Posted on 05/19/2013 12:58:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“Windows 8 is still a new, radically different model”
No it’s not. It’s simply a poorly executed touch interface implemented on desktop PCs that retreats to a Win 7 interface when you have to do real work — and not spin on top of tables while you exchange screens with other useless 20 somethings.
They brought nothing to the UI of innovaiton. They fixed security holes. They presented more hooks to keep users ‘trapped’ by Office and Exchange.
the rest is CRAPOLA.
IMHO.
Lacks elegance? Not exciting?
The touchscreen concept may be fine for checking email and tweeting to other twits, but it does not lend itself to computer applications.
But, then, I consider texting a giant step backward.
The mistake is the belief that one OS can fit all devices.
I do as well and like it. Much more stable than prior versions of Windows. I just use a tile to go to the desktop and use it from there.
I have 4 upper-end HP machines running Win-7 Pro since ‘09, and not a glitch or BSOD, yet. Win-8? No thanks. Ever.
The problem with Windows 8 is that IT TOTALLY CHANGES the user interface into something you don’t know and is not easily understandable.
I lost almost a month of productivity on this piece o’ crapware, until I found a way to effectively remove it by installing an application that mimics the old stat menu.
Something as simple as bring up a file explorer to get to a folder containing your documents was impossibly to find.
I don’t use a computer to make videos and sound recording. I use it to do work, and nothing worked anymore.
I just got done moving 1800 workstations to Windows 7. It was a year and half project in total, from application upgrades/readiness to actual deployment. We don’t plan on upgrading to anything else anytime soon. :-)
Besides, Windows XP loses support in 2014 so I don’t anticapte the same thing happening to 7 anytime soon.
I’m not so sure. I’ve read that 1 billion computers run windoze. I don’t know if that number is accurate, but let’s assume it is...
Sales of 100,000 units of Windoze 8 [code name: McDonald’s Cash Register 1.0] / 1,000,000,000 [Windoze system computers that could upgrade] = 0.0001
This does not seem like a home run... but then I don’t run a major corporation - or use windoze
” Something as simple as bring up a file explorer to get to a folder containing your documents was impossibly to find.”
I just tried to find the file explorer
Windows key took me to the start page and I typed the letter f and it was right there on top. Pretty easy actually.
Another quick way to the file explorer is run your mouse cursor to the lower left corner and right click. A menu comes up with all sorts of good stuff including the file explorer.
Make sure you can get xp drivers for all your hardware first.
I'm mad that I didn't listen to my son and go with Mac - we thought it would be too hard to learn - LOL
1) Yes it is over a billion. But there is no forced mechanism to upgrade a PC. As you can see here, there are some people that stupidly pride themselves on running a 11-year-old copy of XP. Why is it assumed that the full complement of Windows machine are EXPECTED to be running 8? All Macs don’t run the latest version nor do all people that use Ubuntu.
Yet 100,000,000 of a billion is “bad”?
2) 100,000 units?
“I just tried to find the file explorer
Windows key took me to the start page and I typed the letter f and it was right there on top. Pretty easy actually.”
You have to realize that these guys can easily get this. They are adults.
They just dont want to have to learn anything, and think Microsoft owes them a static OS forever...or until they stop being lazy.
Eventually they will either learn because their company moves on, or they will be fired because someone else took the time to do more than sit and complain.
You talk like someone who is 15 years old. Did you know that?
When it comes to Windows 8 (An OS that I’ve used everyday for months) it is literally like listening to 15-year-olds sqwak about how literally inept they are at using it.
People that cant read, cant think, and yet call themselves IT pros or veteran PC users yet seem to have the grasp of technology that reminds you of someone that never has even used a computer in their life, but then go on about getting a Mac or using Linux, which are OSs that they will equally have to learn how to use, dont work anything like XP or 7, and will confront them with issues and problems, without ever grasping the irony.
Never mind those people running XP or 2000 or 98. I mean what do those people even represent? It’s like hearing a guy with a 13-inch BW TV hooked up to a VCR tell you that a DVR attached to a 60-inch HDTV is silly and a waste.
It is a display of absurdity masked as serious observation.
-Wont learn how to use the Start Screen = Windows 8 fault.
-PC you bought is full of crapware from the OEM = Windows 8 fault
- My PC doesnt have a touchscreen? Windows 8 is therefore completely “unusable”.
-Printer company wont make new drivers? Windows 8 fault.
-Update you applied to you computer, which works fine for most everyone else, causes some issue with you = Windows 8 fault.
It seems like the topic of Windows 8 is where usual conservative logic and rationality goes to die and people adopt the the method of thinking from the Daily Kos.
Does it make you jealous that a 15 year old has a better computer?
Eagerly awaiting your technical points defending the Windows 8 kernel as superior to the Linux kernel or Mac OSX.
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