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To: Cringing Negativism Network
WinXP was a great OS. Win7 has been OK, and fairly stable. Win8/8.1 is for hobbyist who have one account per computer.

I find it frustrating to do anything serious with Win8, so it is just a web surfing/e-mail checking/game-playing toy. The real work gets done by my WinXP/Win7 machines.

What really ticks me off is that there is no way to configure Win8 to look/operate like Win7. Since Win95, there were always some options to have the look and feel of different versions. But now we are stuck with crappy phone OS overlayed on a crippled Win7 OS.

16 posted on 12/18/2013 7:16:05 AM PST by kosciusko51 (Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
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To: kosciusko51

“I find it frustrating to do anything serious with Win8, so it is just a web surfing/e-mail checking/game-playing toy.”

As someone else once described Win8, it’s a teenage girls telephone.

Even the commercials for Win8 presented it as a toy, something to play with.

If you’ve had any type of training to use a computer consider yourself lucky.

For those of use that haven’t, going from XP to Win8 is mind numbing.

If you want to do something, go to the app store and buy an app.

Read the fine print and it appears you give them permission to get into your computer any time they want. Just for updates don’t you know.


30 posted on 12/18/2013 7:54:17 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: kosciusko51

http://www.classicshell.net/downloads will help a lot.


66 posted on 12/18/2013 7:38:17 PM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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