Windows 8 who's buying/upgrading

Minstadave said:
I agree with your viewpoint, unfortunately this thread seems incapable of dealing with any criticism of windows 8.
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Loved the spin.

The thread has been coping just fine with criticism and praise as equally as one another, all with reason and logic. However, you sound very bitter. Like someone that spent a lot of money on something and has a seriously bitter hate for it that you can't seem to let go. The behaviour of someone that got burned and developed a personal vendetta.
 
Elevon said:
...personally Win7 was a minor upgrade over Vista IMHO(only really offered speed improvements)...
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Speed? Kinda the understatement of the year right there.

Apart from the speed. The UAC nags were massively improved. Getting permissions on folder and files was a PITA in Vista. You'd plug in a drive from an XP machine, and Vista would assign a bunch of rights, and block your access till you took ownership. There was so many issues, most people with a choice stuck with XP.
 
Tute said:
These are still negligible things - they are small improvements that someone with a well patched, well specced gaming PC won't see the majority of the benefit of.
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And yet larger than the jump from Vista to 7 especially taking into account that Vista was well into SP2 by the time of 7s release.

OspreyO said:
Speed? Kinda the understatement of the year right there.

Apart from the speed. The UAC nags were massively improved. Getting permissions on folder and files was a PITA in Vista. You'd plug in a drive from an XP machine, and Vista would assign a bunch of rights, and block your access till you took ownership. There was so many issues, most people with a choice stuck with XP.
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The UAC improvements happened in Vista as far back as SP1.
 
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Tute said:
It is a slap in the face to power users and gamers, i'm standing by that comment 100% as it's true.
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Sorry Tute but I am a power user & a gamer & I do not see it as a slap in the face at all. So your 100% true comment is basically 100% wrong.

Hows this for a feature, I took my SSD out of my PC took it to my friends house bunged it in & Windows 8 booted up just fine. All other OS from MS before then would blue screen when it hit the boot screen. There's a nice feature ;)
 
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Sighn said:
And yet larger than the jump from Vista to 7 especially taking into account that Vista was well into SP2 by the time of 7s release.

The UAC improvements happened in Vista as far back as SP1.
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Can't agree. Vista even fully patched runs nothing like aswell as Windows 7.

Ok perhaps Windows 8 introduces more new features than Windows 7 did. But for me personally I can't see any features that are must haves. The main W8 feature for me was a cheap licence for my Vista machines.
 
Mattey1 said:
...Hows this for a feature, I took my SSD out of my PC took it to my friends house bunged it in & Windows 8 booted up just fine. All other OS from MS before then would blue screen when it hit the boot screen. There's a nice feature ;)
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What feature is that?

The machines could have been identical, or very similar hardware, whereas in the past there were major hardware incompatibilities between the machines you tried. Who's to know?
 
OspreyO said:
What feature is that?

The machines could have been identical, or very similar hardware, whereas in the past there were major hardware incompatibilities between the machines you tried. Who's to know?
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ASUS P5K-E 775, Q6600, DDR2 ram, Nvidia 8800GT to Gigabyte 1366 x58, i7, DDR3 ram, ATI 5750.

So no not really that similar. Machines in the past have been near enough identical.

The feature being it didn't blue screen it detected the hardware changes & booted up just fine like it'd never been put in for the first time.
 
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Hardly a feature. Happy circumstance of up to date drivers and compatible hardware. Though I would have expected such a change to trigger reactivation.
 
Mattey1 said:
Sorry Tute but I am a power user & a gamer & I do not see it as a slap in the face at all. So your 100% true comment is basically 100% wrong.

Hows this for a feature, I took my SSD out of my PC took it to my friends house bunged it in & Windows 8 booted up just fine. All other OS from MS before then would blue screen when it hit the boot screen. There's a nice feature ;)
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Have done this tens of times with various OSes from Windows 2000 upwards. It still boots, although it does whinge about drivers somewhat and trigger a re-activation, which is fine.
 
I've had a good search around but can't find anything definitive so thought I'd ask.
If I do a windows 8 upgrade from windows 7, will it keep all the settings/apps/email/games etc?

I know I really should do a clean install but just can't face that again.

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I bought the 64 bit OEM version in the end as I thought the price was going to go up at the end of January but it hasn't. My plan was to install it when I next rebuild, but the price has just stayed the same so I will return in until I actually need it :D
 
V F said:
Loved the spin.

The thread has been coping just fine with criticism and praise as equally as one another, all with reason and logic. However, you sound very bitter. Like someone that spent a lot of money on something and has a seriously bitter hate for it that you can't seem to let go. The behaviour of someone that got burned and developed a personal vendetta.
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Woah drama queen there.

I payed £25 iirc, I can live with the loss :D

This thread has a handful of people who can't cope with people not liking windows 8, so much so that I had to explain numerous times what I didn't like, why i didnt like it, why i coudnt find the cunningly hidden power off butoon and was accused of not actually trying the OS and just flaming. I had to stick someone on my ignore list because they were so tiresome, which in almost 10 years (including time as a don) has only happened 3 times.

I was however pointing out that I will go to the effort of a reinstall instead of just putting up with 8 and I'm very lazy and hate reinstalls - so this is a bad sign.
 
Sighn said:
And yet larger than the jump from Vista to 7 especially taking into account that Vista was well into SP2 by the time of 7s release.

The UAC improvements happened in Vista as far back as SP1.
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God no. Vista to 7 was a bigger leap in speed and usability. I agree 8 boots faster for sure, but apart from that I can't see any big change.
 
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I still don't quite understand peoples hate for Windows 8.

With the exception of the no-longer-called-metro UI (which quite honestly takes very little time to get used to), what you've got is Windows 7 with performance tweaks and some nice enhancements.

In addition, for anyone who previously had Windows 7 Home Premium, you've also got back all the administrative features that you had in XP Pro but were unavailable unless you bought either the corporate version or Ultimate of newer versions of Windows. Obviously these features were mostly only used by power users, and if you knew the registry well enough, you could work around them not being there, but it's nice to see them back.

From what I can see, the new UI is all people see, and they either like it or don't, and if it's the latter, then Windows 8 is "the worst thing evahhhh!!".

Yes, they could have put the shutdown/restart buttons in a more obvious location, but seriously, is it REALLY worth getting THAT worked up about it when there are multiple easy and quick workarounds that have been mentioned many times already.

At the end of the day, you either want to upgrade or you don't. Nobody's holding a gun to your head and forcing you to use Windows 8. If you really can't get past the fact Windows 8 isn't identical to Windows 7, don't use it.
 
Infidelus said:
I still don't quite understand peoples hate for Windows 8.

With the exception of the no-longer-called-metro UI (which quite honestly takes very little time to get used to), what you've got is Windows 7 with performance tweaks and some nice enhancements.

In addition, for anyone who previously had Windows 7 Home Premium, you've also got back all the administrative features that you had in XP Pro but were unavailable unless you bought either the corporate version or Ultimate of newer versions of Windows. Obviously these features were mostly only used by power users, and if you knew the registry well enough, you could work around them not being there, but it's nice to see them back.

From what I can see, the new UI is all people see, and they either like it or don't, and if it's the latter, then Windows 8 is "the worst thing evahhhh!!".

Yes, they could have put the shutdown/restart buttons in a more obvious location, but seriously, is it REALLY worth getting THAT worked up about it when there are multiple easy and quick workarounds that have been mentioned many times already.

At the end of the day, you either want to upgrade or you don't. Nobody's holding a gun to your head and forcing you to use Windows 8. If you really can't get past the fact Windows 8 isn't identical to Windows 7, don't use it.
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Usual mix,some hate change some can't be bothered to learn or adapt,as to Shut Down etc.....plenty of free applications that allow you to put it in various places even as a noob,Aero moan is a big fat joke,so is Win7 style Start button.Some negative points are valid but does not take away the fact Win8 is very stable/fast and very usable.

End of the day Metro is here to stay(its been stated Metro in Win9 will have improvements) so they either can stay on Win7 and get left behind or move with the times,I was and still am a DOS 6.22 fan so if I can get use to every change in every Microsoft OS for better or worst then anybody can.

I look forward to using Win9 etc...and seeing usual moans that will appear so mark my words.

Just except no OS is perfect and try to adapt then you'll find it a lot easier to move forward,end of the day Win8 is a bargain especially for what you get at that price,way better value then Win7/Vista etc ever was.

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Rikk said:
I've had a good search around but can't find anything definitive so thought I'd ask.
If I do a windows 8 upgrade from windows 7, will it keep all the settings/apps/email/games etc?

I know I really should do a clean install but just can't face that again.

Thanks
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Win8 upgrade assistant tells you what is compatible and what needs to be removed before installation,in my case I had to remove my anti-virus program and old paint software package,games were all fine(I did have to verify game cache ie XCOM in Steam however) but all the rest worked fine etc even my drivers were fine.
 
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