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Windows 8: Crap

I love 8.1.

It is fast to boot and shut down, and has been very stable.

I took a few minutes to configure the start screen, and while I am not fond of the fisher-price look, it makes finding and opening my favorite applications much faster than mousing-around the old start menu.

Right-clicking the windows icon on the desktop gives convenient access to all sorts of things that make managing my machine easier.

That being said, if you're a computer dummy, it could be challenging.

> That being said, if you're a computer dummy, it could be challenging.

Two points, smartypants.

1. The vast majority of Windows users soundly rejected Windows 8, not because of the OS itself (which is great) but because of the godforsaken Metro UI. Most of those running Win8 were forced into it by the purchase of a new computer with Win8 preinstalled. Few users upgraded to Win8 after the initial "Oh boy!" wore off. And the rapid widespread uptake of add-ons like "Classic Shell" indicate how much people hated Metro.

2. Microsoft made arbitrary, capricious changes to an established 15+ year old UI with over a billion users. Doing that has less effect on the newer users. It's the experienced users who have more trouble with "change for change's sake". The "computer dummies" never got all that proficient on the standard UI, but the experienced users did, and Metro pulled the rug out from under them.

You can take your sarcastic arrogance and place it (gently) in the shade.

While Windows 8.1 was a huge improvement over Windows 8.0 (just like Windows Vista Service Pack 1 corrected a lot of the ugliness of the original Windows Vista release), you still had to deal with the full-screen Modern tiled interface a lot of the time. No thank you.

At least in Windows 10, on desktop and "conventional" laptop machines, you deal primarily with the Desktop interface so familiar with Windows 7 and earlier users.