Windowscare... the fix that didn'tBIG DEAL ,, MS is tired of paying for high call center / helpdesk bills and will now make the settings people have always wanted the default...
Windowscare... the fix that didn'tUh, we've been trained for graphical interfaces over the last 30 years. It's difficult to see where a change would be an obvious improvement.
(I've experienced 8.0 and found it to be NO BIG DEAL.
I’ll stick with my Macs........
Uh, we've been trained for graphical interfaces over the last 30 years. It's difficult to see where a change would be an obvious improvement.
(I've experienced 8.0 and found it to be NO BIG DEAL.)
yay! you mean it will be more like windows 7?
It’ll crash more spectacularly than a Zeppelin?
Change for the sake of change is killing Windows.
They have reached a point where they cannot add actual improvements, so they just change things to give the appearance of being improvements. By doing so, they make computer use more complicated.
Many people still do more that just read email and load web pages. They actually use their computers to do productive work.
Mozilla is doing similar with their Firefox rapid release insanity. They took a good browser and have been trying to kill it since about version 7.
So.. Windows 9 will only be functional if you are always online with a high-speed connection?
“Microsoft is about to introduce big changes”.
Oh god, here we go again,,,,
BOOKMARK.
heh heh...Window 9.0 will be codenamed “Linux”
...or ever wish to.
In other words, they’re gonna put it back like Winows 7.
Windows 8.2 - The Return of Clippy
I’ve been running 8.2 since the first of the month.
It’s not coming, it’s here.
Now I’ll give the thread back to the naysayers.
Those two OS's were basically rock-solid and have only needed incremental changes since then.
Apple seems to have the right idea by charging only a nominal fee (or nothing at all) for their OS upgrades since then.
Microsoft on the other hand, continues to try to re-invent the OS so that they can continue to keep their OS business a cash cow. What they really should have done was stick with XP - update it incrementally - and focus on other market segments. Had they done that, they probably wouldn't have missed out so much on the MP3 player, smartphone and tablet business. In fact, they could have been driving those markets, instead of Apple, Samsung and Google.
There may be a time down the road where the basic desktop OS needs an overhaul, but Windows XP and Mac OSX are still the gold standards. Which is why so many people find Windows Vista and Windows 8 to be a sad joke.
Windows 7...okay, that's a sold OS but really not too much different than XP (from a user standpoint).
I hate windows 8. I am forced to use this crap because the engineering software I require is only ported to windows. Win 7 has been pretty good to me. Change is not always a good thing. Wasting weeks discovering new “features” is not a good use of time in my shop.