smeezekitty :
It is no more monopolizing than what Apple does with their software being tied to just their hardware.
That is a big deal! I don't buy any Apple products (except vintage stuff) for that very reason
Your logic is akin to saying that its okay to steal because you know someone else who did and got away with it.
Its absolutely wrong and such practices should be illegal
The only ones you cannot disable it on is the OEMs but on custom boards you have the option to disable it.
Again a big deal. A good portion of computer sales are OEM because people are too stupid or unwilling to build their own
But the lack of ability to later install the operating system of choice is a bunch of immoral garbage.
And what about laptops?
Most OEM laptops are using a pure UEFI BIOS without legacy support so some OSes wont boot to them.
That is OEM choice though. If you have been dealing with PCs, you would know OEM BIOS tend to be very plain and option free apart from setting boot device.
Duckhunt :
ekagori :
I don't get the hate towards 8/8.1... I give MS credit for at least trying something different than every other os under the sun. The start screen is a good idea that needs polishing. It's way easier to organize and find often used programs on the start screen than it is to look for them by either filling your desktop with icons, filling your task bar with quick launch icons or clicking start->all programs and searching through an archaic list of hundreds of programs. People say searching is a pain in 8, you hit start and start typing, easy and intuitive. With 7 you hit start, click on the search bar and start typing, it's actually an extra step in 7, and it's not like you can multi task while using the search bar in 7, so jumping to the start screen in 8 is inconsequential. It's time to try something new with an open mind, bashing MS for trying something new is like bashing auto makers for giving us infotainment units in our cars and telling them that we want our old numbered buttons and power and volume knobs because we like having our beloved 6 preset stations and we can't stand having menus to go through and having more options in our cars.
The media player plays in its own window and takes up too much room. The windows media player on windows 7 is better then the windows 8/8.1.
Most folk know this. You obviously don't use it.
Duckhunt :
WSW :
Some rumors about Windows 9:1. There is a 256-bit high resource version for GPGPU--mixed mode intel chip sets2. One version Bill Gates wanted was a LCARS touch screen for home theater (star trek os)3. A large tablet version to compete with "N-Macs" or 50K buck tablets on the ISS4. A "Mars version" that has NSA custom chip sets..and can pass through the Jump Gate to Mars DELTA forces...it has PSI sensors and can interface with Alien Tech.There that is enough for those who need some "cool factor" to drool on.Next Victim WW
Some rumors have it that windows 9 will not even have a windows media player and you have to pay extra for that.
The windows 8./8.1 media player is a piece of sh+t. You can not get it to work on the desktop, it works in its own desktop and takes up too much room. Anyone who can't get why people hate 8/8.1 is that they don't use it. Windows 7 is better then windows 8. Why?
I use it and it saves me time. The windows 8, takes my time away and wastes my time. It seems to be faster and work ok with windows 8 designed motherboards. The windows 7 hardware is not always recognized. I know of whole IT departments who have 200 pcs (775 motherboards) that do not have audio working properly on pre-windows 8 motherboards and then rolled back to windows7. I know first hand that Usb windows 7 audio devices are not working properly with windows 8/8.1
You sir, are full of it. You really are. First off, there are two media player apps. The Music App and WMP. WMP is the same version 12 as in Windows 7.
Secondly, if you know of IT departments that are still running the extremely outdated LGA775 socket then they are fools that need to learn when they should upgrade systems. LGA775 hasn't been used since 2008 and getting parts is now becoming very hard and very expensive.
As well, most audio devices still have a generic Windows driver, much like systems with even older than 7 era audio chips will load a generic driver. 8 has the same drivers to load.
rockinrobbins :
This is just pandering to a bully. Microsoft wants us to move from a multi-tasking, millions of colors, aero, wash fills, prompting system to a pick your choice of a dozen single, opaque colors and a screen full of rejects from the Lego factory. Then you have apps which insist on running full screen, do not multitask, do not prompt you with available possibilities.....why, DOS 3.3 was this good! Windows 3.1 was significantly better.Microsoft is trying to get us to happily downgrade our capable and sophisticated computers into a collection of cell phones. If we don't want to, they'll scare us into abaindoning Windows XP, quitely drop the guillotine on all further Windows 7 sales, cut off OEM Windows 7 availability and just FORCE the market. After all, it's not as if the chumps have any choice, is it?Well, Steam thinks you have a choice. And if they think so then you DO have a choice. Ubuntu and other flavors of Linux are primed and ready. You already know how to use them. Their dark age is over and the operating systems are darned capable, better than Windows (for instance, Ubuntu 13.10 immediately recognized my Wacom graphics tablet and hooked it up without even asking. Windows 7 was entirely mystified.) and everything is free--software and operating system. Yes, you can buy commercial software for it if you need to.Microsoft has about one more chance to get it right. Then they could be joining Borland, Word Perfect, Lotus, all fine, dead company. It will happen very quickly if they screw up. The columnists in Microsoft's pocket will not be fazed. They'll just sell out to the next bullly.
I wonder, do you get just as mad when your AV company upgrades their scanner to a much lighter and better one and you have to pay to get the features? Sure you can keep using the one you have but most companies only update the definitions and even then they might not always do that.
Are you also mad that most software companies are no longer going to support XP with new products? Or that most hardware vendors are no longer putting out updated or new drivers for XP?
Could it be that these companies know when to just move on?
Most businesses have moved on from XP. Hell look at the Steam Hardware Survey. Windows XP is only around 6% of all the systems they surveyed. 8 is doing better than XP.
XP is old. Only those with very specific hardware that needs it will use it and that is a very small minority.
Why don't you go to Intel and AMD and complain that you couldn't put a i5 or FX-8000 series CPU into your 13 year old motherboards. That is the same thing as asking why Microsoft no longer wants to support XP.
smeezekitty :
Ubuntu and other flavors of Linux are primed and ready. You already know how to use them. Their dark age is over and the operating systems are darned capable, better than Windows
They have a solution for that too: Secureboot
Secureboot is actually a great feature for regular users. It lets the OS control the boot and it stops things from loading during the kernel load time, like those annoying viruses that take over the PC from the FBI.
I have not found one 8 machine from an OEM with Secureboot on it that has one of those viruses. They still had junk software but not boot time viruses.
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