Windows 9 set for release next year

Am I the only one that likes Windows 8 Pro?
I've removed all the "metro" and found a very familiar and useable OS underneath all that tile layout.
 
Admiral Huddy said:
MS need to start offering home editions free is they have any hope of making this a success and making people jump from windows 7 or indeed 8.x.
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I didn't see any reason to use Win 8 over 7 when I first heard of it, and then I saw the interface and it turned me off. I am actually interested in using it now that 8.1 is out but now I need to spend £107 on the whim I might like it. So yeah a free version to try, I'll take that but there is no chance I would upgrade it to a full version now that in 1 year a new O/S will be out.

Halfmad said:
By all means have an opinion, but at least try to base it on fact and personal use rather than the opinions of others
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I tried the exact same defence with Windows Vista and it didn't work.

Remember Project Mojave where MS took a bunch of Vista haters and told them to try this new O/S called Mojave. They all talked about how this and that was good and better then Vista, and then MS dropped the curtain and told them that Mojave is actually Vista.
 
FunkyCowie said:
If you can't be flexible enough to handle simple changes in software then I really don't know how you get through life and what that chucks at you.

I am nearly 40 and handled the change from 7 to 8 in 20 minutes, my father who is 72 manged in 30 minutes and is going a little senile...

If you can't handle the change and think its a pile of crap then you should not be using a computer or even leave your own house.
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Its not about handling a change or even adapting to a change. For some people Windows 8 is simply less efficent for the way they use the OS even after adapting.
 
linktoinsanity said:
Yes, we should not be allowed to have a different opinion to you. All hail Cowie. :rolleyes:
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Did I even say that??? I am just giving my opinion :P

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Rroff: I get that, but a lot of the complaints are very shallow based on the look and the minor in convenience of an extra button press, or things just being accessed in a slightly different way. These are mostly minimal issues. Win 8 delivers a lot to the table.

When I tried the beta version in a VM and I found it clunky... so much so I just deleted it after about 5 minutes. When the cheap upgrade offer came through I took a punt because I knew it would be more or less complete and 20 minutes in I had found everything and it was all good.

I just can't stand the shallowness and unwillingness of some people to follow what is essentially progress, you gotta give things a decent go in life :D

And if my slightly senile 73 year old Dad who has only been using a computer for 6 years (XP, then 7 then 8) can get over life's hurdles then I am sure others can ;)
 
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FunkyCowie said:
Rroff: I get that, but a lot of the complaints are very shallow based on the look and the minor in convenience of an extra button press, or things just being accessed in a slightly different way. These are mostly minimal issues. Win 8 delivers a lot to the table.
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You say that but for many people with hating/liking vista<>win7 it was mostly really small changes and slightly different ways of doing stuff that made or broke the OS for them, when you have to do one extra button press multiple times over the course of the day as part of the normal useage flow it amounts up to becoming quite tedious.
 
Halfmad said:
By all means have an opinion, but at least try to base it on fact and personal use rather than the opinions of others which date back almost a year in many cases.

I didn't like Windows 8 to start with but tbh it is just Windows 7 with some nice extras, the GUI frankly doesn't get in the way and the searching on it is incredibly useful. I've set Windows 8.1 to go straight to desktop, they could remove the new gui entirely and I wouldn't care but I'm not going to condemn the entire OS based on one part of it, which I rarely use. When there's so many nice tweaks and changes been made to it outside of the hated GUI that people love to get their knickers in a twist about.
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Well put, and pretty much mirrors my setup.

My parents (both 70+) are equally happy with Windows 8 and use it on a daily basis - desktop and Modern UI. Just as happy as they were using Windows 7 and Windows XP before that (we all missed Vista).
 
Rroff said:
You say that but for many people with hating/liking vista<>win7 it was mostly really small changes and slightly different ways of doing stuff that made or broke the OS for them, when you have to do one extra button press multiple times over the course of the day as part of the normal useage flow it amounts up to becoming quite tedious.
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Tedious? Surely you just get used to it because that's how it is, then after a while forget you are even doing it?

And hey its more exercise :D
 
KIA said:
What are you going to do in April? :p
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Probably carry on using it. It's hardly going to stop working or not turn on, is it...

Why would MS be considering the ex Nokia boss. If there was ever anyone to ruin a company and it's vision, it was this guy!!
 
Burnsy2023 said:
Such as? I used both and I see no reason not to upgrade to 8.1 from 8.
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File permissions is messed up in 8.1........half my programs wont save their own database (LR for example) because 8.1 made it so you cant write to directories by default and iv tried everything to change it (UI, reg hack, powershell, command prompt) and it wont budge - stupid stupid m$ - people want to write to their own hard drive !!
 
Microsoft is reportedly on course to ditch its troubled Windows 8 operating system in 2015.
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I don't get it. What was the troubled part? After all, they were pushing hard to get people on it.
 
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