blazorthon :
How many people who don't use Windows is completely irrelevant. What I provided is as real-world of a test as is possible because it eliminates the extreme bias of people who don't like change regardless of it being for the better, worse, or about the same in effectiveness.
I find there to be significant install time and boot time differences between 7 and 8. Like I said, update your drivers for game issues. IDC about Metro as far as this is concerned as I've said many times. MS implemented it poorly and I don't care to use it because of that.
Of course Windows 8 is just an upgrade over 7, although I wouldn't call it minor; I'd call it moderate.
The laptop/desktop Windows 8 is not a tablet OS no matter how many times you call it that.
I have absolutely no idea of what you're going on about with Classic shell feeling Linux-like nor how that could be bad.
Windows phones aren't dropping off and they're not gaining much because of anticipation of the next version of WP. Furthermore, that's a completely irrelevant example from a different market in a different situation. Using it as an example would be like using iOS's market share in an example to prove a point about OSX.
I find there to be significant install time and boot time differences between 7 and 8. Like I said, update your drivers for game issues. IDC about Metro as far as this is concerned as I've said many times. MS implemented it poorly and I don't care to use it because of that.
Of course Windows 8 is just an upgrade over 7, although I wouldn't call it minor; I'd call it moderate.
The laptop/desktop Windows 8 is not a tablet OS no matter how many times you call it that.
I have absolutely no idea of what you're going on about with Classic shell feeling Linux-like nor how that could be bad.
Windows phones aren't dropping off and they're not gaining much because of anticipation of the next version of WP. Furthermore, that's a completely irrelevant example from a different market in a different situation. Using it as an example would be like using iOS's market share in an example to prove a point about OSX.
I have every single update on this laptop and the game issues still happen, i benchmarked windows 8 while booting and i find it to be the same if not longer at times to boot when compared to 7. Windows 8 has the same performance if not worse in some small areas such as cineBench were the single core performance dropped by over 6% and the only area its faster in is multimedia programs and that is usually by 3% or so nothing to drastic. Besides having a fresh install(which is why most people "feel a faster OS" windows 8 doesn't really feel faster or slower than windows 7 and i notice the minor speed upgrades always.
By saying that and by saying the new task messenger is glitchy since it doesn't save your settings when you restart the PC. Windows 8 isn't a moderate upgrade every single thing is the same as windows 7 when you disable metro. for desktop users and laptop users its a side upgrade or a minor upgrade, it may even be and most likely will be a stressful experience for lots of people you know all the people i mention(with real test's) and normal people not nerds(majority of people who buy things) and after using metro its definitely not ready for prime time yet, however you put it this is the main focus to windows 8 not its ISO compatibility out of the box not its new copy and paste features and not its task messenger its metro if metro sucks windows 8 will fail.
Also a simple look at classic shell(which doesn't seem to skip metro even with the option enable at boot) shows me it doesn't look like a windows add on it reminds me of something i would find on linux and i'm a windows fan i generally hate the look of most distros of linux that is probably the main difference between us i love windows and i don't want to see it changing like this most Tech people hate it which is 110% different than windows 7 which was praised by everyone and me i loved it from the beginning and found it to be more stable in alpha stage then vista with service pack 1. Normal people really hate it even worse than techs.
You keep saying its because people are scared of change when its somthing so buggy yes i'm extremely scared change by itself isn't good or bad and without a DEFAULT option not none of this 3rd party crap this change is not good.
"Windows phones aren't dropping off and they're not gaining much because of anticipation of the next version of WP. Furthermore, that's a completely irrelevant example from a different market in a different situation. Using it as an example would be like using iOS's market share in an example to prove a point about OSX."
For starters OSX doesn't look like a tablet OS so its not comparable to IOS in any shape or form windows phones look 100% like metro and metro is the number 1 focus of windows 8 microsoft fails to market windows phones in a way to get users and MOST people with tablets also have a smartphone and their smartphone has IOS or android on it and those same people will just buy a Ipad or Android tablet the sales of windows 8 will show this over the course of 3 years. What they need to do is make a separate product like Apple did and put that on tablets and leave their only market besides the xbox alone.
Windows 8 the next zune in popularity i think so.