Windows 8 is....

Woden · 6 Oct 2013 at 00:05

Ryan-3 said:
4xDVD Drives in Raid0.

You know what I mean though. I gave 8.1 four minutes before I turned the room blue with hatred.

A whole 4 mins. You must have gotten a full and in-depth knowledge of the OS then!

OpenToSuggestions · 6 Oct 2013 at 00:07

Best upgrade I've had this year is going back to windows 7. I dislike 8 but would like to try 8.1.

linktoinsanity · 6 Oct 2013 at 12:06

V F said:
Love it when some people lose a conversation and go, WHATEVER in that certain American way. Then try to play it off with rolls eyes like it means nothing to them.

Yet you say you enjoy winding them up but you can't stick it.

What? The roll of the eyes is someone showing signs of giving up or a sign of annoyance, not saying that it means nothing to them. I also don't see how I lost the conversation. :confused:

Did you read the posts before the one you've replied to? It was a direct reply to Glaucus. The one where I named names was tongue in cheek (clue in the wink), not meant to annoy anyone. So basically all you've done is waded into something without fully understanding and made a bold idiotic statement.

mmj_uk said:
Considering the failure of Windows 8 commercially the amount of bashing and whinging towards it is actually quite low.

The vocal minority who have nothing but praise for it and try to suppress all criticism just have to accept that it is not a well liked OS even if they themselves believe it to be utterly perfect, even of the current user base I bet a lot use mods like Startisback and the countless other Metro replacements.

This.

Elevon · 6 Oct 2013 at 12:43

Lucifurr said:
Wow, you must have a quick PC to install Windows 7 in 4 minutes

Hehe well no OS is perfect and you always get some that hate a particular OS,personally took me two weeks to fully adjust to Win8 (not bad when you think I was using Win95 to Win7 like for 18 years doing something the same way)and that was without any third party Start button mods,also when I installed Win8.1 it installed in less then 15 mins and I thought something was wrong but no, clean install was fine

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I could also say Linux Mint has a superior start button menu IMHO to Win7 and would be using that full time (one of my PCs has Linux Mint installed)if I was not a gamer,Linux has come a long way IMHO ,however still not quite up there with Windows user friendly base but not far off.

Anyway roll on Win9 I think they need something new to moan about

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theheyes · 6 Oct 2013 at 14:10

linktoinsanity I added a note to my previous post - thanks for getting in touch. No hard feelings and apologies for perhaps misreading your intentions.

Macro · 6 Oct 2013 at 14:16

Elevon said:
Anyway roll on Win9 I think they need something new to moan about .

Indeed, it's no different to the Luddites who moaned about Windows XP with is gaudy colours, GPU & CPU resources being used needlessly for it's "fisher price" interface and spent their time "tweaking" the classic shell to try to turn XP back into Windows95 where they felt safe and understood how things worked. Change isn't for everyone and unsurprisingly the ones least able to cope with change are the ones that moan the most and attack anyone positive in the hope it justifies and masks their own inability to move with the times.

Their indignant rants about the "good old days" and railing against this "new fangled" stuff make me smile every time bless them.

gareth170 · 6 Oct 2013 at 15:51

Macro said:
Change isn't for everyone and unsurprisingly the ones least able to cope with change are the ones that moan the most and attack anyone positive in the hope it justifies and masks their own inability to move with the times.

i've always said not everybody will like something about a new OS but rather than moaning on forums those people that don't like something about the new OS should either contact MS to give them feedback and/or just get on will it and change it to how you want it, it's not has if theres no way to do it.

what gets me is the things that they moan about can easily be solved by themselves for free

linktoinsanity · 6 Oct 2013 at 17:34

theheyes said:
linktoinsanity I added a note to my previous post - thanks for getting in touch. No hard feelings and apologies for perhaps misreading your intentions.

No worries.

gareth170 said:
I've always said not everybody will like something about a new OS but rather than moaning on forums those people that don't like something about the new OS should either contact MS to give them feedback and/or just get on will it and change it to how you want it, it's not as if there is no way to do it.

(Only corrected to make it easier to read what I am replying to

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But it's by writing on forums like this that Microsoft can actually gain some feedback. It's also useful to find out whether I'm just being fussy about something or if it's a shared view. Clearly the lack of a Start Menu does annoy quite a few people.

I saw in an earlier post that you said that you never had an option earlier to make it easier for yourself (I am aware of your circumstances), well perhaps there should have been, but that's no reason not to give an option now.

gareth170 · 6 Oct 2013 at 18:08

linktoinsanity said:
I saw in an earlier post that you said that you never had an option earlier to make it easier for yourself (I am aware of your circumstances), well perhaps there should have been, but that's no reason not to give an option now.

yes it would have been nice but i accept MS or any company can't make everybody happy. but tbh this is the first OS i'm so happy with because i don't have to change anything, all previous windows OS's i've had to change the UI, i could have either moaned about it and stoped using windows because of it or just get on with it and change it myself to how i want it.

surely if i'm able to do it others can..

quish · 6 Oct 2013 at 18:25

I have to say I like it, it seems quicker than 7 to me

V F · 7 Oct 2013 at 09:37

linktoinsanity said:
What? The roll of the eyes is someone showing signs of giving up or a sign of annoyance, not saying that it means nothing to them. I also don't see how I lost the conversation.

Did you read the posts before the one you've replied to? It was a direct reply to Glaucus. The one where I named names was tongue in cheek (clue in the wink), not meant to annoy anyone. So basically all you've done is waded into something without fully understanding and made a bold idiotic statement.

This.

Loved the spin to save face. Rolls eyes has always been sarcastic remarks. You knew what you were doing.

linktoinsanity · 7 Oct 2013 at 09:40

V F said:
Loved the spin to save face. Rolls eyes has always been sarcastic remarks. You knew what you were doing.

No they haven't. When you see someone rolling their eyes they don't always talk sarcastically.

the action of rolling one’s eyes, typically as an expression of exasperation, disbelief, or disapproval

Source: http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/eye--rolling

Get your facts right. :rolleyes:

V F · 7 Oct 2013 at 09:44

What happens on the internet and real life is two different things and 99.9% of the time it's always sarcasm on the net.

linktoinsanity · 7 Oct 2013 at 10:38

V F said:
What happens on the internet and real life is two different things and 99.9% of the time it's always sarcasm on the net.

Now who's attempting to spin to save face?

Well, my rolling eyes must be in the 0.1% of the time then. Glaucus also replied to the tongue-in-cheek post that started all this with a :rolleyes:

and that was not sarcasm either.

I'm not going to reply to any more of your posts on this subject. I don't want to derail the thread and anyone with any sense will see my point, so if you don't, you aren't worth replying to in the first place.

paradigm · 7 Oct 2013 at 10:41

Ok guys, let's calm down the bickering and either get this thread back onto some kind of topic, or it'll just get locked.

ubersonic · 7 Oct 2013 at 10:57

mmj_uk said:
Considering the failure of Windows 8 commercially the amount of bashing and whinging towards it is actually quite low.

Windows 8 has been a commercial success :S

It hasn't shipped as many copies as XP (first major home OS since 98, also first combined Home/Professional OS as it amalgamated the 9x and NT users) or 7 (yet, and 7 was the first OS since XP that wasn't massively panned for it's hardware requirements). But it was never going to do that as it's been nowhere near as long since the last O/S, shorter product refreshes mean less upgrades, that's just the way it works, it has of course trounced Vista sales in just a few months lol.

It already has a larger market share than OSX, Linux, Vista and in a couple of months will have surpassed XP. The odd thing is that 7's market share has remained steady and it looks like 8 has gained it's market share from XP and NT (that includes 2000) which is pretty normal as a new MS O/S usually has little effect on the last one and more of an impact on the older ones.

mmj_uk said:
The vocal minority who have nothing but hate for it just have to accept that it is a well liked OS even if they themselves believed the Start menu to be utterly perfect

Fixed for you, you're welcome

Raumarik · 7 Oct 2013 at 11:14

I've never had any major issue with Windows 8, at home I actually think it's a marginal improvement on Windows 7. However I do think MS messed up the 8.1 update timing, should have gotten it out sooner and it would have encouraged more companies to move from XP to Windows 8, at the moment everyone seems to be moving to Windows 7 instead.

Making a mistake, which some saw with the metro interface should have been acknowledged earlier. Personally I'm not fussed about the interface, it does the job, but I can see from a corporate/support point of view why it's an issue.

Regardless.. Windows 7 and 8 are my favourite OS's at the moment including even IOS, let's just hope 8.1 which I haven't tried yet does improve it.

ubersonic · 7 Oct 2013 at 13:02

Halfmad said:
However I do think MS messed up the 8.1 update timing, should have gotten it out sooner and it would have encouraged more companies to move from XP to Windows 8, at the moment everyone seems to be moving to Windows 7 instead.

That's strange I seem to be seeing the opposite, all the network transitions were doing seem to be to Server 2012 and Windows 8 at the moment, and according to global statistics 8 seems to be stealing market share from XP/Vista/2000 not 7 (it's share has remained static since before the 8 launch, however that could be because the hsare it's losing to 8 is being replaced by share stolen from XP).

Halfmad said:
Making a mistake, which some saw with the metro interface should have been acknowledged earlier. Personally I'm not fussed about the interface, it does the job, but I can see from a corporate/support point of view why it's an issue.

From a corporate domain standpoint Metro appears to be a big improvement over Start, the feedback we have been getting is that people find it very reminiscent of the old Novell Lanboss launcher companies would install over XP/2000/NT4 to make them more like 3.xx, when the Metro interface is setup via domain policy it works extremely well in a corporate environment and its very easy to use.

Ryan-3 · 7 Oct 2013 at 15:40

Macro said:
Change isn't for everyone and unsurprisingly the ones least able to cope with change are the ones that moan the most and attack anyone positive in the hope it justifies and masks their own inability to move with the times.

Depends if it changes for the better. Which is why I won't be going past Win 7 & use OS X for any use other than gaming.

paradigm · 7 Oct 2013 at 15:49

It (Windows 8) has changed for the better. If it hadn't then Apple wouldn't have gone for the flat design of iOS7, considering they were the main driver of skeuomorphism with iOS prior to 7. Apple wouldn't have been bothered about implementing Launchpad, if having your mobile-device GUI on the desktop wasn't a route they expect the desktop space to head in the near future.

Outside of the OS space, look at the BBC main homepage, and tell me it's not Metro/ModernUI insipired