With 8.1, I find video and photo processing at least 3 times as efficient...everything opens much faster, and I had no complaints before with windows 8. I open directly to the desk top and put all my app short cuts there. I like though when I go to the tile screen, there is a circle with a down arrow and when I click it all my apps and sub apps come up neatly and efficiently laid out...I can take any app and make a short cut on my desk top.
What I hate are the millennial whining techno utopians who whine and moan about perfectly functional software not having this feature or literally not syncing telepathically with their pseudo intellectually superior mommy coddled egos.
Their so called opinions get into blogs and facebook pages and thus regular folks who may need to upgrade to a superior product are made afraid to do so.
There are attempts being made,(some of which may be being fueled by alarmed progressives who fear what computers have done in disseminating conservative points of view) to talk down home computers, to introduce the notions of storing private info on “cloud platforms” with access only thru “smart phones” whose access to the web could be easily terminated at the cell towers...where as local systems of PC’s (even if regional terminal hubs are jammed) can be shared and connected via local hubs or wirelessly as necessary. Always keep a local back up of one’s important data!
Thanks very much. I also agree about the cloud. My working copies and first backup copies are always local. I was sad to see Windows Home Server bite the dust - had to make other arrangements.