[mountainlion]

I have been dealing with computers for 40 years. I have been through FORTRAN, FORTRAN 77,machine language, Basic, Lenix Basic, Windows 3.0... , Windows 95,98, XP, Vista and now 8 and 8.1 and now you say 8.11. Luckily I missed the ones in between. Are they ever going to get it right? Younger persons using the latest cell phones are used to it and have no problems. I am tired of the changes which I see as nothing more than marketing gemmics to sell products.

[rarestia]

I cut my teeth on DOS 4. I’ve worked in every major Windows revision since 95 and more recently with Linux. I don’t disagree with you. The large majority of changes between Win8 and 8.1 is aesthetic. They were responding to the Metro debacle.

Now you have 8.1 update 1 (8.1.1) that’s required by Microsoft or they won’t support you. It’s a debacle, I don’t disagree, but Windows 8, in general, is not a terrible OS. There’s a slight learning curve, but it’s much faster than 7 in most areas of performance.

[TexasGator]

“ I am tired of the changes which I see as nothing more than marketing gemmics to sell products.”

You see no benefit of a windows-based system over having to machine-code?