going unity, I decided to give windows 8 a try in my lab. Once you get to know the tricks to get around in it, it is not too bad. I am tinkering with both windows8 and server 2012. With enterprises just now really getting into window7, I don’t see windows8 being adopted en mass, but some features of 2012, like their redesigned server manager are pretty cool. I don’t care for the blocky looking graphics though. I assume that is for the benefit of tablets.
At home I still use Xp Pro and my laptop uses VISTA which so far runs pretty good. How would you game on W8???
I have zero experience with Windows 8.
However, after reading many articles about it and paying attention to Microsoft’s history, I’m predicting Win 8 will be a failure a la Windows Vista.
Vista 2012.
It looks like an operating system for morons.
Win7 was bad enough with the ridiculous ribbon menues. And the ‘links’ are no longer obvious (as in a buttons). Instead, one has to move the mouse pointer all over the screen to ‘discover’ ahhhh! there’s the link. And their file explorer that jumps around and hides items is another problem.
“The familiar “X” is gone. Now you have to tap a window until it changes size, then drag it to the bottom of the screen, and for some reason, this doesn’t always work with every app.”
Just dang.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4Z_qG6YJIM
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No, thank you.
WTH??? MS needs to fire some people here!
First the screw up Office with that cryptic, useless “ribbon” interface. Now, they’ve decided to dumb down Windows with the Playskool interface. That is downright kindergarden-ish. Something I’d buy for a 2 year old!
Change for the sake of change is the only way you can get people to “upgrade” when their current operating system does everything they need.
I understand that Windows 8 has several advantages.
1. It’s quite a bit faster than Windows 7.
2. It has better boot security, to prevent rootkit malware from taking over.
3. I has better printer setups.
On the other hand, it seems to be designed primarily for touch screen iPads, which I don’t use. I prefer a laptop on my desk, with a screen big enough for easy reading.
I believe you can get it from most computer makers with a keypad and mouse already installed, and also that you can fairly easily install the old desktop if you prefer it. I believe that Dell, for instance, will let you order it already set up with these options in place.
On the other hand, my experience with operating systems in the past has left me with two rules:
1. Don’t upgrade systems. Wait until you buy your next computer with the new system already installed.
2. Don’t be in a rush to buy a new system. Wait for the first Service Pack to fix any lingering problems that weren’t fixed in Beta.
MS is offering a very low price upgrade. But I would hesitate to take it. I’d rather wait a bit.
User inyourface is one thing, the internals another.
The Windows concept of the keyboard and the screen
being the computer’s console which means in terms as old
as computers, the one and the only and the last means of
access to the CPU, is flawed from the getgo! Windows user session in this arrangement hangs = the computer hangs,
there is no other session to which you could switch and
free the hanging session. How do you spell “PRIMITIVE”?