Windows 8

Basically this for me. I just got used to it really fast and it's fine to me.

 

Best thing about Win8? Having the same customer come back into store with their two new laptops they got for xmas with YouTube and other flash related issues three times. Now I know Flash is pretty much dead now, but the lack of support for it is pitiful.

 

Honestly, Microsoft is going to have to do something quite unexpected to get me to upgrade from Windows 7. It feels so good to not be using Vista anymore, but I'd take Vista in a heartbeat if it meant avoiding Windows 8.

Windows 8 is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

 

Win8 seems made for touchscreens, which I hate. Although I haven't used it yet so I can't really have an official opinion, but I've not heard much positive feedback.

 

I don't really have any complaints about Windows 8 as a whole, although I do not enjoy the tablet set up for the start menu, as well as a lack of a standard start menu option for shut down. To shut down your pc you pretty much have to shut it down manually or go into the settings and hit shutdown, it tends to be more of a pain than it needs to be.

 

the history applies to all this touch screen mumbo jumbo... back in 70's the fad were light pens, you interfaced trough a wired... em... pen, touching things at screen, like the stylus on a PDA, this arm weary system failed miserably to the mouse simplicity, touch screens would fail equally, (at least on desktop computers)

 

I personally prefer Win 7. It's not overly complicated, and it's similar to XP. And as for games, I'm not sure if 8 has been out long enough to have games made for it.

 

Windows 8 looks absolutely awful... and I'm way too satisfied with Windows 7 to even consider switching over. Even if I end up building an entirely new PC down the line, I'll stick with Windows 7 if possible.

 

Now that Windows 8.1 is coming out I think it's a good time to revive this thread, lol.

I've been using Windows 8 (first beta, and then the full version) for over a year now and I love it. For a gaming PC I would highly recommend it - it's way more resource efficient than the past few Windows OS's and boot time is mad fast. For the few times i've ever needed to Ctrl+Alt+Del out of something, the new task manager is beautiful - everything is so organized and clean. If you were using Windows 7 before, you will recognize all of the same menus in control panel and around the technical sides of the OS.

My biggest advice to people upgrading; ignore all the people freaking out over the new start menu. Yes it's different, yes there is no start button, but all you have to do is slide you mouse a few extra pixels down to get to start (or use the Windows button on your keyboard, that is what it's there for after all); and even tho its full screen it functions exactly the same way the start menu did before, only now its actually nice looking and is easy to click stuff. Everyone sees the start screen and looses their marbles over it for no reason just because it's different. Once you load the Desktop, you won't even notice that you aren't using Windows 7 (It is identical to windows 7 in every way, except with more and better features). I don't know whether to laugh about or pity the people claiming XP is better... just, no, lol. I'll admit that Vista was a bit buggy, and maybe XP was better than Vista, but Windows 7 and 8 are for the most part functional and can do a ton of things that XP can't - not to mention the fact that XP doesn't even get updates anymore because it's so obsolete (read as vulnerable to viruses and crashing without support).

Another benefit, is that unlike previous versions of Windows, Windows 8 has a built-in antivirus that is free and works great - It used to be known as Microsoft Security Essentials but it's now just part of the background processes so you don't even need to install some bulky expensive AV software. You can if you like wasting money, but you don't need to.



at the end of the day, it's still just Microsoft Windows ... it will take a week or less to get used to anything that's different.

 

To be completely honest, I've had no problem with Windows 8 so far.
I've been using it for months now and every issue I had with it was easily fixable with a 3rd party program like ClassicShell and such. I've seen slight performance improvement in games and less resource useage which makes it a worth-it upgrade for me.

All tho I'm not a fan of the Metro UI at all. I prefer the desktop mode which I'm in 99% of the time. And luckily ClassicShell gives me an option to boot into that right away.

 

I've just bought a new rig running Win7 for over a thousand dollars.

Guess my opinion on 8.
Go on.
Guess it...

 

I'm using Windows 8 on my $800 gaming rig and loving it. It's start-ups are so damn fast! It's power consumption is ridiculously low, and I like how it has built in Movie, Music, and Xbox apps.
Plus you can just use Windows 7 without a start button anyway, and Microsoft is adding it back :/

 

Im using Windows 8.1 now, and i hate what they did there - I never even wanted the button, using the corner was fine. Now I can't figure out how to get rid of the "pointless shortcut". *Its so true tho that for months people who have no idea what they are even talking about were complaining about a "button" when what they even wanted was a "menu", so Microsoft gave them a useless button because that's what they asked for.

As for everyone else bashing windows 8; im sure none of you have even used it for more than a week; and if you had you'd know its exactly the same OS as windows 7, only it has a different looking start menu which everyone keeps losing their marbles over (for celestia's sake, its just a start menu, nothing else is different / aesthetically at least) What IS different is the price tag - Windows 7 is like 5 times more expensive than Windows 8, and has a boot time of much much longer. If you like a fast machine, with an OS that's not eating up a ton of resources in the background, Windows 8 is the way to go.

Virus protection is built-in, finally, so you won't be needing anymore bloated third party Anti-Virus software; Most people have never heard of skydrive, (its basicallt microsoft's version of dropbox) which gives you 7 GB for free and is built right into Windows 8. Speaking of networking, remote desktop has never worked as well... i use it all the time for school because i need to run heavy programs on my desktop but sometimes want to access them from some really low-power computer when im away from home. It worked alright in windows 7, but in 8 i think they got a lot of the bugs out finally (higher chance of connection success).

I've been using Windows 8.0 (first the beta, and then the full version) for about a year and a half now, on a laptop and a desktop, both have worked great and I've had no issues. Yes it takes a week or 2 to learn where they moved a few things, but if youve used windows 7 you'll feel completely comfortable with it very quickly

 

I'm a Windows 8 fan, and surprisingly, a Vista fan as well. I do like Windows 7.5., very much. It improves upon a lot of what Windows 7 had, and makes it better. All this crap about the Metro Interface can pretty much be ignored, seeing as the Metro interface can be shrugged off to the side for the Desktop, which, entirely, is a clone of Windows 7. With a few small tweaks, you can do this:


Yep, that's Windows 8 all right. I like to say if you despise Windows 8, you better not go and tell me Windows 7 is amazing, because Windows 8 and 8 are pretty damn similar.

You know you can multitask the app and desktop right?



You're ****ting me, no image BBC code enabled?

 

Remove the [noparse][/noparse] tags mate.

 

how is a start screen more of a nuisance than the start menu? The start menu in windows 7 takes more clicks to achieve the same result, of opening a program. With windows 8 you just open start, click the program (assuming you pinned everything you use regularly) and done - you just opened it, and didn't need to fumble thru a bunch of nested lists in a tiny menu list that you need to scroll thru.

Also, if you are using something so often that making just 2 clicks is a "nuisance", then pin the program to the task bar.

I have to agree with Dante, on all his points. Windows 8 is functionally identical to Windows 7 in every way, with the lone exception of a start screen, and the "ability" to use apps outside of desktop mode - you are not forced to use apps, you have the ability to. And with windows 8.1, if you boot to the desktop, you can entirely avoid anything to do with apps at all, and you wouldn't even realize you weren't using windows 7, except for it being much faster and having some more organized ribbons instead of complicated nested file menus.




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Also, I respect your bravery in coming out in favor of Vista, but I'd have to agree with the majority on that one - Vista was a rushed OS, and should have been what Windows 7 eventually delivered - but wasn't. It was horribly glitchy and broken in numerous ways; and probably was a total repeat of the Windows ME disaster of a decade ago. Windows ME, just like Vista, tried to do way too much and was not properly fixed by the time of launch, it crashed all the time and had tons of issues and then, Just like Windows 7 corrected all of Vista's problems, Windows 2000 came along and was the fix for all of Windows ME's problems - actually turning out to be a solid OS.

 

Vista crashed a lot for me, but I loved its looks and how organized it was. If they had made Vista work better, I'd love it even more. Vista is actually my favorite OS.

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