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[citation][nom]SuckRaven[/nom]No thanks MS. I'll stick with XP and 7 on my computers. (Heaven help us all when the day comes that MS stops supporting Windows 7). Hopefully by then there will be another company instead of MS, with more than 1/2 a brain.[/citation] TIFKAM is the future. There are other options. ChromeOS is going retail... And LinuxMint is slick and clean. I'm running it on a 6 year old core2 (1.8ghz) notebook with a 5400rpm hd, and it boots up almost as fast as my i5-3570k /SSD desktop!

The price is totally cheaper than Microsoft windows. $0.00. You can try it from the liveCD. Get the MATE version of LinuxMint, it's the most user friendly version. Also get 64bit.... Of course.
 
[citation][nom]upgrade_1977[/nom]This could mean windows 7 will be my last microsoft product...???[/citation]

Me too. It was a good run fellas, but if this is the way of the future, you can have it. My last Apple computer was an apple //e 30 years ago. Maybe time to jump back to that camp.
 
[citation][nom]tomfreak[/nom]u see these kind of things every major windows release such as win95/winXP/winvista/win8. So it is not surprising. I actually wonder how long would they stick to win7 when Microsoft decide to lock DirectX12 and other new features away from win7. Laptops are starting to have touch screen, so in the future we might have our desktop LCD lying on our desk @ keyboard location replacing our keyboard mouse.[/citation]
I for one have always supported the latest releases of Windows (except 3.1 and ME). Even Vista I was behind because of the potential forward progress due to the changes to the HAL. I was an early adopter and would happily be the first one in the office to use and proclaim the benefits of the newest version. Not this time. It's so drastic, so unfriendly, so schitzo, that I just can't do it. It's just not appropriate for a work environment. Consumption of info on a tablet, while sitting on a couch, fine. It belongs there. On a PC/Desktop environment, just no.

I don't think it's more comfortable to sit at your desk and look straight down all day instead of straight ahead at the monitor, and it's definitely not comfortable stretching your arms out to touch the monitor or tablet all day.. I bet the lawyers can't wait to see those repetitive strain injury lawsuits start piling in.
 
Windows Key + X for the people who want something resembling a start button. There is no way in hell I will run Windows 8. Win7 is super stable, and is more intune to a Mouse and Keyboard.
 
The changes to me makes it more like a desktop in the metro interface. You can resize the tiles, so you can make them icon sized. Split the screen so on one part you have access to your programs, and the other your current working document; or if you have a few screens like me separate things between the screens. This makes the workflow a more of how I work with files. I mostly have things maximized on different screens with quick access to certain programs. Obviously no physical windows will still be problematic for some people.
 
So people were crying out against Metro and demanded Start Menu and this happens, more Metro less anything else. Hmmmmmmmm, people should try praiseing away Metro.
 
[citation][nom]TheCapulet[/nom]I love the Windows 8 start screen. Personally, I find it far more productive than the start bar that I literally never used in windows 7 aside from start search. I feel so alone...[/citation]You're not alone but you will be downrated to oblivion by wannabe elitists who are set in their ways. It's like arguing with DOS diehards years ago.
 
I simply will not use Win8 in its current form. If MS doesn't fix things I will be moving to Linux I think. There are a few apps I really need on Windows, but I'll find a way - Linux is getting better every day.
 
China may be heading in the right direction by standardizing on Ubuntu. If Microsoft keeps pushing its users around I won't be surprised at all if Ubuntu replaces Windows on the Desktop in 5-10 years time frame. What Linux couldn't have ever achieved on its own Microsoft seems dead set on doing for them...
 
What can be said that hasn't been said.. well I have windows 8 its ok After I got it to looking like win 7 with classic shell and a few other tweaks it works fine for the most part and yes I have tried it on 3 different pc,s bot desktops and laptop no go for me I prefer windows 7. If you have to take the time to relearn everything and make it look like win 7 why bother with it? How are the sales for win 8 look around the net you will see its like windows me dismal.. I even played with linuz zorin works wonderful but no sound no matter what I do and support for windows games well theres steam. But all and all some people like it people whom may not been around for awhile and some who been around a life time but I am sure the latter has made tweaks to make it work for them as well. It does work but at what cost with a dumb down version to the public I don't care for a touch screen at this time any bit of moisture on your hands makes they go wild I know I work for a place that has one for the register and when someone hands me 2 cold drinks with sweat on it I have to dry my hands to ring them up otherwise it goes wacky. My point if you like 7 don't go to 8 and try to make it work like it why waste money time doing so. eventually they will put something out the people want lets hope.
 
[citation][nom]alextheblue[/nom]You're not alone but you will be downrated to oblivion by wannabe elitists who are set in their ways. It's like arguing with DOS diehards years ago.[/citation]

Not liking an OS that's schizophrenic in what it tries to be, hides and scatters settings to hell and back and gets in the way while you're trying to get things done is not "elitist."

Frankly, given how MS acted during the betas (dev preview onward,) I expect to hear the day before it's released (and probably pushed to all current win8 installs) that they've blocked Classic Shell, Start8 (and ModernMix) and the like from running.

If they'd left Metro as an *option* on desktops and laptops, there wouldn't be an issue. But I have zero need or desire to have an app take my entire screen (especially with something like weather - talk about a downgrade from the little gadget.) Or, now, one of four 1/4 vertical slices of my screen, which doesn't really work with the majority of what I do. Maybe if I went over receipts all day while playing tetris...
 
[citation][nom]tomfreak[/nom]I actually wonder how long would they stick to win7 when Microsoft decide to lock DirectX12 and other new features away from win7.[/citation]

Honestly most probably will not care due to the list of top titles to support it will be slim. Since DX10 shipped with Windows Vista in 2007 there are only something like 80 games published over those 6 years that support DX10. And not even half of those were "blockbuster" games. DX11 is a little better as it has something around 60 games since it was released in 2009. But many of those to are not "blockbusters" So the point is there will not be a mad rush to get the latest version of DirectX when you know the adoption rate will be slow by developers.
 
[citation][nom]alextheblue[/nom]You're not alone but you will be downrated to oblivion by wannabe elitists who are set in their ways. It's like arguing with DOS diehards years ago.[/citation]
It has nothing to do with elitism, it's different paradigms of device controll. Win 8 is great on phones and tablets, I'm loving it on my HTC 8X. But for desktop it is not, it's like having touch screen instead of steering wheel and stick in your car. Its internals are much better than Win 7, but I need steering wheel and actual multi screen support.
 
So MS doesn't want to sell this OS either eh? Bring back the desktop or sell worse than win8. Once linux and android get games (valve helping linux) I will no longer purchase windows for the machines in our family. Windows 7 will be the end. DX12 means nothing to me :) I didn't buy Vista, no ME, No win8 and won't buy win9 (whatever they call it) until MY OS comes back. I will never touch my monitor nor do I wish to lean forward to do it, get over it and quit hiding stuff from me. I can't wait for a chrome/linux dual boot (tri-boot with win7...lol). Shortly DX12 won't even matter as games will start being made in WebGL, OpenGL, HTML5, OpenCL etc. Consoles won't support 12 anyway, so game devs will be ignoring 12 for the next 8yrs. :) Of course I think consoles will be dead by then anyway, but that's another story 😉

I could see myself buying macosx if they offered it also...Quad boot now?...LOL.
 
um Microsoft, I wanna buy what I like, consistent with what I have, and with drivers available for old equipment.
w8 is usable, till you find its irritations. Polish compatibility, Microsoft, or keep W7 FORWARD.
I mean upgrading operating system on XP and Vista computers is particularly frustrating.
The not me manufacturer vs Microsoft dance.
 
[citation][nom]TheCapulet[/nom]I love the Windows 8 start screen. Personally, I find it far more productive than the start bar that I literally never used in windows 7 aside from start search. I feel so alone...[/citation]

I'm here too. Then we are at least two non-ignorent people :)
 
[citation][nom]alextheblue[/nom]You're not alone but you will be downrated to oblivion by wannabe elitists who are set in their ways. It's like arguing with DOS diehards years ago.[/citation]

Theres tree of us... yay!
Reading the arguments of the haters makes me sad, most of the is invalid, and the rest not a big deal.
 
[citation][nom]SkegDev[/nom]@SuckRaven - how hard is it to get to control panel and other necessary places in Win8? Take your mouse cursor to where the start menu was (bottom left corner), right click on your mouse and then choose control panel from the list. Is that so hard?Everything in Win8 is comparable or easier/quicker than in Win7 so the only reason to really hate it like lots on here seem to do is due to not learning some really really simple basics of using the OS. If in doubt try the corners.It is not the fault of the OS if you cannot find the corners of your screen.[/citation]

You are being downvoted, but a person who cant see the benefit of smaller footprint with dx11 is not an enthusiast.

Technology/interfaces change; every iteration, people complain - I would wager that most of the people saying they are sticking with windows 7 are the very same people who cried over the ui change from xp.

Windows 8 is virtually identical in operation to 7, assuming you were properly utilizing instant search and shortcuts; if you are still clicking through the start menu, again, you are not an enthusiast.
 
[citation][nom]p05esto[/nom]I simply will not use Win8 in its current form. If MS doesn't fix things I will be moving to Linux I think. There are a few apps I really need on Windows, but I'll find a way - Linux is getting better every day.[/citation]

if you cant handle windows 8, your time with linux will not be kind.
 
[citation][nom]TheCapulet[/nom]I love the Windows 8 start screen. Personally, I find it far more productive than the start bar that I literally never used in Windows 7 aside from start search. I feel so alone...[/citation]
You are not alone. I am the same way. All I use the start menu for is the search and that has been significantly improved in Windows 8 and the amount of time using the start menu accounts for significantly less than 1% of my total computer usage so I am completely bewildered by the uproar. If my old apps didn't work then I would care but everything I did on Windows 7 still works fine but just with new features.
 
I don't get why a lot of you are complaining. Just start typing on the new start screen and you will find about anything you are looking for. Windows key + D will take you to the ol desktop. Windows 8 on my computer actually runs faster than windows 7 on it. Also I have been hearing good things about touchpads on laptops and than for desktops you have the logitech touchpad t650 and other touch mice. Member you can always hook up two or more mice, touch screen etc.
 
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