Chabenda
Man - is it just me or is Windows 8 a pain in the backside?? I accept that I am an ignoramus but what the hell was wrong with the tool bar to select different programs? Now I move my finger in the wrong direction on the screen and I'm in another program. This Windows 8 may be a good thing but, IMO, in a Forest Gump manner.
giggsy
Yeah, we bought a laptop with Windows 8 for one of our staff, and when I decide to use it to do some work in front of the TV or in bed, it drives me insane - like you say, one little click or movement and you're in some whole new dimension on the computer that there is seemingly no escape from...
ActionArnie
It is a royal pain in the ar$3. PC died at work and I had to switch over and it is a source of massive frustration. Just as I was getting used to it it decided to update itself to 8.1 and the frustrations started all over again.
babbalute
Windows 8 is very much the same as using any other windows package without the mouse. People who are using the keyboard commands to get around in windows(is actually really very fast if not faster than a mouse) can confirm this(mostly Americans will confirm this) Problem is that you need to remember a lot of shortcut commands and keyboard strokes. This is not required for windows 8. If ones read up on how to operate windows 8 with a touch screen (the only good way to use it) you only need to remember which stroke to apply to get where you going. It is really fast then as well as long as you have enough memory to store all open apps. It is as fast as an apple device and they as faster than a pc running windows 7pro I think so.
Gearhead
The best feature in a win8 purchase must be that you can downgrade to 7... and the best thing about win8 is that it might rid us of win altogether... 8)
AlanRatcliffe
If you skip every alternate version since 95 (and wait for the first service pack), Windows is getting progressively better (98 SE, XP, Win 7). Win 7 is actually pretty damn stable and tweaked a little strikes the right balance between usability and performance IMO.
6x9base13
Alan Ratcliffe wrote
If you skip every alternate version since 95 (and wait for the first service pack), Windows is getting progressively better (98 SE, XP, Win 7). Win 7 is actually pretty damn stable and tweaked a little strikes the right balance between usability and performance IMO.
+1 to that. Dreading the day an upgrade forces me to Win 8. 7 is working just awesomely. No slow down and never a glitch.
Being an ex IBM'er I still rue the way we lost the fight. OS2 was the best !
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RobbieZ
It seems that I might be the only one, bur sorry, I love Win8. Yes, itis not very user friendly, but once you get, or I, got used to it. I love it!
Chabenda
I don't like the way that I cannot access the tool bar at the bottom (or wherever you choose to put it) and select the program that I want - I have to go to the top left corner and click on that to get to the desk top. Then. if my finger drags in any way on the touch pad, I'm back in Chrome on Windows 8 - also a horse's buttock!!! I am a grumpy old fart, I know, but Windows 7 was much better - I don't want to learn a whole new operating system. It's like the crappy mdf office furniture that you buy these days that lasts 18 months, forcing you to redesign your office.....oh, hang on, off topic!! ?
Mixerboy
Windows 8: "kicks-ass"
Under the hood almost everything about it is better.
I never really used the start menu or any of that jazz before, it's always been keyboard shortcuts etc.
Hitting the windows key on the keyboard and typing the first few letters of a program and have it almost instantly show up etc are all features sorely missed when using my Win7 machines, amongst a whole bunch of others, kind of like you only realize how much you miss them when you don't have them.
If you get passed the start screen and mouse to the corner stuff, it's far superior, not to mention all the small niggles I constantly had with Win7 are all gone, out the box driver support is pretty impressive.
Wizard
Alan Ratcliffe wrote
If you skip every alternate version since 95 (and wait for the first service pack), Windows is getting progressively better (98 SE, XP, Win 7). Win 7 is actually pretty damn stable and tweaked a little strikes the right balance between usability and performance IMO.
+1
Microsoft uses paying customers as beta testers of their new ideas.
Takes a whole release to debug it.
lindsmuse
I'm still using XP. Just reinstalled it last week! I'm a bit worried about the day when we are all more or less forced to be using Windows 20, whatever, and I won't have done the learning curve. But theoretically it should all be becoming more and more user friendly? But if users are more and more techy - which people are these days - then I'm in for some problems.
domhatch
i've been an apple os user for the past 8 years or so, and always found it easy to switch back to windows, all the way up to win 7. now, with 8, i don't have a clue. the wife's office machine has 8 installed on it, and i am beyond clueless. maybe it's just because i don't spend enough time with it.
ah well. guess i'll stick with os x - trying to get the wife to switch to apple as well
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Chabenda
Yup Lindsmuse - agreed. This nonsense of dumbass things in the corners and using F11 etc makes it clumsy and tedious. Especially when it opens three different apps one after another, when you are moving the pointer across the screen. Chrome in Windows 8 is another pain in the proverbial - changing to full screen view and requiring another move to the top left corner before you can get back to the task bar at the bottom. Someone deserves a klap IMO.
Warren
I have two pretty new monstery machines at home both running Windows 8 (well, 8.1 now). I must be honest, I think it's pretty terrible. Interface issues aside, I just spent an evening this weekend having to do a complete re-install on one of the boxes after an update nuked my wife's machine (and none of the recovery stuff actually worked). I've had a number of issues with my machine doing weird stuff after an initial boot, only for it all to magically work fine after a restart, I've had stability issues, I've had USB devices deciding to stop working at random...the list goes on.
I didn't have any of the above issues with Windows 7, and during the Vista era I used a Mac. ?
When it's running though, it's great. It boots in about 8 seconds to the login screen and is generally pretty fast and responsive. I haven't had any of the software compatibility woes that some folks have had.
Mixerboy
Did you try just Windows 8?
Maybe 8.1 is buggy in which case I'll skip the update?
