[The KG9 Kid]

We had a teleconference this week where the presenter used their new Windows 8 laptop in a screen-sharing session via GoToMeeting.

Nothing says ‘professional’ like a Windows 8 tile to MSN reading ‘Inside Justin Beiber’s Marijuana-Fuelled Party Plane’ broadcast to the client’s executive staff.

Hey hey, ho ho, Metro interface has got to go.

[Dan(9698)]

I have a friend who has a Dell desktop with Windows 8.

It doesn’t have a touch screen and looks almost exactly like Windows 7.

I don’t know about the internal workings, but anyone who is using Windows 7 would feel right at home.

[Lake Living]

Thank you Steve Jobs that I do not have to live in a Microsoft world!
Let the flaming begin ;- )

[aimhigh]

3 decades ago, I heard a Microsoft salesman talk about their products. His sales pitch focused on how Microsoft programmers created multiple ways for accomplishing the same task. For instance, setting a word to bold in Word can be done by ctrl-B, or right click and click bold, or click on the menu and select the bold icon. Their stated goal was to allow people who have various learning styles to quickly adapt to the software.

Microsoft blew it with Windows 8 by eliminating known ways of accomplishing single tasks. They need to return to their earlier programming style.

[dangerdoc]

Win 8.1 working well with Start 8.

One question though, why does Win8.x take 10-15 seconds to see what’s in a directory?

Every version before just shows me the content, Win 8 tells me no files found with a little timer bar along the top of the screen and after awhile, my files show up.

Since I don’t see this as a common complaint I’m assuming I have something set up wrong. Don’t mean to hijack the thread but I got help on a similar thread with another Win 8 problem.

[ShadowAce]

[Revolting cat!]

I’ll wait until my Windows 7 wears out before I upgrade to Windows 8.

[The Cajun]

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