But then--I run Linux.
Here’s a little bit of trivia: Intel’s fabrication plants still use a number of stand-alone Windows 95 computers as station controllers in the production of modern, 64-bit processors.
Seems that Windows 95 runs just great unless you let people near it.
I care. Deeply. Really. I won’t buy it.
Nope, don’t care about Windows 8. None of my computers will run it, and besides, Windows XP serves my computing needs just fine.
When all my geriatric computers crap out (my laptop dates to 2006, and my oldest computer is a PIII), then I’ll think about a Win8 machine. But not until then.
XP was fine.
7 is fine.
We don’t need an update for a few years.
Another MS bash article.
No, we should care. MS is dumb and whatever OS you use is cool.
Stop using Windows so civilization can proper and unicorns and rainbows can live in peace. If MS went bankrupt and disappeared it would be like so awesome and junk.
Is this about the sum total of what all the responses to this story are, or do I need to include some stuff about how much X MS products sucks, how someone’s grandma was confused or how their 3-year-old cried at using it or how no one really likes it because they are forced to use it or because they are dumb?
Care? About an operating system? They’re just tools, while I care FOR my tools to keep them operational I have never cared ABOUT my tools.
They finally got it right with Windows 2000, and that’s where I got off the upgrade train.
The Rolling Stones’ “Start Me Up” was licensed to highlight the operating system’s revolutionary new “start” button and the Stones themselves performed at a Microsoft event on the release date. It was the pinnacle of Microsoft’s dominance over the computer industry.
That was a time when people really cared about Windows.
It was also a time when people cared about the Rolling Stones.
When a browser, that is a program running on top of the operating system, and NOT the operating system itself, for those outside the planet, connects to a website which is slow in responding, such as NPR a few minutes ago for me, when connecting to something called World Cafe, the whole computer freezes under Win 7, and earlier, until the website responds, Ctrl+Alt+Del has no effect. This is fugging unacceptable in 2013, problems of this type had been solved in computer operating systems 30 years ago if not earlier!
My first impression of Windows 8 was that “this is an operating system devoted 90% to playtime”. Just like the people it was designed for.
If I ran a business and had to buy multiple licenses of this I’d be going ape-shiite.
Should You Care About Windows 8?
No. It's a horrible muddled mess of a user interface. A turd.
I predict the Windows 7 "downgrade" is going to be very popular, and that Windows 7 will be around for a long time.
I got the Windows 8 os on a notebook. They were trying to follow the smart phone phenom and have “apps” all done with the ‘finger swinger’ and also try to keep some Windows 7 similarities. They failed miserably on both counts. I am using it and still trying to configure my brain to its quirks. Not fun! I’m glad I still have my Windows 7 laptop as the backup/primary, for work.
Had to get a new Windows laptop quick for a project 2 weeks ago - normally, I’m a Mac/Linux user, but had to run something on Windows.
Got stuck with Windows 8 - it sucks. Period. There are no redeeming features about it. It is NOT a desktop OS and it does a poor job imitating a tablet OS.
Worse then getting stuck with Vista when I needed another Windows laptop in a hurry 6 years ago!!
Terrible because they didn’t even bother to make their own software compatible, i.e., their PICTURE IT program won’t run on it. My next purchase will be Apple !