Five reasons why Windows 8 has failed

ZDNet ^ | 4 March 2013 | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

[Still Thinking]

Not only do I hate the new way of doing things in widows 8, but I can’t get firefox to work with it without crashing all the time. And I hate all the other browsers.

What version of FireFox are you using? I installed FF 19 and was having fairly constant crashing too. I googled it and people were saying the problem was specific to v19 and the fix was to use the v20 beta. I loaded that and I think I might have had a couple spontaneous crashes since, but very few.

[Still Thinking]

It's a liberal cesspool of pro-death, pro-fascism, pro-Obama maggots that believe they own your hardware.

No really, tell us how you feel! JK, I feel the same way. What really chaps my hide is when they think they're entitled to so much as one CPU cycle or one byte of [your] RAM to protect THEMSELVES from YOU!! After you paid for the stuff!

[ZX12R]

What version of FireFox are you using? I installed FF 19 and was having fairly constant crashing too. I googled it and people were saying the problem was specific to v19 and the fix was to use the v20 beta. I loaded that and I think I might have had a couple spontaneous crashes since, but very few.

I'm not completely certain, but I will check. I think it was 19. I looked up the one recommended for windows 8 64 bit.

Thanks for the note, I will check and try that.

[PapaNew]

Are you unhappy with Win7? No reason to update to 8.

Like the sound of that. So far so good, so, as Forrest Gump said, "..since I've gone this far, I might as well just keep going..." :)

[hattend]

Got a new laptop and didn’t have a choice of OS.

Win8 blows donkey d**ks!

It took me three days to find how to turn off the annoying crap that shows up if you drag too quickly across the touchpad (it doesn’t have a touch screen). I was ready to toss the whole thing out the window until I got a mouse. It tamed it dow a lot.

I also downloaded a Win7 look alike desktop so I don’t have to look at all that Metro crap.

I am so glad I kept my old 6 year old laptop with XP. I hardly use the new one...almost a shame because it’s much faster than the old one. Just a pain to use. I may find a comp0uter repair shop that will downgrade it to Win7.

[dangerdoc]

bump

[eyeamok]

Yep, Secure Boot is supposed to able to be switched off, But it probably won’t work on most systems. This is why microsoft pushed manufacturer’s to make in MANDATORY in ALL BIOS’s. If it ships with Winblows 8, you are more than likely STUCK with it.

[battousai]

I think this will help many users' win 8 experience to be greatly improved...a start menu, there is a free one and the one from Stardock that cost $5, both are just fine.

IObit Start Menu 8

Stardock Start8

I recently got the Dell 12" XPS convertible; touch screen that flips inside its bezel to become a tablet, and with the addition of the start menu I am not having any issues, it feels like a faster win 7, my work apps play just fine in the desktop mode (and with the start menus above you can set it so that the computer boots into the desktop immediately bypassing the win8 start menu if you so desire). The one issue I did have was with the touch screen randomly ignoring inouts, but with some research seems running the calibration again and resetting it, has solved that issue (knock on wood!), so yes it is a bit of a learning curve to understand how some of the new ways of things work (like sliding down from top right corner to bottom left to close your tile apps, of course in desktop the good old 'x' is there), so giving it a chance still to make a final verdict.

[The Iceman Cometh]

I’m sure as a FReeper you understand the only “FR acceptable” platform is Linux, LOL.

Nothing wrong with Linux. Used it many times to troubleshoot, rescue damaged machines.

Clean user interfaces but obviously can be difficult to get peripherals to work.

[expat_panama]

...the new operating system -- Vista -- was not  better than the old operating system -- XP -- so very few people moved to it...

Many users had to move from xp to vista because they needed a Windows OS that accommodated the larger drives and ram chips.  I'm not aware of any tech reason for switching to Windows 8.

[goldstategop]

Yup.

Microsoft learned nothing from Canonical. I like Unity and I think the interface works on every kind of device you migbt have.

Mark Shuttleworth was smart enough to pick ONE interface and aggressively improve it. I find it intuitive and easy to use.

A dual interface Windows was Microsoft’s worst idea. What was wrong with the Windows 7 Aero user interface that needed to be fixed? Windows 8 with traditional UI/Metro is a worse disaster than Vista.