[softwarecreator]

I have Win 7 at home and Win 8 on my work laptop. I find them both to work great. I had no problem switching to W8 and do not understand the problem others are having. IMHO it’s become sort of a custom to badmouth every other Windows release and quite a few of these people are just jumping on the bandwagon.

[rockrr]

I didn’t care for Win-8 until I found Classic Shell start menu. I haven’t had any problems with it otherwise.

[freedumb2003]

>>IMHO it’s become sort of a custom to badmouth every other Windows release and quite a few of these people are just jumping on the bandwagon.<<

I am an ultra-techie and I can’t stand W8. I just run it in W7 mode and pray the whole damn screen doesn’t fill up (meaning I tripped a W8 landmine in an application).

W8 sucks the sucked sucker.

[mountainlion]

Windows 8 won't even hook up to the internet now. Trying to get the 8.1 update was worse than getting a virus. It is good that yours works and you like it. When a greedy company has to change its product regularly to sell new stuff and say we will under no circumstances help with the old stuff because we want to make money on a new one, it is time to step back and look for something else.

[prisoner6]

Dittos! Mrs p6 and I were concerned when she bought a nice new laptop with W8. Both of us used XP at work. Within a week no problems. I did install Classic Shell but there is no need for it. Both our workplaces are now on 7 or 8.

In fact we both prefer W8 now.

I still have XP on an older deskktop that I used mainly for my wireless webcam and wireless weather station but XP stumbles and locks several times a month. When I run them from her laptop no problem.

Same with photoshop and several other programs we use.

Looking forward to building an up to date desktop with W8 or maybe 9.

[Wonder Warthog]

"I have Win 7 at home and Win 8 on my work laptop. I find them both to work great. I had no problem switching to W8 and do not understand the problem others are having. IMHO it’s become sort of a custom to badmouth every other Windows release and quite a few of these people are just jumping on the bandwagon."

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.

[publius911]

I have Win 7 at home and Win 8 on my work laptop. I find them both to work great. I had no problem switching to W8 and do not understand the problem others are having.

That's among the top 5 most condescending and arrogant, smug posts I have seen in my 15 years in FR.

Have you considered volunteering for the Amazon Paper White Kindle help forum?