Windows 8 flops

I'm having a hard time getting used to 8. When I boot my computer, first thing I do is go to desktop.

tell how
where is it

windows 7 explorer in windows 8?

The ole sayin is if it aint broke dont try and fix it.


There wasn't anything wrong with windows XP, it was the best and most stable OS they had. Mandatory formats used to be common about every 6-12 months before it came along. Then they made Vista which was horribly slow (win 95 slow or worse) and after it bombed they ironed out the code and made 7 so we could have the flashyness but most of XPs speed. But even then, 7 isn't as fast as XP, people have forgotten, it just looks more bling and smoother I will give it that.

Download start8 [link to www.dropbox.com (secure)]

Wrong link, it's:
[link to www.stardock.com]

I still have XP.... Fuck the newer versions.

8 isnt actually that bad, a lot of big companies are actually migrating to 8, whereas not many large companies ever bothered migrating to vista.

It's true, 8 runs faster than 7 even on older hardware but it doesn't recover itself like 7 does, the few times that becomes necessary...

I use the "classic skin" skin which gives me back a start button. I never have to look at the start screen, you can set the skin to boot to desktop etc. But it's a click away if I want to play with it.

Our computers either have Linux or XP on them.
If and when XP becomes a problem, we will go
completely Linux.

we see witch people not smart enough to see its better and stable... and combined with Windows 2012 its all news good feature

Windows 7 has an OS X feel to it that I don't care for.
Plus windows explorer is the OS's most useful feature,
and what to they screw up? You guessed it.
XP is the best OS micro$hit ever came up with,
and I see no reason at all to upgrade to ANYTHING.
It does everything I need faster than anything else
around.

I'm sure micro$hit will make it tougher and tougher
to stick with XP.
I wouldn't put sabotage past them,
but we'll go to linux entirely when the time comes.

I took my new PC with 8 back and traded for my first MAC. It's just as hard to learn but I do like it better than windows 8.

www.distrowatch.com

Mac is spyware, windows is bloatware and linux is incompitable with everything... it's soret of like an OS for communists.

Linux IS compatible with EVERYTHING
It runs on any architecture you can name and has native drivers for virtually every device out there that work right out of the box.

Obviously you don't have any idea what you are talking about.

Xp support will die in 2013

And they wonder why PC sales are down the toilet -
PC Shipments Post the Steepest Decline Ever in a Single Quarter, According to IDC
[link to www.idc.com]

I'm running XP on a 2001 Sony vaio, even though we need a new computer, I won't buy one running windows 8

Long live XP!

total fucking garbage

Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with Windows 8.

If they priced their surface tablet lower they could have grabbed more tablet business...I was waiting and ready to buy
but not at 800

I wouldn't expect anything else, this OS hasn't brought anything new but a bunch of useless features that nobody needs.

^^ This ^^.

Lmao!

I love Ubuntu.
I use Ubuntu.
But you are wrong.
I still have an XP box, and maybe always will, because
we've used MagickJack for years, and gave up waiting
for linux drivers, which will never come.
There are several printers we have around here that
absolutely will NOT work with linux.
Also an old scanner with no linux driver.

Don't mislead people. And installing apps is NOT as easy
as Windows, and at times can be very difficult.

And installing updates can break things.
I can't tell you how many times I've had to re-install
the whole OS, to the point that I don't allow my wife to
update ANYTHING.

Linux has a STEEP learning curve compared to Windows.
But breaking free from micro$hit is worth the effort
if you have the brains to become well versed in linux.

I still don't think Granny or dense people should
even think about trying linux. They'll never "get it".
It still is not user friendly when something goes
wrong.

They made windows on Linux!

Bunch of geek asses with cheese on their fingers!

Microsoft are upgrading it to Windows 8.1 in the fall. Currently codenamed Blue

[link to www.latimes.com]

Windows 7 is just Vista warmed over Windows 8 is just Windows 7 warmed over with a touch screen interface.

My PC has a touch screen, came with Windows 8 downgraded to Windows 7. Touch-screens have been available for over 15 years. Stroking PC screens as a tablet will become the norm. I love my touch-screen pc.

Will probably switch it back to Windows 8.1 in the fall when MSFT have bug fixed it. There are several apps that put the start button back and can disable the tiles (Metro / New UI)

Who would have thought... It's like Balmer, stupid, plump, bloated.

On a tablet it is a funny look, but it chokes on the hardware and leaves you in the dark after two hours. Its fullblown windows needed on any platform, not very clever. And who needs that tile crap on a desktop, anyway? Anybody?

There is unfortunately no challenge for windows In the enterprise sector, so we will have the opportunity to make fun jokes about it for years to come.

Windows refuses to change their mind even when pretty much 90% of all users agree it's retarded.