“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.
No matter what I do it will not remember user IDs or passwords for web site. I have selected what should be selected and still - nothing. It asked if I wanted to remember passwords for a few sites but never did.
Viewing photos is a PIA, watching movie clips is a PIA and trying to shut down the damn thing - PIA.
Listing items on ebay is a disaster when you try to upload photos. Each time you select a photo you are brought back to some location other than where your photos are located. So, if I am selecting photos from a file named ‘ ebay ‘ in the pictures library I have to dig through everything to get back to the file for each photo I upload.
Downloaded Chrome, which partially fixed a few problems.
Really, whomever came up with this can take a long walk off a short dock. I can not stand this damned thing.