ohim :
If the guys bashing 8 just for the sake of the internet hate bandwagon,should stop and take a better look at 8 you would probably have noticed that 8 is snappier than 7 in every way
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Windows 8 fails only in your minds because as a mature human you can`t get used to another interface, which by the way you will see very rare. ~~
I know i was rude, but to me most people bashing 8 is like back when XP came out, everybody was telling XP users how 98 is actually better than XP ...
Win8 is not another Vista, Vista came out on computers that didn`t quite had the power to run it smooth and thus making it look very bad.
A) All new installs of an OS are always snappier. But when it comes to calculations (rendering, etc) its still the same. And if you're talking about the stupid boot times, who gives a damn? Win7 is so stable, many people don't turn them off, they put their system to sleep. Boot time = 1-2 seconds. Oh, LinuxMint boots as fast as Windows8 on the same hardware and its not using a "hybrid sleep-wake" boot process.
B) It has nothing to do about being to OLD. Many of us use Windows/Android and iOS every day. Its a crappy UI and badly design desktop layout and visually a POS design that went "hey, lets go with mono colors" no talent, no vision, no skills. Metro is useless design for a desktop computer. Its a badly designed touch-interface - it SO BAD that MS designed new short-cut keys for their tablets and desktop computers! hint: keyboard is not TOUCH.
C) *sigh*, Windows98 was never as good as XP. The issues with XP was that it was different and fixing / dealing with problems work different that Win9x and its Activation was something many people hate and still hate. Going into DOS mode in Win9x was handy for problems that were not possible in XP. The usage of XP wasn't the problem. The StartMenu is a bit different, that is it. If I had a choice to use XP or Win8, I'd rather go BACK to XP... but there is also LinuxMint.
D) No, W8 is not Vista... its worse in many ways. Its a stupid desktop UI with no actual thought on usage. "Just press Windows key and start typing" = wow, we have this with Win7, it doesn't require a full screen.
And no, Vista was always THAT BAD, it was a crappy OS and still is compared to Win7. A person shouldn't need a quad-core 16GB computer to do email and watch kitty videos. It ran like shit because how it handled memory and sloppy code. Win7 is not much different from Vista, but they added some new features, took out a lot of junk and fix the broken junk under the hood. A lot of people went back and installed XP over their vista systems. Vista crashed a lot, Vista wouldn't wake up or shut down, vista was slow when you did more work.
So yes, today... on my 6+ year old thinkpad with its bottom end core2 CPU and 2GB of RAM - it runs windows7 fine. If I throw in an SSD, it'll do wonders (which I'm thinking of doing).