Your common sense approach to Microsoft products is not welcome on FR, FRiend. We are an MS-hating bunch here.
/sarc
Silliness aside, you are spot on with your assessment of Win8, but I disagree that Win7 was the “prettier” OS. I think Win8 wins across many measures for aesthetics.
Win7 had the “bubble” feel to it. Win8 has gone back to the “2D” look and feel where flat and edgy wins. Full disclosure, I work in Win8.1 and Server 2012 R2 all day, every day, so I may be biased but I’m also experienced.
I’ve had my imac less than a month and it already got stuck in “your computer had to restart due to a software issue” loop.... wouldn’t go into safe mode.
And a few other problems. My last computer was win 7 and stayed on for months at a time.
The only solutions I saw on any forums was to suggest that it was 3rd party hardware. Which there was none. But then again for other small problems, the only suggestion I’ve seen for anything is that it is 3rd party something. Never Apple. I hear the support is pretty good though.
Some things ios does in a slower and dumber way than windows though. Can’t drap and drop from memory cards to folders. pretty lame
I'm finding my conservative, common sense approach in general is increasingly unwelcome here on FR. Guess I've been around too long. Not many of us Class of '98 left on here...
Silliness aside, you are spot on with your assessment of Win8, but I disagree that Win7 was the “prettier” OS. I think Win8 wins across many measures for aesthetics.
Aesthetics are more personal preference in nature than "fact based." It's like art. Some people love Picasso, people like me can't stand it. (Since my office window looks out on Dirksen Federal Plaza in downtown Chicago --- the murder capaital of the world --- where a huge Picasso is housed, I speak from some experience here.)
Win7 had the “bubble” feel to it. Win8 has gone back to the “2D” look and feel where flat and edgy wins. Full disclosure, I work in Win8.1 and Server 2012 R2 all day, every day, so I may be biased but I’m also experienced.
Disclaimer: I have a slight vision impairment so I cannot speak to the "bubble" effect you see. I see a more "flat" and "opaque" or "transparent" effect in Windows 7. Windows 8's flat/pastel colored tile effects aren't visually appealing to me. I frankly never understood why Microsoft introduced two completely conflicting UI paradigms in Windows 8. Especially when one of those paradigms was completely contradictory to the concept of windowed applications (the Metro UI.)