Whos staying on Win7 and whos going to Win8?

I'll wait and catch it later. Absolutely no need for an upgrade to 8 for me at this current moment in time. Win 7 running just fine on all 5 PC's in the house at the mo'.
 
at that price i may try win 8 on my laptop (convertible tablet), because it works quite well on there, my biggest issue is it seems quite limited at the mo in terms of apps and support - something that should be rectified once properly released.

However, its not going anywhere near my desktop. I can live with a dumbed down laptop, but not my desktop...
 
Depends on the performance really.

If there is notable performance/features that make it worthwhile, then yes.

Win7 is fantastic though, I have no complaints with it at all.... and as windows tends to follow a good release/bad release/good release/bad release pattern...

Windows Me poor
Windows XP good
Windows Vista poor
Windows 7 good
Windows 8 …..

sorta thing...
 
thingemajib said:
However, its not going anywhere near my desktop. I can live with a dumbed down laptop, but not my desktop...
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:rolleyes:
How is it dumbed down, it has full desktop and controll panel. It also has far more features than w7, there's is no way you can describe it as dumbed down.
 
Glaucus said:
:rolleyes:
How is it dumbed down, it has full desktop and controll panel. It also has far more features than w7, there's is no way you can describe it as dumbed down.
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probably should've been a bit more specific. Metro works on my laptop, and works actually quite well on there (I actually have a genuine reason for a touchscreen laptop now...). Metro would be my primary method of using it, but it does give me the feeling of being dumbed down. Yes everything else is still there, but it feels like its all hidden 'under the hood'. Never mind once im outside of metro, most times i have to end up getting the keyboard out again (dont ask why, but it kinda of breaks the experience for me, I guess deep down i just really want a tablet :D)

But yeah, for my desktop i would rather stick with my desktop being at the forefront (instead of metro) and having a traditional start menu to navigate with, if anything just out of personal preference.
 
I'll be taking advantage of the cheap update price. I'm not fan of Metro though and as for the hiding on the "start button" well that's just dumb.

Mountain Lion at $20 is far more interesting to me. However I 'jumped ship' to the Mac before some of you were born.
 
Vista was terrible - hid away far too much stuff that enthusiast users wanted to be able to control and made a lot of stuff 2-3 extra steps over what it took on XP and thats before you run into compatibility, driver, etc. issues.

Windows 7 in many ways is only a slightly tweaked Vista but it took away a lot of the unnecessary extra steps and removed some of the more subtle annoyances - that might not be a problem for casual users but bugged the **** out of power users.

Windows 8 again seems to be a step backwards for power users and the metro UI just doesn't add anything to the user experience for me and will quickly be pushed aside - I fully plan on sticking with Windows 7 as long as I can.
 
I'll stick, there's no point in putting a tablet/phone OS on a keyboard/mouse based PC.
 
Tute said:
I'll stick, there's no point in putting a tablet/phone OS on a keyboard/mouse based PC.
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Surely if you're using this as a criteria, a tablet/phone based OS will surely be better? or at least offer a better path to go down due to the way tablets/phones are becoming better and better at squeezing out performance from multiple core GPU/CPUs? Just a thought.
 
What can be said in this thread that hasn't already been said in dozens of others previously?

Calling windows 8 a tablet os is short sighted. Yes it has metro, but the way people go on about it, you'd think metro is all you get. There's an entire windows 8 desktop as well, which happens to have some decent improvement over window 7. Enough for me to have already moved over. It's cleaner, faster, and it has the ribbon UI. What's not to like about that?
 
Windows 8 can go hump a lemming as far as I am concerned! I hate it! I tried it on a spare machine for 20 minutes or so and just out right struggled to find stuff (no I am not stupid). I hate the ribbon in Windows Explorer, I hate Metro... I hate it, period.

In case I have not made it clear I am sticking to Windows 7 until Windows 9 if I can get away with it (that is assuming that Windows 9 is better).

Stoner81.
 
I'll be going straight to Windows 8. I'm a sucker for updates and like to get stuck in. It's the same every time a new OS is released, loads of people dig their heels in and say they won't upgrade but eventually everyone does and after a few days getting used to the changes come to prefer it.

I remember when Win 7 came out and there were threads just like this. I'd bet that most of the people who said they wouldn't go to Win 7 are now running it.

Granted, early early adopters (like myself) usually have a few issues with drivers or incompatibility from software peeps not getting round to updating but it's never been a huge issue for me.
 
Mint_Sauce said:
I'll be going straight to Windows 8. I'm a sucker for updates and like to get stuck in. It's the same every time a new OS is released, loads of people dig their heels in and say they won't upgrade but eventually everyone does and after a few days getting used to the changes come to prefer it.
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Like the people who are still on XP?

Mint_Sauce said:
I remember when Win 7 came out and there were threads just like this. I'd bet that most of the people who said they wouldn't go to Win 7 are now running it.
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I remember a lot of people absolutely wanting nothing other than Windows 7 after Vista. However Windows 7 is very, very stable and a superb OS so Windows 8 has to be something special. I don't think that it is and I've ran every OS from DOS upwards (including ME and Vista)

Mint_Sauce said:
Granted, early early adopters (like myself) usually have a few issues with drivers or incompatibility from software peeps not getting round to updating but it's never been a huge issue for me.
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Never had a problem either when I've early updated and I don't think I will if I went to Windows 8. However, until I can get a proper desktop, I don't think I will. I don't see the point in running it then having to run Classic Shell on top when Windows 7 is superb.



M.
 
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