Windows 8 is doing so bad they have to bring back the start button

NO START BUTTON?

WHERE DO I BEGIN WTF?

mircosoft is going to go the way of the twinkie....

all of the executives at microsoft must be retarded.... Bill Gates was smart to retire,

ok this is the best

above the best--3d printing.....which company will be good enough to make money off of this...all of the companies are too stupid to know what to do......


1. samsung-they copy apple really good they are good at what they do
2 apple-sort of going retarded mini ipad is not innovation
3.google and ebay tie.....not retarded, at least not yet


10 microsoft, really retarded.....

Linux Mint Debian Edition FTW!

sux, if your are not a nerd

next they will have a computer with no off switch.

LOL so true, so they can watch you.

This is worse than Windows ME.

I just installed Classic Shell on Win7 because that start menu sucks. Now none at all?

Time to build a Linux machine.

How does it compare with Crunchbang Linux?

I used a beta version of Win 8 and was so happy after I had installed Win 7 over it and the damn thing was gone. No shutdown button, jeez!

Windows 8 sucks. Why was Microsoft in such a hurry to replace Windows 7? Windows 7 actually works and is not a pile of shit like Vista. Vista has become the Windows ME of the modern age. The only operating systems that Windows had that actually were worth a shit are Windows 95/98, Windows XP SP3, and Windows 7.

When Windows XP first came out it was a piece of shit, too. By SP3, almost the entire OS had been reprogrammed. Windows ME was a total disaster. At times, not even my Networking and Telecomm professor in college could get it to work right during class demonstrations. Windows Vista was another useless OS that no one wanted. It was harder to operate than its predecessor XP and had no better features. Finally, they get a decent level of success with Windows 7 and they replace it with a worthless pile of shit, Windows 8. Microsoft is a total joke now.

Whats Windows?

windows 8 is very fast, but annoying as hell with no start button or fast shut off options

I think it's great. Much faster than Win7. At $40 a pop, it's a good deal.

Agree, they could have left the start button on the desktop. Stardock has a desktop start menu add-on for $5.

Win 8 is a MASSIVE FAIL worse than Vista was and Win98ME.
It is USELESS for PC users.


For Balmer and Gates ------>

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Anyone try running it in a VM yet? I run FreeBSD 9.0 and switching the actual computer over to Windows 8 would be like giving up a custom sportscar for a Yugo...but I would like to test it and it's always nice to be able to check development work on it.

I guarantee you they will add the start button back. I work at a computer shop and knew that I would be seeing windows 8 pc's shortly so I installed a copy in virtual box. It's awful. It is probably an excellent tablet OS but it's a horrible desktop OS. So I downloaded a freeware start bar replacement and all of a sudden I had access to traditional components such as control panel and the like. That makes it okay. I will however most likely be using Windows 7 for a few more years.

The newest version of Virtualbox plays it just fine. Just go to virtualbox.org

I bet Neo uses a Linux.

That's because he's the one. And has a Windows machine at work.

Even the most user-friendly versions of Linux suck big time if you're not a nerd!

I have a pendrive live-Ubuntu and I fucking hate it! I use it strictly in emergence cases for retrieving stuff and formatting partitions after total and irrecoverable hard-disk contamination.

Just looking at it I would not buy it. Never had a problem upgrading before but I don't want my desktop to act like a mobile device. I will keep 7 until 8 is dead and gone.

It's like stupid coke .... When they made new coke and Pepsi when they made clear Pepsi.

Geezus if ain't broke, don't fix it!!!!

Try Zorin. There is a learning curve but it's the most Windows 7 like version of Linux I have ever seen. I installed it on my wife's netbook a couple months ago and she has had little to complain about.

Reminds me of the guy who returns a chainsaw cause it didn't increase his output over his trusty axe. The manager helps him out and they go out back to test it and the manager starts it up and the guy says, "What's that noise?"

R-Zion.

Gave up on all microsoft since ME

It was developed with tablets in mind. It sucks.

Yes, Windows 8 sucks. Windows XP SP3 was very stable. Free alternatives to the "missing" START button in Windows 8 are available - consider "Classic Shell"

[link to classicshell.sourceforge.net]

Consider the trash can is more like it. I guess when Microsoft stops supporting Windows 7 it will mark the end of Microsoft.

eBay, not retarded?? not yet????