Windows 8 is a Joke!

Halfmad... getting a little aggressive bud. Dudes posts are not very coherent I admit....

I have no issue with Win 8. I do wish it went straight to the desktop on boot, but that's honestly my only real gripe. It does everything I need and has a few smart tricks that I often use. After the first week I was over my "OMG, where the **** is everything this is stupid" mentality, and now I really like it :-)
 
I did not get on too well with Win 8 but liked the added features. So I used Decor8 and Start8 for about a fiver and mine is now the same as 7 but with the added features of 8. Win Win really....
 
If you have so many problems, why not let Microsoft know? Be a devil and refuse to pay for Windows 8.

Also if you don't like paying for an OS, see my previous post, that will support new hardware for you.
 
I'm using the 8.1 preview and I love it, I have to admit that it does take a bit of getting use to but I really like Windows 8 a lot :)

Stelly
 
Scougar said:
Halfmad... getting a little aggressive bud. Dudes posts are not very coherent I admit....

I have no issue with Win 8. I do wish it went straight to the desktop on boot, but that's honestly my only real gripe. It does everything I need and has a few smart tricks that I often use. After the first week I was over my "OMG, where the **** is everything this is stupid" mentality, and now I really like it :-)
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Not aggressive at all Scougar, just a little bored of reading about how poor a product is by people who generally haven't actually used it for any period of time or who have put no effort into putting together a plan for rolling it out.

I just genuinely don't understand the bash Windows 8 brigade, I don't particularly like metro other than the very quick and easy searching options on it and the first thing I do when I login is to mash Windows+D to go to desktop, but I'm not on here bashing an OS which is very similar to the one they all use, but with improved security and some very nice additional features ;)

It's a bit like the AV threads these days, we need a sticky that states "Gripe about Windows 8 in here", I'd avoid the threads but in all honesty they beg to be picked apart.
 
I know how you feel OP, having to make two clicks to get direct access to Device Manager, Control Panel, Command Prompt, and a whole list of other system utilities brings me to tears, it's such a chore.

/sarcasm.
 
Halfmad said:
Not aggressive at all Scougar, just a little bored of reading about how poor a product is by people who generally haven't actually used it for any period of time or who have put no effort into putting together a plan for rolling it out.
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Then don't read them.
 
I like the boot up in a few seconds. I no longer need to turn on the PC and go for a pee or something first lol.. it really is booted within about 5 to 10 seconds :-) (I'm not a fan of hibernate/sleep functions and prefer to boot fresh everytime so to me I like it.).

I initially hated the clustered arrangement of applications in Metro, but I like just being able to start typing and find the application I want easily.

Things I don't like I suppose: Delay in Tile updates (Facebook updates are slow, you see a news story in the news tile, so you click on the tile, and it loads a totally different story). Shutting down has to be done by the button, I don't like that you'd have to create a button to do it quickly.
 
Just the same on Windows 7

Click start, Click Control Panel Or Click Start Right Click Computer, Click again.

Windows 8 Windows key, Type Device Click Icon, or Add Device Manager to start if you use it so much.

The people who think it take more clicks on Windows 8 are the People who are using it wrong

Simple!
 
I really don't understand a lot of the arguments from either side of the great Windows 8 debate. I run it on my desktop because I look after Server 2012 and the RSAT for 2012 isn't yet available for Windows 7 (or might never be, who knows), however it's bearable at best and I don't see any merit for Metro apps on a dual screen desktop, but day-to-day I haven't really had to change how I do things.

However, calling people idiots for not being able to figure it out is a bit of a stretch. There are a lot of people who are very clever in the field that they work in who use a computer for emailing and other general office tasks who have learned that to get to their documents they click the button at the bottom-left of the screen and click on Documents. If there are no benefits to migrating these types of staff to Windows 8 then why on earth would anyone invest time and money in training people and then the inevitable increased helpdesk workload when the other option is to just stick with Windows 7? I don't see why the end customers should have to foot the bill for Microsoft attempting to become relevant in the tablet field by making the desktop experience equally terrible.

Microsoft's main focus is still enterprise IT since Bob on the street isn't really buying PCs any more, they would go a long way to improve take-up of Windows 8 if they produced this sort of training material themselves and made it available for VL customers to distribute amongst their workforce. And for christ's sake allow us to deploy shortcuts pinned to the taskbar without some horrible scripting hack.
 
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However, calling people idiots for not being able to figure it out is a bit of a stretch. There are a lot of people who are very clever in the field that they work in who use a computer for emailing and other general office tasks who have learned that to get to their documents they click the button at the bottom-left of the screen and click on Documents. If there are no benefits to migrating these types of staff to Windows 8 then why on earth would anyone invest time and money in training people and then the inevitable increased helpdesk workload when the other option is to just stick with Windows 7? .
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People in offices get paid to work with the tools the companies use,nowadays a lot of companies expect and demand workers to be at a the level of being able to do the job they get paid for and also adaptable within the office environment,what you are saying I disagree with,if the company installs Win8,9,10 or whatever then the paid staff should at the very least work with the OS the company use even if they need training.

It's like lets spoon feed the office workers and pay them for it ,sorry that's not how companies work.


I know a lot of companies that would sack incompetent staff that could not handle the OS the company use within the working environment.
 
Caged said:
I don't see why the end customers should have to foot the bill for Microsoft attempting to become relevant in the tablet field by making the desktop experience equally terrible.
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The the companies can stay on XP (at their own risk), move to Windows 7 or wait and see what comes out from MS in the future. They can also consider moving to a flavour of linux or one of the other operating systems available.

Nobody is forcing anyone to do anything.
 
Elevon said:
People in offices get paid to work with the tools the companies use,nowadays a lot of companies expect and demand workers to be at a the level of being able to do the job they get paid for and also adaptable within the office environment,what you are saying I disagree with,if the company installs Win8,9,10 or whatever then the paid staff should at the very least work with the OS the company use even if they need training.

It's like lets spoon feed the office workers and pay them for it ,sorry that's not how companies work.


I know a lot of companies that would sack incompetent staff that could not handle the OS the company use within the working environment.
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I never said don't change, but good luck justifying training costs, cost associated with the lost productivity in the changeover, and the costs associated with larger demands on the 1st line help desk when they were all a result of a Windows 8 migration that won't have an ROI. Upgrading for the sake of it is daft.
 
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