> The problem isn’t with the users, it’s with Windows 8. It sucks. Period. End of story.
Well, to be fair, Win 8 is a fine OS under the hood. It just comes with a ridiculous default user interface (Metro). In time, I hope Microsoft backs that out and reverts to something normal desktop users find comfortable.
I very much doubt that they will. There’s been talk already that 9 is going to be brought along more quickly. The OS may work fine under the hood, but I don’t want to spend a lot of time under there, I want the interface to work right. Metro reminds me of the old Tandy OS interface, or other tile-based menu stuff from about 25 or 30 years ago.
I went from Win7 to Win8.1 and experienced a performance upgrade - more solid stability and lightning fast speed.
I never used Win8 but in Win8.1 you can boot directly to the “Win7 Desktop” and bypass the tile screen by just checking an option box.