Apart from bloody Balmer the economist running a tech company...
I want to make one thing clear.. Windows 7 is the best operating system to have ever been released by Microsoft..
Windows 8 is the worst piece of shit in the whole history of microsoft and i can probably guess theres some kind of espionage thing going on where they convert all user hate mail about the new ui to positive reviews.
Anyway --i think this is the best for everyone because now we can all buy macs. Awesome!
Yeah but it will be a bit unsecure.
That's like saying Steve Jobs had a bit of cancer. XP systems will get flooded with malware.
Probably not! The bastards who write that crap aren't going to be bothered with an obsolete OS that will have very few users by then. No, the proliferaters of malware would want to target OSes where they'd get the greatest impact... ie, Win 7 and Win 8
Of course, that's where their efforts will be focused.
But it's also where Microsoft's efforts are focused, and they're much harder to break into by default.
Hence why many more high profile Mac and third party software hacks have been going on than Windows ones.
Personally i'll stick with W7 till death do us part. It works fine, there is/will be nothing major in W8,9,10,11 that is so earth shattering it'll be giving me so much additional value it'll make up for being trapped into MS's version of Apple. Security is not an argument, you can't make an OS safe against human stupidity. If you get an email with "your bank needs you to confirm your details" and you answer it no OS is going to safe your ass.
Already compared between 7 and 8, 8 is a bit faster if you have a stopwatch at hand, it has a few extra features which are bad copies of existing 3rd party software and an extremely annoying interface which hurts my eyes.
So what it comes down to the general consensus is when you change w8 back to w7 it's pretty good.
Wow, that's some selling point.
Windows is at a dead end because the codebase is way beyond anyone's grasp to be able to make any changes without introducing a gazillion of bugs. When it's done it's done.
So they just strip off the layers, go back to the most basic core and start anew. Unfortunately with this idiotic concept of having the same interface for completely different usages. As it seems there are enough suckers around to buy into it, but then again there's one born every minute.
Once, far way in the future, hardware will so far advanced it'll be really possible to have HAL around to do your wishes, till then it'll be just down to what we've got now. A screen, a keyboard and sore eyes.
No need to add a sore back into the mix from making superfluous repetitious motions to touch a screen. Nobody stays 18, this stuff has to work also after you have been using it for years on end without saddling you up with bad eyesight and RSI in just about every upper joint of your body.
Actually if it's a virus that wouldn't work in Unix or Linux.
Hopefully not HAL, I would settle for Jarvis from Iron Man.
Your need for a pattern is allowing you fabricate one. Windows 2k? Yeah, pattern wrecker.
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^^ I lol'd! Topdecker
Anyway, with Windows 8 as a few others (Kantok and Phoon) have pointed out requires a good trial period before the old habits one cultivated are shown to be antiquated and better options presented with the new interface.
There are almost too many to list but things like being able to resize the app window to flip back and forth between critical active apps by clicking either on the left or right half of the screen is just plain intuitive, being able to swipe left or right to advance or retreat through forum pages, being able to view changes in an app via tiles without having to actually launch the app, the ability to truly integrate with tablets and windows phones for end-users. etc. etc.
I have been using Windows 8 since the beta and I still find little new things constantly that make me smile. Someone mentioned the lacking MS app store earlier? Well I for one don't need 100 apps that do the same thing......just 1 that is really really good at doing that 1 thing.
While I still use Windows 7 on some of my systems I am happily using Windows 8 on the others and can't wait to upgrade my phone to a Win8 phone as well as updating my 2005 notebook with an MS Surface.
The future is here. Resistance isn't futile.........it's just dumb.
If you are stupid enough to go to the site and fill in the information it is requesting then Unix or Linux isn't going to save you. I believe that was the original gist of the "if you get an email.... " statement.
The only thing bad with Vista was the vendor slowness of getting drivers developed. If you had good drivers then Vista was solid.
2000 was the NT equivalent ....ME was the 'domestic' Windows flavour....and it was a DOG....
And 2000 wasn't that great either....I ended up 'skinning' its BSOD cos I saw it so often....
Yes, and the 'brilliant, Einstein' thing about it was when I couldn't get Vista to understand I had an ADSL Modem attached ....so couldn't get on the Net to access those effing non-existent drivers.
Tits-on-a-bull-useless.
That doesn't make Vista a bad OS, but your modem vendor sloppy, slowass dickheads.
I never had that problem with Vista. It connected to the internet during installation and automatically installed many of the drivers I required. I only had to install a handful manually, but that was only at the beginning. By the time I went 64 bit some 6 - 8 months later, all the drivers were available and installed automatically... bar one. My TV tuner card was relatively new and I had to install those drivers manually.
I'm finding the same thing with Win 8. All my drivers have been installed automatically and everything runs like a dream. including my programs. The only thing I haven't been able install program-wise is Acronis True Image 2012, but the Acronis home page says that they are working on that. Other than that, Win 8 is turning out to be a bloody good OS and I'm happy to use it as my primary OS.
In other words it's pretty much win7 but without the freedom to do with as you please?
He must be taking notice
http://finance.ninemsn.com.au/newsbusiness/8563756/microsofts-head-of-windows-departs
Cheers
Macca
What? I'm doing pretty much everything I did in Win 7... and more.
Well, evidently this guy was one of them, and now he's gone...
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/microsofts-windows-chief-sinofsky-steps-down-1C7024738
Insert conspiracy theory here, or
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/why-steven-sinofsky-is-out-at-microsoft/
Moreover, if Windows 8 were the problem, there's no way that Julie Larson-Green would be selected to lead Windows engineering. Larson-Green was a trusted Sinofsky lieutenant who came with him to Windows from the Office team and led the development of Windows 8's controversial user interface. If Windows 8 does prove to be a failure, then it's as much on Larson-Green's head as it is Sinofsky's.
Just an aside.
Vizio is now in the computer biz and they have a very sweet all-in-one with a 27" screen. With Win7 it's $800.
With Win8, and a slightly smaller 16:9 aspect touch-screen monitor, it's $1000.
I used Windows 8 for a little over two weeks and just went back to Windows 7. Using Windows 8 for me was like having two mostly incompatible personalities in one head and the noise it caused got worse as time went on. I need a clean and uncluttered desktop display. Anything else is noise for me.
They promoted the person who was apparently largely responsible for Windows 8 according to what I have read. Personally, I don't like having choice removed by fascists. It would have been a simple matter to tailor the Windows 8 installation to the end user but, NO!, the idiot users must be forced into submission or die. Personally, owing to physical problems, I will never use a touch screen, tablet, laptop or smartphone, etc. Screw Microsoft for trying to make me irrelevant.
I agree. Windows 8 is being stuffed down the throats of those looking for newer laptops made within the last month. I can't even find a Windows 7 notebook at any local store.
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