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[Fatesrider]

Make the switch? As in take what's working for us now without any learning curve or hassles, spend money for something we already have and deal with something different that may or may not work as well as what we have now?

What kind of nutjob would DO that?

[JamesVelasquez]

The metro UI is basically "Dumb as Rocks" mode, People were to stupid to click on Start and then go to programs that they starting putting everything on the desktop, then one day some one checked and saw they had over 100 and though, oh the "majority" of users (read the stupid ones) put everything on their desktop and dont even bother with the start button.

I have no Touch screen, i dont want people touching my screens because i dont want oil from their skin on my screens, Why the heck do i want to have to clean my screen every 5 seconds when there is a another smudge on the screen.

W8 will fail, because eventually everyone that watches porn will realize how bad a touch screen interface is for the "majority" of society that ultimatly decides what technology survives. maybe not at first but when all their equipment starts to fail they wont be using "touch based" for very much longer

[joecooler]

Interesting. All three of my win 7 installs at home have become polluted, in different ways, and I am well past the time when I need to reinstall them. However, because I tweak the system in some ways that were easy under XP, but much harder under 7, I have been dragging my feet, and as a result slog along with systems that are operating in far less than optimal modes. This refresh/reset concept would be a life-saver, and possibly even worth the switch to Metro, which I personally am not excited about.

[joecooler]

Interesting. All three of my win 7 installs at home have become polluted, in different ways, and I am well past the time when I need to reinstall them. However, because I tweak the system in some ways that were easy under XP, but much harder under 7, I have been dragging my feet, and as a result slog along with systems that are operating in far less than optimal modes. This refresh/reset concept would be a life-saver, and possibly even worth the switch to Metro, which I personally am not excited about.

[Vulpinemac]

Fatesrider, on 06 September 2012 - 10:25 AM, said:

Make the switch? As in take what's working for us now without any learning curve or hassles, spend money for something we already have and deal with something different that may or may not work as well as what we have now?

What kind of nutjob would DO that?

Considering he clearly stated "Works Better" along with listing several tools included to make troubleshooting and repair easier, the better question is, "What kind of nutjob would NOT do that?"

[Vulpinemac]

JamesVelasquez, on 06 September 2012 - 11:20 AM, said:

The metro UI is basically "Dumb as Rocks" mode, People were to stupid to click on Start and then go to programs that they starting putting everything on the desktop, then one day some one checked and saw they had over 100 and though, oh the "majority" of users (read the stupid ones) put everything on their desktop and dont even bother with the start button.

I have no Touch screen, i dont want people touching my screens because i dont want oil from their skin on my screens, Why the heck do i want to have to clean my screen every 5 seconds when there is a another smudge on the screen.

W8 will fail, because eventually everyone that watches porn will realize how bad a touch screen interface is for the "majority" of society that ultimatly decides what technology survives. maybe not at first but when all their equipment starts to fail they wont be using "touch based" for very much longer

Let's just say that ten years from now you'll be as far behind the curve as you are now with Windows original tablet version. It seems Apple succeeded where Microsoft failed and now Microsoft is again trying to beat Apple to the punch. Hey, if you don't mind always being "second class", then stick to your old, boring, time-consuming habits.

[only]

JamesVelasquez, on 06 September 2012 - 11:20 AM, said:

The metro UI is basically "Dumb as Rocks" mode, People were to stupid to click on Start and then go to programs that they starting putting everything on the desktop, then one day some one checked and saw they had over 100 and though, oh the "majority" of users (read the stupid ones) put everything on their desktop and dont even bother with the start button.

I have no Touch screen, i dont want people touching my screens because i dont want oil from their skin on my screens, Why the heck do i want to have to clean my screen every 5 seconds when there is a another smudge on the screen.

W8 will fail, because eventually everyone that watches porn will realize how bad a touch screen interface is for the "majority" of society that ultimatly decides what technology survives. maybe not at first but when all their equipment starts to fail they wont be using "touch based" for very much longer

The smartphone & tablet revolution wouldn't have happened if touching your screen & spreading oil was such a big problem! Whether you like it or not, you can't deny that touch is the wave of the future.

[HOODY]

" Even if you already have Windows 7 and you’re happy with it, spend the $40 on Windows 8 while you can and just file away the OS until you need it."

Yup, thats what I had planned on doing all along, since I got this laptop after Jun 2.

I will download the $15 upgrade, install and download the media player thing for free, than burn the whole thing to a image and restore my backup image of my W7 until the time that the SP's start to roll out from all the complaining to let us old W7 desktopers have our startup back . BTW I'm wondering, will the W8 desktop still allow you to put your own desktop picture up?

But as said, I can't pass up the low cost for a new OS and the Pro version at that for 15 bucks, when I have W7 home premium.

[groberts116]

only, on 06 September 2012 - 12:38 PM, said:

JamesVelasquez, on 06 September 2012 - 11:20 AM, said:

The metro UI is basically "Dumb as Rocks" mode, People were to stupid to click on Start and then go to programs that they starting putting everything on the desktop, then one day some one checked and saw they had over 100 and though, oh the "majority" of users (read the stupid ones) put everything on their desktop and dont even bother with the start button.

I have no Touch screen, i dont want people touching my screens because i dont want oil from their skin on my screens, Why the heck do i want to have to clean my screen every 5 seconds when there is a another smudge on the screen.

W8 will fail, because eventually everyone that watches porn will realize how bad a touch screen interface is for the "majority" of society that ultimatly decides what technology survives. maybe not at first but when all their equipment starts to fail they wont be using "touch based" for very much longer

The smartphone & tablet revolution wouldn't have happened if touching your screen & spreading oil was such a big problem! Whether you like it or not, you can't deny that touch is the wave of the future.

Touch is part of the evolution of change. Eventually speech recognition will be improved to a level of accuracy that makes it useful...speech recognition when it performs flawlessly will be the future computer interface.

[groberts116]

HOODY, on 06 September 2012 - 12:44 PM, said:

" Even if you already have Windows 7 and you’re happy with it, spend the $40 on Windows 8 while you can and just file away the OS until you need it."

Yup, thats what I had planned on doing all along, since I got this laptop after Jun 2.

I will download the $15 upgrade, install and download the media player thing for free, than burn the whole thing to a image and restore my backup image of my W7 until the time that the SP's start to roll out from all the complaining to let us old W7 desktopers have our startup back . BTW I'm wondering, will the W8 desktop still allow you to put your own desktop picture up?

But as said, I can't pass up the low cost for a new OS and the Pro version at that for 15 bucks, when I have W7 home premium.

The desktop, with the exception of no aero, is still the same. The start UI is just that a start screen replacing the start button and vertical pull down menu.

[laserwizard]

groberts116, on 07 September 2012 - 02:17 AM, said:

HOODY, on 06 September 2012 - 12:44 PM, said:

" Even if you already have Windows 7 and you’re happy with it, spend the $40 on Windows 8 while you can and just file away the OS until you need it."

Yup, thats what I had planned on doing all along, since I got this laptop after Jun 2.

I will download the $15 upgrade, install and download the media player thing for free, than burn the whole thing to a image and restore my backup image of my W7 until the time that the SP's start to roll out from all the complaining to let us old W7 desktopers have our startup back . BTW I'm wondering, will the W8 desktop still allow you to put your own desktop picture up?

But as said, I can't pass up the low cost for a new OS and the Pro version at that for 15 bucks, when I have W7 home premium.

The desktop, with the exception of no aero, is still the same. The start UI is just that a start screen replacing the start button and vertical pull down menu.

I'm testing a free program, "classic shell" that re-creates the start button and can emulate XP style start menu - I also have the regular Win8 running on another computer. I will be switching to Win8 from XP on all of my computers that currently can upgrade. It is a no-brainer - these machines are running, starting, and closing faster than with XP and everything I ran on XP runs on these computers. I wanted to hate Win8, but it works and there has yet to be a system crash - I've pushed these systems and installed everything I can to test the stability. I couldn't be happpier - and with classic shell, the Start Screen is history (not that it bothered me), but I wanted to see how much classic shell would slow things down. No problems.

[nonseq]

test 9/8/12 1927

[LiveBrianD]

laserwizard, on 08 September 2012 - 02:39 PM, said:

groberts116, on 07 September 2012 - 02:17 AM, said:

HOODY, on 06 September 2012 - 12:44 PM, said:

" Even if you already have Windows 7 and you’re happy with it, spend the $40 on Windows 8 while you can and just file away the OS until you need it."

Yup, thats what I had planned on doing all along, since I got this laptop after Jun 2.

I will download the $15 upgrade, install and download the media player thing for free, than burn the whole thing to a image and restore my backup image of my W7 until the time that the SP's start to roll out from all the complaining to let us old W7 desktopers have our startup back . BTW I'm wondering, will the W8 desktop still allow you to put your own desktop picture up?

But as said, I can't pass up the low cost for a new OS and the Pro version at that for 15 bucks, when I have W7 home premium.

The desktop, with the exception of no aero, is still the same. The start UI is just that a start screen replacing the start button and vertical pull down menu.

I'm testing a free program, "classic shell" that re-creates the start button and can emulate XP style start menu - I also have the regular Win8 running on another computer. I will be switching to Win8 from XP on all of my computers that currently can upgrade. It is a no-brainer - these machines are running, starting, and closing faster than with XP and everything I ran on XP runs on these computers. I wanted to hate Win8, but it works and there has yet to be a system crash - I've pushed these systems and installed everything I can to test the stability. I couldn't be happpier - and with classic shell, the Start Screen is history (not that it bothered me), but I wanted to see how much classic shell would slow things down. No problems.

Start8 is pretty good at emulating the Windows 7 start menu, aside from not launching itself automatically on a fresh boot. (It does if I log out and log back in however.)

[madhu]

Good article

[nipz]

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Make the switch? As in take what's working for us now without any learning curve or hassles, spend money for something we already have and deal with something different that may or may not work as well as what we have now? What kind of nutjob would DO that?

I am that nutjob. It is only $40 and after playing around with it for a couple of weeks can see that it is an improvement. There was a small learning curve of 10min for me (more of finding things than anything), I would gladly have this over my current Windows 7 and definitely over the macs I used for four years.

[amj2012]

N body can tell if I can get it as a separate item like the Aplle Io6, like my son said, you have already paid a XXXX dollars for the hardware by Aplle, so an OS would be peanuts?

Can anybody tell what the price is?

[amj2012]

what is the price of a windows 8 out of the box?

[compnovo]

amj2012, on 22 September 2012 - 11:22 PM, said:

what is the price of a windows 8 out of the box?

It looks like it may be around $100 after the discount period expires.
http://www.zdnet.com...s-7-7000004361/

[JosephLCooke]

Screw Windows 8, it's charms, and anyone involved in its creation.