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Post your comments for Review: Pokki shows the Windows 8 that might have been here

[werewolfking]

This program reminds me of Ubuntu's Unity GUI.

[mrb186]

When I type in a search term on my PC, i DON't want web results. (I use Google for that)

[Win8User]

I've been running WIN8 for several months now. It's difficult. Thus, I loaded the Pokki program. It was not for me. Used it for two weeks and saw no benefits. It takes up so much RAM memory to run its mind blowing. So, my search continues for a more effective start button app that uses far LESS memory than Pokki.

[GerryAllenkkbk]

The Start button is gone: so what? Adapt or sink in the quagmire of yesterday. I'm 70 and found Windows 8 quite easy to use. Now, when I have to use a Windows 7 machine, I find it quaint and non-productive. Sure, lots of applications require 7; lots of CICS terminals are still active, but no one writes new stuff for it. Move along, nothing to see here.

[Dlive]

Well said old timer, (no offence). You are an prime example of open mindedness and willingness to move on to a brave new frontier. The future is now! Deal with it!

[brainout]

Uh, y'all might want to read this link before installing Pokki: click here. Apparently it monitors your usage of its software, which frankly disturbs me.

[MKZ1945]

Thanks brainout. Anytime I see the word “free” associated with software I get really suspicious. I know you’re not the greatest fan of Windows 8, but I’m much like “GerryAllenkkbk” (including age) and under the opinion that when it comes to operating systems, take some time to learn to use them they way they are designed to be used first before looking for modifiers that are probably just using the programs capabilities in some other way after you load it. Too often these types of programs, even if not security risks, cause problems in other ways, including hard crashes that result in loss of data that was in progress. I have used operating systems in the past that some businesses tried to modify in a way to increase security of their systems and the modifications were more of a nightmare then they could have ever imagined.

There is some Freeware out there that is relatively safe once you get past the installation part. Anyone who downloads these programs and does not use the custom install is probably going to end up with all kinds of crap on their computer that is mostly useless, rich in tracking cookies, and difficult to get rid of.

[ronin7752]

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The Start button is gone: so what? Adapt or sink in the quagmire of yesterday. I'm 70 and found Windows 8 quite easy to use. Now, when I have to use a Windows 7 machine, I find it quaint and non-productive. Sure, lots of applications require 7; lots of CICS terminals are still active, but no one writes new stuff for it. Move along, nothing to see here.

I doubt very much that you are telling the whole truth..... You are probably a high-end IT professional 70-year-old who works for M$. My 70-year-old low-level end user customers want to throw their Win 8 machines out the window!

[ronin7752]

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Well said old timer, (no offence). You are an prime example of open mindedness and willingness to move on to a brave new frontier. The future is now! Deal with it!

If useless, backwards change for the sake of profit is the future, Win 8 is truly its flagship.

...And we're all doomed.

[ronin7752]

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Uh, y'all might want to read this link before installing Pokki: http://www.osnews.com/comments/26707. Apparently it monitors your usage of its software, which frankly disturbs me.

Obviously Erez either did not do his research, or did not care about privacy!

[Dunstan]

You may find the loss of the Start Button a new era of computing, but it is in reality a huge backward step to the Windows3 era, with just a little bit of graphic uplifting.

[jazzy007]

I sometimes think that all tech writers got together in a meeting after testing Windows 8. They did not found any bad thing to criticize and since most of them are pro-Apple, they needed something to criticize and incite people. The Start button was chosen and led to all of them criticize the Start button.

They are concentrating in looking at the tree and not lookin at the whole forrest. Let me explain, the start is the whole screen. The shut down in now to the right instead of the left. The search, is where the Start screen is. Just start typing what you want to find in your PC and voila, there it is. What is so difficult about that?

[rajdiz]

I may be a minority in this, but I actually like windows 8, start screen included... I just use folders on my desktop to store the things I'd rather not use the start screen for and it's at least as efficient as a start button...

[Oldmil]

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The Start button is gone: so what? Adapt or sink in the quagmire of yesterday. I'm 70 and found Windows 8 quite easy to use. Now, when I have to use a Windows 7 machine, I find it quaint and non-productive. Sure, lots of applications require 7; lots of CICS terminals are still active, but no one writes new stuff for it. Move along, nothing to see here. I doubt very much that you are telling the whole truth..... You are probably a high-end IT professional 70-year-old who works for M$. My 70-year-old low-level end user customers want to throw their Win 8 machines out the window!

[Oldmil]

Some people, like the reviewer and your ustomers, just find it too hard to move on to new things and say stuck in the past, many not even willing to try and learn new things. The future of operating systems and computing in general is moving foreward and sooner or later you either have to keep up with the new technology or be left bheind.

[Oldmil]

Why do you need a start button? Window 8 is a new operating system and nothing more, nothing less. Learn it. It's time to move on and let old systems behind. Maybe you would like to bring DOS back?

[rondtroy]

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Why do you need a start button? Window 8 is a new operating system and nothing more, nothing less. Learn it. It's time to move on and let old systems behind. Maybe you would like to bring DOS back?

Because Windows for years has had a basic layout with a start button that not only are people used to, was very easy to use. It also allowed good multitasking with multiple open windows across a screen, and is generally quite productive. Windoze 8 MUTRO is more aimed at toddlers, chimps, pets, etc. who like looking at pretty pictures and hitting them with their hands or paws, not actually use a computer for business or other purposes.

I wouldn't care so much if MS had allowed me the choice of using the existing Win 7 GUI. However, even though there are workarounds to make 8 usable, MS (at least in one communication I received last summer) made it clear that they don't want the Win 7 GUI back, and would eventually block all attempts like this to restore it.

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POKKI...MON!