What Windows 8 woes? It is stable. It works well in “grumpy developer mode”. It handles exceptions better than 7 or XP.
Product critics are like pundits and movie critics.
They get paid to give opinions that are no better than yours or mine but they have a talent for being wrong.
My latest laptop came w/ Win 8. Two days later, upgraded to 8.1. Three days later, paid $118 to upgrade to Win 7. Finally, happy with the notebook.
What Windows 8 woes? It is stable. It works well in “grumpy developer mode”. It handles exceptions better than 7 or XP.
It’s the typical Anti-MS Freepers basically acting like MSNBC libs.
Take a false premise.
Dig up rumors, and just made up stories.
proclaim the whole vat of nonsense as “news”.
Post on FR.
Stand by and wait for the usual cast of Mac fanboys, Linux nutters, and the classic “OMG I love Windows XP” curmudgeons to do their usual monkey dance. Add a couple of people who still aren’t able to learn how to use it, and you have the makings of the typical Windows 8 FR post.
It was the user interface that caused the woes, not the OS beneath the hood. An office environment is Microsoft's bread and butter for the windows desktop OS. This new interface was completely different than all the windows before and very unintuitive. For the computer savvy this was a temporary, relatively minor annoyance. But for the typical office worker (such as a secretary) who isn't computer savvy it was a nightmare - everything was changed and they couldn't figure out how to work the thing. They are used to the way its always been and they pretty much spaz out when confronted with that magnitude of change.
I don’t like it. It’s on my wife’s pc. It’s too hard to find anything.