Will you go to windows8?

Having upgraded four pc's to W7 64 Pro, which cost a few pounds to do, I have no intentions of upgrading to Windows 8.

Windows 7 is nearly perfect for me, XP lasted about eight years for me, & hopefully W7 64 Pro will be the same.
 
There are some nice fetures, at first it wasn't very intuitive (and still isn't) but i am getting used to it and its not as bad as i first thought. I like the new file transfer functions, I like the storage spaces (just need to be able to remove individual drives without needing to delete the pool)

At the moment no i won't, if they fix a few issues and give some more customisation in terms of metro/aero then at the right price i will.

They should have a 'you are running this on a tablet/desktop/phone/laptop, is this correct?' and proceed to customise some things for touchscreen devices or non touchscreen devices.

for a lot of users it might be better as they will have all the programs they use in one place with nice buttons and they may never even go to the desktop
 
History never fails to repeat itself :D

I remember all the "Win9x is so good as it plays all my games" and the "Win2000 is so good as it's stable and doesn't have fisherprice GUI" and the "XP is so good as it doesn't need all the hardware power of Vista and doesn't crash".

Guarantee anyone here that *thinks* they won't adopt W8 will be using it within 12 months of launch.

The Metro seems like a gimmick today only because there's not really much you can do with it. Just wait and see how opinions start to change as more and more Metro apps and games become available for it... and then there's the whole "halo effect" that will occur between WinPhone, W8 tablets, Xbox vNext because they'll all be able to run the same Metro apps.
 
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Its a fancy skin for Windows 7. Do not want on my PC or laptop. Possibly tablet though

To me I remember a mouse being a novelty, I don't want the formula messed with ;)
 
I love Win7. Win8 offers me nothing I want. So no, I doubt I'll bother with 8. I'll hold on for 9 and hopefully they'll have refined it somewhat.
 
yeah i will get it, but really happy with my main rig, so will 'test' on my laptop for starters. So has MS said they will still support win7 as Win8 will NOT go down well in the workplace
 
HeX said:
I love Win7. Win8 offers me nothing I want. So no, I doubt I'll bother with 8. I'll hold on for 9 and hopefully they'll have refined it somewhat.
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How can you be so sure that "it offers nothing you want" when it hasn't even been launched yet and no killer Metro apps have even been paper launched for the platform yet?

OSes are typically quite boring things. It's what the platform enables for third party application vendors that matters. Windows would be nothing without the third party ecosystem around it.
 
NathanE said:
History never fails to repeat itself :D

I remember all the "Win9x is so good as it plays all my games" and the "Win2000 is so good as it's stable and doesn't have fisherprice GUI" and the "XP is so good as it doesn't need all the hardware power of Vista and doesn't crash".

Guarantee anyone here that *thinks* they won't adopt W8 will be using it within 12 months of launch.

The Metro seems like a gimmick today only because there's not really much you can do with it. Just wait and see how opinions start to change as more and more Metro apps and games become available for it... and then there's the whole "halo effect" that will occur between WinPhone, W8 tablets, Xbox vNext because they'll all be able to run the same Metro apps.
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Windows XP was a terrible system on launch, not so good after SP1 and only really stable after SP2 and SP3.

I've got enough use of Windows 8 to tell you that Metro UI layer is just something that I hate using on my desktop. Sure, I can't judge its features just yet but so far it only reduces my efficiency.

NathanE said:
How can you be so sure that "it offers nothing you want" when it hasn't even been launched yet and no killer Metro apps have even been paper launched for the platform yet?

OSes are typically quite boring things. It's what the platform enables for third party application vendors that matters. Windows would be nothing without the third party ecosystem around it.
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My workstation is not a tablet, I don't need "killer apps" on it. Metro platform is good for developers, it's redundant for my uses and pretty much just bloatware for any non-touchscreens.
 
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PhillyDee said:
I will get windows8, if I stick to it is another thing entirely.

XP to vista was a dual boot scenario.

Vista to windows 7 was a straight replacement.

7 to 8 will be a dual boot again. I look forward to superior integration with windows phones etc, but the tiles I have no interest in. I find my current setup of windows 7 is fine.
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Ive heard that there will be different versions of windows 8, and one will be a desktop pc version. So no stupid tiles thing
 
jimbob27 said:
win 3.1 - good
win 95 - bad
win 98 - good
win 2000 - bad
win xp - good
win vista - bad
win 7 - good
win 8 - not holding my breath.
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Windows 2000 was a breath of fresh air. The first OS that had a HAL, had the stability of NT yet allowed you (at release) to play 90% of available games and other "entertainment" titles.
By the time Windows 2000 hit SP1 game support was even higher.

2000 is arguably one of the best Windows releases ever. Stable from release it only got better over it's lifetime.
How you can say "Windows 2000 - Bad" is beyond me.
 
jimbob27 said:
win 3.1 - good
win 95 - bad
win 98 - good
win 2000 - bad
win xp - good
win vista - bad
win 7 - good
win 8 - not holding my breath.
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Windows 95 was bad? :confused:

Windows 98 wasn't a good upgrade, not until 98SE came out.

Windows ME is missing from this list and Windows 2000 was certainly not bad at all.

Windows XP was terrible when it started, wasn't any good until SP2.
 
Phil2008 said:
Ive heard that there will be different versions of windows 8, and one will be a desktop pc version. So no stupid tiles thing
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As far as we know, there will be four versions of Windows 8:

1) Standard
2) Pro - extra features
3) Enterprise - Pro for large organisations
3) RT - ARM

No mention of disabling Metro UI anywhere.
 
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