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I'm in "whatever" mode...
I don't really care as long as it's 7 or 8.
I have Windows 7 at work and 8 at home.
Both work fine, and I use Windows 8 the same way as I use 7 so for me there's not much difference besides the Start Menu and the file transfer options... :p
So again... Whatever.
I won't explicitly upgrade, I'll use either one of them with the same joy
Cheers!
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I'll be moving over to OS X next. Want to get into apple development. Had a sniff at Windows8 at one of those demo points and didn't like it. It felt plastic, if you know what I mean.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
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W8 can only display one window at a time so it's totally useless for me. Also it's really unintuitive and messy. I had to teach it to an old friend last year and I was totally lost.
I think this[^] article summarizes my thoughs perfectly.
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Well, the desktop has been basically left untouched. Even my kids hardly noticed the switch, when it came to application usage.
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That is except for making it uglier. I mean aero and transparency were turned off and now we have ugly flat corners on all windows. There is program that can bring transparency somewhat back but I have not seen anything to fix the square corners on windows.
John
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That's funny, I regularly run Windows 8 with multiple Windows, so you seem to be talking from the wrong orifice on this occasion.
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RTFM. W8 comes with an excellent tutorial (right there on the startup page). Those who won't RTFM should STFU.
"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them." Eric Hoffer
"The failure mode of 'clever' is 'a**hole'" John Scalzi
"Only buzzards feed on their friends" Patrick Dorinson
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I talk myself into getting the Surface with the full OS, but waiting for reviews...
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but I have to install all usable applications again after installation and it's boring. it will require more time to spent on this task.
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...and I had to bought new one.
Nice gift .
Too old dog for those new stuffs.
I don't know why they have to change almost everything every five years.
I hate ribbons. And Metro.
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Totally agreed. It has been a good idea, 12 years back in time, to "skip" Windows Millenium... It was a VERY good idea to skip Vista, and now it's a good idea to skip Win8.
Maybe they come a little back to the roots with the next version. But 8 is like... "face the thing that should not be".
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So tell me, why was it VERY good idea to skip Vista? Your personal opinion, not the "common knowledge". I've used it from first public beta 'till Windows 7 public beta came out and I can only think about positive things it had and did to Windows ecosystem.
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Gotta agree for the most part. I held off for about 8 or 10 months on my main system to let drivers mature and 3rd party devs to mostly stop assuming their software would have admin rights when it was running; but otherwise the enhanced security and widespread 64bit support were killer features.
W8 like W7 kept the driver model the same (and didn't require a major min requirements bump either) so there aren't any show-stoppers in the launch other than "OMG they changed stuff! WHAAAA!!!11eleventyone!!11" which happens with every release to some degree or another.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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