SlitelyOff :
Been getting random NMI_HARDWARE_FAILURE BSOD's since 8.1. For some reason they initially occurred about every couple hours, drove me to the point of almost going back to W7. However, lately, they have only been every week or two...still way too many times, for sure.
What I hate about 8.1 is that they eliminated many of the shortcuts that I used to use (right click on an SSID to get to status, etc.) that I used to use all the time and have made it more difficult. I am not 100% sure that the 8.1 is a fundamental update to 8, they simply added/removed different little things, from I can tell, that give it a slightly different appearance and a few things actually work differently than in W8 (running Pro of both, btw)
I am also a little confused why several of my drivers no longer work from 8 to 8.1 and I can't find updated ones for 8.1 on several devices. Also, for some reason 8.1 broke my ability to connect to certain SSID's that were working just fine in 8 and a driver update did not fix the issue.
I guess that I am either missing something OR 8.1 is not the panacea of updates that it was made out to be.
8.1 is a change, a change to quite a few things so drivers are not always going to work from 8 to 8.1. You need to go to the manufacture but if they don't provide drivers, there is nothing Microsoft can do really.
Quarkzquarkz :
8.1 is a joke, windows 8 is a joke. vista was a fail, xp and win 7 are the best. nuff' said.
XP is meh. It was good. It hasn't been for quite a while. & is still a good OS. Nothing bad staying with it. But 8/8.1 has a lot of great improvements that 7 will never see.
And at some point 7 will become the next XP, such as native GPT support (you cannot boot to a GPT partition in 7, requires if you want a single partition larger than 2TB).
hpolk :
It's exactly the same thing Balmer did when Windows Vista failed badly. He made a ton's of money from the case and instead of releasing service pack to Vista he made Windows 7 and resell this 'new' OS once more to all stupid people, like me. Well, I just stopped using Windows since.....Windows 7 will be the last good Windows as we know ....
I think you forgot the 2 service packs that came out for Vista and the platform update that pulled a lot of the new features from 7 and integrated them into Vista.
Vista got plenty of love. 7 was just still better.
And people said the same thing about XP being the last good Windows, and 2000/98. And DOS. Its a vicious cycle where people act like in the future Windows will be horrible and fail and yadda yadda yadda.
8 is a great OS. Good improvements to the desktop UI and good improvements under the hood, which is what a OS needs.
Most people are taking one feature and solely focusing on that as if that's all you ever see or use in the OS and therefore it is BAD.
Really wish people would get off the whole Metro thing.