Posted on 05/03/2015 9:02:01 PM PDT by dayglored
Have you actually used Windows 8? I mean actually used it for more than 2 minutes in a demo. If you had, you would grow to like the environment much more than Windows 7. Windows 8 is functionally more robust than Windows 7. There are more tools and functions baked into Windows 8 than there were in 7. Having been using Windows 8.1 for over a year now, I feel awkward in Windows 7. The environment is different and feels clunkier. Windows 8.1 is a polished OS with a much more feature-rich environment than Windows 7, and, quite frankly, if you're expecting Windows 7 out of 10, you're in for a surprise.
Agreed, Win7-Pro here and I like it to much. Win-10 would need to offer something
truly astounding to get my attention.
The new windows will have a different type of authorization code which will make pirating impossible.
MS should have updated XP. The redesign with ribbon menues (gosh-awful) and similar cutzie features made Win7-8 less productive.
I finally got a Win 7 laptop and desktop about 3 years ago. Took a while, but I got most of it to act and look like XP.
I did lose some software — no Win7 equivalents. I did jerry-rig some XP programs to get them to work in Win7. I did lose a laser printer that had no Win7 64-bit driver.
Many people wanted/needed productivity OS. Win8 was more of a kiddy program for tablets and smartphones, etc.
MS needs to listen to customers. Many of them still want/need productivity over cutzie.
“the game will have changed again.”
The game won’t change again, at least in a good way for Microsoft: people fled from Microsoft PCs to android and iOS not just because they wanted mobile, but also because they were fleeing 20 years of horrible experience with buggy, balky, flaky, crashy, bloated, brittle, virus-prone,literally impossible to secure, constantly updating, constant browser and OS obsolescence Windows operating systems. The last thing these people want is to be sucked back into the Microsoft world for any reason.
I know all of this because I work for a living with Windows operating systems both for business and home users.
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