Windows 8: What We've Learned Lately

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Posted 08 August 2012 - 08:08 AM

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#2 BradForbes

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Posted 08 August 2012 - 08:26 AM

wtf ?

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Posted 08 August 2012 - 08:44 AM

Can it get any worse?

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Posted 08 August 2012 - 08:49 AM

I didn't think it was possible to get any less enthusiastic for this version of Windows, but this article drained my enthusiasm pool even further.

So here's where the rubber of version upgrades meets the road of anti-competitive behavior: Would ANYBODY buy this OS if it weren't about to be preloaded on every new PC being sold?

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Posted 08 August 2012 - 08:54 AM

WOW... I thought I couldn't get any lower in my feelings for Windows8 UI. Don't get me wrong. I like the under-the-hood stuff. But this UI is just awful. Thanks Microsoft for lowering my expectations even more!

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Posted 08 August 2012 - 08:56 AM

Looks like I'll be skipping Windows 8 just like I did Vista!

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Posted 08 August 2012 - 09:07 AM

rixware, on 08 August 2012 - 08:49 AM, said:

Would ANYBODY buy this OS if it weren't about to be preloaded on every new PC being sold?

Yes. A Win8 tablet is on my Christmas list. And on a lot of other people's.

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Posted 08 August 2012 - 09:17 AM

I can't wait to get Win8, and probably a Surface too. It's about time that we were offered an alternative to the childish icons-only outdated iOS and the goofy mess that us Android. Convergence between mobile devices and the desktop will happen, no matter how much you resist. Sheesh, it reminds me of when my dad refused to use an ATM! Move on people...

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Posted 08 August 2012 - 09:18 AM

Windows 8 is a big disappointment for me. I hope 9 will be an upgrade to 7 and not 8
P.S.Keep your dirty fingers of my screen.

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Posted 08 August 2012 - 09:18 AM

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Posted 08 August 2012 - 09:20 AM

Surely the Metro background image will be hackable in the registry.

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Posted 08 August 2012 - 09:21 AM

Microsoft's Windows 8 is making me very interested in Android tablets.

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Posted 08 August 2012 - 09:26 AM

jeklind, on 08 August 2012 - 09:18 AM, said:

Windows 8 is a big disappointment for me. I hope 9 will be an upgrade to 7 and not 8
P.S.Keep your dirty fingers of my screen.

Ok then, here ya go... http://www.microsoft...mouse/3LR-00004

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Posted 08 August 2012 - 09:26 AM

Wow, this is just butt ugly Metro Frankenstein scree. I am Windows users for all my life but I cannot get over the Metro screen - jumping back and forward. It will work on tablets for sure but MS, please, get me the option to disable absurd Metro with it's invisible charms...
I will definitely skip Win 8 and stay happily on Win 7.

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Posted 08 August 2012 - 09:27 AM

opiniator, on 08 August 2012 - 09:21 AM, said:

Microsoft's Windows 8 is making me very interested in Android tablets.

I'll sell you mine...

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Posted 08 August 2012 - 09:35 AM

Microsoft should have at least made it possible to remove the Metro head from the Windows 8 beast. Windows 8 would probably have been pretty nice if Microsoft hadn't turned it into "the two headed monster" about to attack the world, like a bad 1950s scifi movie.