Your OneDrive storage will be as easy to access as the “C: drive,” so all of your documents, personal files, photos, etc. will go right to the cloud without having to think about it. looks like Win-7 is here to stay...
Posted on 07/28/2014 4:25:25 PM PDT by markomalley
It was the OS version of “New Coke”
I’d be cool with a Windows J.A.R.V.I.S, but I want to be able to pick from a list of celebrity voices. Cause Morgan Freeman telling me directions or reading me a recipe for blueberry muffins on demand would just be awesome.
Agreed. My only experience with Windows 8 was in repairing a friend’s computer that had it installed. My impressions of it, and admittedly, they’re limited, is that it was a dumbed down piece of garbage. I hated it.
Twenty years from now will be a generation that never even heard of Microsoft. Lucky them.
Give me an update and support for XP and I’ll pay for it like it’s a new program and immediately “upgrade” out of 8.1.
Then you are in a very tiny minority. I have used Windows since before Windows actually existed (it was run-time environment used to run a graphical application called "In-A-Vision" (later "Micrografx Designer")). Window 8 simply sucked. Big-time. NOTHING worked in any familiar fashion.
Trying to use a "phone oriented" interface on a desktop machine was simply ridiculous. And having a "touch-screen" on a desktop machine is equally ridiculous.
Thanks God M'soft is FINALLY getting a tiny clue about what it's customers actually want.
That makes me cringe. The entire idea of Windows is second rate. Always has been.
I normally use Mac OS X, however I have VM running Win 7 for the time I need it. I have tried Win 8 and can’t stand it
As a tablet OS Win 8 would have worked, as a desktop/laptop OS it was bound to fail.
Windows Vista was hilarious. I remember the first person I know who got one. I was the big computer savvy guy who was going to show them how to use it. It literally took about 15 minutes to boot up. Then it just got stuck all over the place. People were taking them back. What a train wreck.
But the beauty of Microsoft is that the foundation was built so well by such a ruthless competitor that none of that mattered. It was new technology that everyone wanted and the way it broke was exactly the way it was supposed to work.
If you Argued against microsoft products it was like telling everyone that you were stupid and you just didn’t know how to use it.
Brilliant.
Win 8 was the final straw for me (Windows user since 2.11)...been a happy full-time OSX user for little over a year now. I keep a Windows 7 box around for a few non-OSX games I have.
Why am I supposed to change just for Microsoft’s sake? There is little TV reception is this area thanks to the government but I have several old TV sets that do not need regular updates software replaced or patched. My old trucks are fun because I still can work on them not like windows 8 when it gets screwed up. Making things different does not make them better. Windows 8 is kinda like putting the steering wheel and gearshift of a car in the trunk! Some one would think it is really neat.
Exactly. Win 8 is horrible and cost me many work hours.
Microsoft aspires to be Google+.
Recognition that the Windows team at Microsoft is composed of autistic idiot savants who have no connection the normal human race. It is like General Motors saying "We're sorry the car is impossible to drive, but look at the neat torque curve on this scope here."
Me too. The TI-994a was a sweet piece of gear. I learned how to program on that, and then got an Apple //e.
Your OneDrive storage will be as easy to access as the “C: drive,” so all of your documents, personal files, photos, etc. will go right to the cloud without having to think about it. looks like Win-7 is here to stay...
You'd think that Microshaft would have heard the very clear message after Windows VISTA!
So, I haven't had a chance to run Win 8, will Win9 be free to people who bought a Win8 machine?
Will you stop with the Linus crap. The overwhelming majority of computer users lack basic skills to use a Linus operating system.
The Windows 8 interface is OK for portable devices - tablets, phones - but not for any desktop/laptop used for more than e-mail/surfing the web. For more serious applications (in my case CADD and programming PLC’s and other process control systems), the OS is unusable. The programming tools control platforms I work with (Rockwell Automation and Emerson Process Management) run better on 7 Pro.
Small consolation when a new owner can't even figure out how to start the stupid thing; all the rest doesn't matter.
Old apps will run on Win 9 huh?
Really?
OK... where's the nearest computer geek school?
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