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Win8 was stupid, on a desktop. On a tablet, or a phone with a nice clear, small touch screen and big fat fingers it works fine.
On a desktop, with two 22" non touch monitors and a mouse? No thanks. A massive backwards step in UI design compared with Win7.
So...out comes the 8.1 update, after only a year of paying customers says "no - I'd rather upgrade back to Win 7". Is it enough? No. It's better than Win8 was - but it's still a PITA to use in comparison in many ways, and feels like a hurried "bodge".
They clearly didn't listen again - no surprises there - but you would have thought that after the Vista fun and games they would have at least tried sooner and harder.
I'll wait for Whine and see what we get there - I skipped Vista completely, so I'll probably do the same with Weight.
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Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: On a desktop, with two 22" non touch monitors and a mouse?
Not that only, but I can't event touch my monitors - they are big and far...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Can you touch the little "Proxy Screen" that transmits the touch data to the big ones?
WHAT - you don't have one?
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The trouble with people,
is that they want to hear only what they want to hear.
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Completely agree!
As I grow older I've found that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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I got win7 and it works for me.
I don't see any reason why I should change to win8.
If a big hype is made about win9 and everyone loves it, then only will I get it.
But none was made about win8.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
<< please vote!! >>
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Personally, the improvements to memory usage and file performance more than justified the effort of installing a Start Menu replacement. The "Modern UI" is an awful idea on a desktop system - I never touch it.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Why drive a car when a horse and buggy are just fine? 
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From the criticism against win8.x it seems to me that I would be reverting back to horse riding once I move over. I'm fairly happy in my car thank you!
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
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I still voted "no", though 
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I feel discriminated against, there should be an option for those of us who have never touched an 8.* system. I work in a financial institution - super conservative with their OS. I bought my last home system just as 8 came out and it has not worn out yet.
 I suppose I will have to get one some time but I figure to hold out for W9, I managed to duck Vista so I'm on a roll here.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Me too so I went for no as not liking something is not the same as disliking it.
It is gonna skew their results though.
In this vital piece of research.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Well I've never used it either, I went for yes, that'll help skew the results back a little ha ha ha
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Window is a product so versioning is ongoing thing, but How many of us really knows the difference between win8 and win8.1. ?
Few months back me and my friend had same confusion about windows 2008 and windows 2008 R2, So the main question remain unanswered, How efficiently we deal with Windows ? Do we really use/take advantage of each functionality present in windows ?
I have seen many peoples installed Windows server 2008 on their laptop and use it for multimedia purpose, playing songs, videos 
It makes me think... 
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The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
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Knowing the difference ... maybe not.
The user experience difference much more. Since upgrading from 8 to 8.1 most of my metro apps stopped working, including the store itself. This is more than annoyance. I tried resetting the store, resintalling stuff, clearing caches and download folders. Nothing seems to work. Microsofts response : reinstall Windows, which will cause you to lose all applications and downloaded content, but keep your documents. The documents are the least of my problems. The downloaded and installed 1,5Tb of applications poses a much more serious concern.
To top it off, I downloaded (through Windows update) a new hotfix over the weekend, hoping it would resolve some of these issues. It turns out that I can't open ANY metro apps anymore. Even Minesweeper is bombing out now (pun intended).
I really don't want to go through a reinstall again after just 2 months. 
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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DJ van Wyk wrote: Microsofts response : reinstall
Next chance you get, tell them you went did an O/S install, but this time, to Linux: Problem Solved! And don't forget to thank them for their hint.
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Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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