Has your opinion of Windows 8 changed over time?

I guess number 4

After reading a fair bit i think im gonna keep 7, a lot i dont know about this OS and from what i have seen i think im more likely to be dissapointed than happy with it
 
The Amiga still lives on mate... I was blown away by just how powerful they are now, and the O/S is gorgeous!

Likewise, the Atari has come a million miles more advanced than most seem to think.

I hate to admit it, but the Amiga is a superior machine, however I am an Atari Fan through and through... mine is currently sitting pretty with 16MB+512MB RAM, an 060 CPU @ 90Mhz ( runs 120 fine however ) and is running off a 120GB 2.5" IDE Drive. Its graphics are ATI Radeon via a CTPCI but I do want to trade that for a SuperVidel sometime.
 
Sounds like a bit of a beast! I think my Amiga had 1MB of memory and a big fat zero amount of secondary storage. :D

I've toyed with the idea of picking one up on the bay. It was bought for games really but as a kid I spent half the time tinkering with the OS and I wrote my very first program following instructions from magazines on it.

Then I moved on to a Compaq 286 "portable" that was found in an attic. Windows 2.1 if I recall correctly. I'm laughing now thinking about it because it had its own integrated carry handle - and it needed it because it weighed about half a stone.

Aye, those were the days.
 
Yes - I like it
i have been using it since developer preview > consumer preview > release preview > final release i'll install it as my only OS
 
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They need an apple trackpad for the desktop version. Works great in a VM on a mac but not so nice with a mouse on a desktop IMO
 
You answered your own question. Win 8 is designed for both Desktops and Tablets but clearly provides a better experience on tablets. The multi touch Apple trackpad helps bring that integration to a standard desktop.
 
I've avoided trying it and I see no reason to!

Windows 7 does the job for me on my 4 machines. I don't own multiple touch screen systems as I spend more time cleaning the screen than using it, so why should Windows 8 appeal....?
 
Tattysnuc said:
I've avoided trying it and I see no reason to!

Windows 7 does the job for me on my 4 machines. I don't own multiple touch screen systems as I spend more time cleaning the screen than using it, so why should Windows 8 appeal....?
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Maybe for the dozens of other features and upgrades. But then not always.
There's plenty of people who will not need to upgrade, then there's plenty of us who will upgrade to get those features, even though they aren't nessecary.

What we upto
7 or 8
I really liked it and see it as a mighty powerful Os and see it as the future everyone else will copy. it has improved over the devlopment cycle, But you would expect that to be the case though.
 
uniQ said:
You answered your own question.
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Sorry, I was more meaning to ask why APPLE... Surely any half decent touchpad would do, but then, I have just had a look at the trackpad and I see now.

Looks good.

But wont any half decent trackpad also do the same? I mean, I have a touchpad thingy for a desktop, that provides a laptop style glidepoint-touchy-thingy and that works just like the i-poo'd in that I can use that to twist and turn and zoom in with 2 fingers etc... I thought all of them did that as long as you had the software that was compatible... i.e Windows 8

Glaucus said:
it has improved over the devlopment cycle, But you would expect that to be the case though.
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I suppose that many of us feel that we could be looking at another Vista.
Vista Mark 2 if you will.

But even Vista has now been corrected ( you know what I mean ) and Vista is no longer a bad O/S or at least not as bad as it first was... In fact, only last night I was thinking of plonking Vista back onto one of my PCs ( probably wont stay on for long, but what the hell )
But anyway, yes, O/Ses do get better over time, and while many many many of us found it hard to move from XP, there is no doubt that Win7 is vastly superior in pretty much every single way to XP ( Except I have a load of apps that still no longer run right in Win7 - even in compatibility mode - thats NEVER worked for anything for me )
 
Nearly all the issues with vista was due to the new kernel, which broke drivers. Once companies had sorted drivers or you where lucky to have working hardware like I had. It was a fine Os and the improvements just improved it more.

W8 won't have that problem, it's a tweaked kernal rather than a massive overhaul so almost all w7 drivers will work.

For Coporations, it's almost certainly going to be vista esq in the sense that they've just upgraded to win7 so are unlikely to upgrade again so soon.however many Coporations will start using the phones and tablets and roll out their own apps in the awesome coporation app thingy they have in win8. That will make a future move for desktops easier and sooner than it otherwise would be.
 
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it's a tweaked kernal rather than a massive overhaul so almost all w7 drivers will work.
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Except on the test PC... That failed to install the nVidia drivers for me the other day and all I could get was a black screen that went dark-light-dark-light.

Even in SAFE mode it still did it.

I was uninstalling it anyway, and it may or may not be anything, so I didnt give a monkeys, but it showed me that there may still be issues....
 
FatRakoon said:
But wont any half decent trackpad also do the same? I mean, I have a touchpad thingy for a desktop, that provides a laptop style glidepoint-touchy-thingy and that works just like the i-poo'd in that I can use that to twist and turn and zoom in with 2 fingers etc... I thought all of them did that as long as you had the software that was compatible... i.e Windows 8
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Most trackpads will require a driver update. It remains to be seen how that works out. Best case scenario is they appear on Windows Update and a lot of people get gestures enabled. Worst case is that manufacturers don't bother and only new trackpads support it. There will be touch mouses available though so people who want it won't be completely out of luck.
 
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Except on the test PC... That failed to install the nVidia drivers for me the other day and all I could get was a black screen that went dark-light-dark-light.

Even in SAFE mode it still did it.

I was uninstalling it anyway, and it may or may not be anything, so I didnt give a monkeys, but it showed me that there may still be issues....
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There definitely will be some driver issues but nowhere near the level of Vista. I was crossing my fingers yesterday when I went to install my DataColor monitor calibrator but the Windows 7 driver worked fine.

The worst driver experience by far has been getting my MacBook Pro to work nicely but three guesses why that's been a chore...
 
Glaucus said:
Maybe for the dozens of other features and upgrades. But then not always.
There's plenty of people who will not need to upgrade, then there's plenty of us who will upgrade to get those features, even though they aren't necessary.
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Besides SkyDrive integration I can't see many reasons to upgrade my desktop and laptop from 7 to 8 at the moment. Most of the 'features' seem to be a step back from their counterparts in 7. I was reading the Blog for the photo app and the comments were pretty damning.

I could imagine my Mum coping with 8 more than she has with Vista and 7 though, but then Apple and MS seem determined to make Operating Systems for idiots these days. I'm not against simple, clean design but Apple take the biscuit with the limited functionality they offer and I hate to see MS going this way too, don't even get me started on Apple when it comes to hardware upgrades... :)

I already have an iPad 2 and apart from potential Office support I can't see much of a reason to move to a tablet running 8 over an iPad or an Android variant should I upgrade in future. I must say I really do like the idea of Surface though, something between a tablet and a laptop would really work for me, I hate typing with an onscreen keyboard and carrying around a wireless one ain't going to happen but having a simple one as part of setup does look great.
 
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