[citation][nom]dalethepcman[/nom]Welcome to IT.. Everyone whining and bitching about change need to remember these words, "Adapt or die." If you chose the latter then good for me, I chose to adapt. Let me know if the below line looks familiar, and seems comical to you."You'll never need more than 640K of memory"Now replace that with "You will never need anything greater than windows 7" or "You will never need touch sensors on a desktop."Plug your kinect into your windows 8 rtm box and you will see what Microsoft has planned. Honestly, I can hardly wait.[/citation]
Thankyou!!!! I deal with this every day with all the Linux people that volunteer at my work. "linux will take over" "Linux is better" "Windows is too expensive" " Win8 is dumb". Seriously, it is little wonder why I have a job and they are job hunting.
Win8 have some issues? absolutely! Are they critical design flaws? generally no.
The OS is tight, efficient, works equally well on gutless mobile platforms as it does on beefy multi-screen monsters (provided you have 2GB of ram), and when you have a touch screen or some form of gesture support via a newer style mouse/touchpad, or a device like leapmotion or kinnect it becomes amazingly obvious that this OS is actually very good at supporting an extremely wide variety of input sources (wish that voice commands were better though). And what's more is that I do not feel gimped at all when using a traditional keyboard and mouse with the one exception of the rt. click context menu coming up from the bottom of the screen instead of a traditional context menu, everything else is a good experience with mouse and keys.
At any rate, the point is that you need to learn not only windows8, but also OSX, iOS, WP7/8, Android, and a few Linux distros if you want to get a job these days. There are simply too many devices, and to be honest the days of a sysadmin having any say at all in what hardware is used are entirely gone. Learn it, learn to love the finer points of all, and find tools to help with the failings of every OS.
All that said, the big update screwed up 2 of the 6 machines that I have been testing win8 on. The laptops were fine, wife's PC was fine, and my test bench rig was fine. But my big i7 rig has some issues now, as does the example PC I have at work. I think it is a simply driver issue, but I have not had time to really get into it yet. Like I said, win8 is pretty good... but not without some issues.