Just bought Windows 8 - wrong decision?

[lolage]

Hi, read a couple of good things about Windows 8 so after having *cough* dudd copies of Windows XP/7 in the past I decided for a clean install I want to do things properly.

I'm not gaming, will be for general use and photo/video editing. I've just read a string of comments on a site saying that they are all going back to Windows 7, due to 8 being unstable - worse than Vista someone even said.

Shall I just buy Win7 or keep Win8?

Cheers!

 

[linwelin]

Microsoft has a pattern, and most people tend to follow that pattern, 1 good 1 bad 1 good 1 bad, it's always the same, the next windows will be good. If you don't like it just downgrade ?

 

[ShakenNstirred]

Hi, read a couple of good things about Windows 8 so after having *cough* dudd copies of Windows XP/7 in the past I decided for a clean install I want to do things properly.

I'm not gaming, will be for general use and photo/video editing. I've just read a string of comments on a site saying that they are all going back to Windows 7, due to 8 being unstable - worse than Vista someone even said.

Shall I just buy Win7 or keep Win8?

Cheers!

win 8 has been just as stable as win 7 here.
as you already have win 8 use that

 

[zpos]

Just make sure you know how to get into safe mode. Took me a while to figure it out after several panics following a Police E-crime virus infestation introduced via an adobe flash exploit. Grr..

Windows 8 is super cool though.

 

[zakblood]

windows 8 is no worse than windows 7 pre sp1 or xp pre sp3/2/1

i myself wont update until sp1 comes out, or blue whatever it does etc, i never do, didn't make the jump from 98se then win2k came out, didn't do ME, but after that went from win2k onto xp sp1 right upto sp3, (missed Vista as didn't like the turkey but loads did) made the jump to win 7 a few days after sp1 came out, and am still on it, for gaming and net pc, plus laptops, got win8 on a old pc for a trial

never went 64bit either until win7 came out, could have done with xp, but didn't like it at work so didn't bother for gaming, but made the jump with win7 and never looked back

 

[bledd]

Unstable?

It's been solid as a rock for me. I use it every day on my work machine and home machine.

 

[shankly1985]

Unstable?

It's been solid as a rock for me. I use it every day on my work machine and home machine.

They is a lot devices out there still waiting on drivers. I changed back to windows 7 because windows 8 had high Dpc latency my audio and video was stuttering.

Tried everything to fix it, but in end give up and installed Windows 7 again.
I put this down to the beta version of audio drivers I was using. So I will now try again when windows blue is released.

 

[lolage]

Think I'll just see how I do with windows 8. Thanks all. If I wanted to go to Windows 7, with my 8 disc is this possible? (legally?)

 

[CaptainCrash]

I've just read a string of comments on a site saying that they are all going back to Windows 7, due to 8 being unstable - worse than Vista someone even said.

FWIW I've installed Win8 on about 20 PCs over the last couple of months, used for a variety of purposes from gaming to office work. It's been pretty much bomb-proof on all of them so far, although maybe I've just been lucky with the quality of the available drivers (obviously this is pretty fundamental).

Whatever the pros and cons of Win8, and god knows they've been done to death ad nauseam, I certainly wouldn't list an intrinsic lack of stability as one of its faults.

 

[div0]

Microsoft has a pattern, and most people tend to follow that pattern, 1 good 1 bad 1 good 1 bad, it's always the same, the next windows will be good. If you don't like it just downgrade ?

It's no where near as simple as that.

The only inherently 'bad' OS I can think of was ME.

In recent years Vista got a lot of bad press, but a huge amount of that was because software hadn't been written to meet the new requirements enforced by the OS, mainly for security reasons.

Had Vista not been released, then we'd still have been using 'XP style' software when Windows 7 was released. Then Windows 7 would have got the same complaints that people had with Vista, even if it was the exact same Windows 7 as people are now happy to use.

The difference between Win 7 and Vista isn't that big. Yes Win 7 is a better OS, but that's because it's built on a platform that enforced good practices. Most of the Win 7 improvements could quite easily have been released as a service pack for Vista, but it would have been hard to get away from the 'bad rep' that Vista already had.

Vista enforced a period of change in the way software programs were written. It's these periods of change that people don't like.

 

[Elevon]

Microsoft has a pattern, and most people tend to follow that pattern, 1 good 1 bad 1 good 1 bad, it's always the same, the next windows will be good. If you don't like it just downgrade ?

Pure FUD,only bad OS was ME IMHO, I have used them all,Win8 has been rock stable on three Win7 upgrades for me to Win8,everything works ie drivers,gaming and even my overclock etc....

Great pricing,added features,improved security so you can't go wrong IMHO,very polished OS.

 

[tribz]

Pure FUD,only bad OS was ME

And Vista

 

[Macro]

Vista really wasn't a bad OS... If Windows 7 had have been released instead of Vista people would be saying that W7 was ****. Vista, much like W8 took a lot of flak for trying to move the platform forward and a surprising amount of people don't like change. The new security and stability changes (honestly, when was the last time anyone saw a Blue Screen on even a remotely regular basis?) broke a bunch of drivers and software that had until that point managed to use "dodgy" coding, by passing best practise and recommendations.

Ironically XP was in the same place when it came out, it got slated for the Luna UI being "fisher price" (ring any bells more recently) with people running the UI in classic mode to make it look like Windows 2000 or 95/98. It was accused of being bloatware with it's fancy graphics and unnecessary effects and add ons breaking a whole bunch of Windows 95 era software. Low and behold 5 years later it was beloved by all as the best gaming OS of all time.

It always surprises me that people who are supposed to be technology enthusiasts are often the ones who won't embrace change and try to make something new work the same way as the old version, which to me seems an exercise in futility. They then perpetuate myths like the "one good one bad" OS thing and "Windows 8 is crap fro anything other than a touch Tablet". W8 is built on W7 with significant improvements even if you ignore the Metro UI. Unsurprisingly it's just as stable.

TLDR: Windows 8 is a good, stable OS.

 

[Elevon]

And Vista

Vista was fine for me, I used it for three years,main issues were lazy companies getting drivers out of the gates,also OEM companies shipping underpowered hardware with Vista ie below Vista recommended specs,throw in the usual FUD that appears on the net, well you see my point.


Win7 which is based on Vista had two years of polish/refinement to gets its act together and also luxury of being able to use Vista drivers in most cases plus more powerful hardware available ie OEM PCs,Vista being the new kid on the block was a complete redesign from XP days so had to start fresh with none of the advantages Win7 had.


Truth is 95% of the FUD about Vista on the net is unwarranted,end of the day Win7 only improved on speed and UAC nagging over Vista,nothing that was a major OS upgrade.

 

[Raumarik]

Ironically XP was in the same place when it came out, it got slated for the Luna UI being "fisher price" (ring any bells more recently) with people running the UI in classic mode to make it look like Windows 2000 or 95/98. It was accused of being bloatware with it's fancy graphics and unnecessary effects and add ons breaking a whole bunch of Windows 95 era software. Low and behold 5 years later it was beloved by all as the best gaming OS of all time.

+1, many of those whinging about Windows 8 probably did the same when XP came out, assuming they weren't children at the time!

 

[gareth170]

I been using windows since win 3.1.. win8 is one of the best OS MS have released so far.. yes that's right I did say the best.

 

[Elevon]

I been using windows since win 3.1.. win8 is one of the best OS MS have released so far.. yes that's right I did say the best.

I prefered DOS 6.22 (was a DOS fan)to Win3.1 so was a little upset when DOS got replaced by later Windows versions,however 3.1 and ME were the only two Windows OS that I did not like,rest were fine.

I also look forward to Win Blue .

 

[Ceryndrion]

I've been using windows for many years, and dos before that, and the only time that I have ever had issues, has been with random pieces of hardware that lacked proper driver support because manufacturers were too lazy to bother with them. Hell, it wasn't that long ago that you couldn't get drivers for modern graphics cards for linux but thats okay because linux isn't microsoft.

A lot of the rubbish out there, is from people pre-programmed to hate anything that microsoft has done, yes they are one of the worlds largest companies, and with that they get a lot of abuse, some of it is even warranted, but what they have brought to the world, is a lot of standardisation that we just wouldn't have without them.

Unless that is, that people want to go back to the days of having to manually configure each card before you put it into your computer.

Personally, I think that windows8 is a great OS, it does everything that I want, and it does it well, it even does a few things that I didn't know that I wanted.

 

[gareth170]

I prefered DOS 6.22 (was a DOS fan)to Win3.1 so was a little upset when DOS got replaced by later Windows versions,however 3.1 and ME were the only two Windows OS that I did not like,rest were fine.

I also look forward to Win Blue .

well when I had to use dos I had to use my nose to type with the keyboard, due to no on screen keyboard, haha, it wasn't easy

 

[Macro]

I prefered DOS 6.22 (was a DOS fan)to Win3.1 so was a little upset when DOS got replaced by later Windows versions,however 3.1 and ME were the only two Windows OS that I did not like,rest were fine. .

Ahhh, happy days of Autoexec.bat, config.sys, Himem.sys and emm386.exe trying to get 610k mem free. Having to configure sound cards with jumpers before installing them to set resources (IRQ7, Port220h anyone? )