Windows H8

[Stalwart]

Windows H8 

Windows 8 on a PC makes as much sense as a steering wheel in an airplane or a flight yoke in a car.

Build PC OS for PC and tablet/phone OS for tablet/phone.

Is anyone else thinking WTF Microsoft?

[Shuffler]

Word is you can turn off the interface on a PC.

I will not be going to 8 as 7 is so good. M$ is known for producing good then bad then good OSs.

It is time for the bad OS.

[Skuzzy]

I bought W7 to replace my XP for my next build.  Anyone with XP better grab W7 before it is gone.  W7 is much better for desktop than W8 will ever be.

[zack1234]

I replaced vista with win 7 and is very good

[GScholz]

Have run W8 developers preview for some time. Works great and I find it quicker to start than W7, and I like what they have done to the GUI.

[Trell]

Windows 8 Works well.  It is faster on most of the stuff i work with compaired to 7.
the start screen is just a replacement for the start button.  You get used to it.

I learned early on it is easier to just click the Microsoft button and time the name of what i am looking for then look for it in the start screen.

[bozon]

Who cares about the features of win8? All I need is one big icon for starting AH. That is all the use I get out of windows.

[Skuzzy]

If you want to support Microsoft being able to tell you what you can install and what you cannot install on your computer, then that is your choice.

If you want to give even more information to Microsoft than ever before, that is your choice.

If you like being spied on, that is your choice.

If you like that any and all information, on your computer, can be made available to law enforcement without any type of warrants, then that is your choice.

Windows 7 is bad enough, but 8 takes it all to new levels.

The day is coming where you will not be able to own any applications.  You will rent them, paying to use them for a specific time.  This is where Microsoft is going and each iteration of the OS, they bring it one step closer to reality.  If that is what you want, then by all means, go out and buy Windows 8.

For me, Windows 7 is the last OS I will own from Microsoft.  I will not support the direction they are taking.  I hope most people will make that same choice.

[Xjazz]

I installed Ubuntu 11.10 parallel with g'old  XP. The dual boot works fine.

[Maverick]

Not being sarcastic or anything Skuzzy, what options are there for new PC's other than win7 or rather when win7 is no longer available?

[guncrasher]

Not being sarcastic or anything Skuzzy, what options are there for new PC's other than win7 or rather when win7 is no longer available?

hopefully they will realize that windows 8 isnt what people want and will change in windows 9.  or at the very least somebody will file a lawsuit preventing Microsoft from being an agent of the police or perhaps invasion of privacy.

or hopefully by then I will be able to install Ubuntu on my computer.


semp

[100Coogn]

I replaced vista with win 7 and is very good

Me too.  I'm very happy with Windows 7.  I chose the OEM version over Retail, mainly for the difference in cost.

Coogan

[Skuzzy]

Not being sarcastic or anything Skuzzy, what options are there for new PC's other than win7 or rather when win7 is no longer available?

I think that is a very good question.  For me it is easy.  Not so much for others.  

Windows 7 is not as bad as Windows 8, but worse than XP.  At least you can install products on Windows 7 without Microsoft having to give you permission.  Windows 7 does report application usage to Microsoft, but it does not have the ability to grant Microsoft full access, without your knowledge (well, unless you do something really stupid and open your computer up to them).

With Windows 8 Microsoft can remotely remove files and applications from your computer and you cannot stop them.  They can get a list of every file on your computer and you cannot stop them.

Then again, Google does the same with Android, and Apple does the same with all their OS's as well.  

I know I am beating a drum no one can hear or cares about, but I have to try.  Maybe no one really cares about privacy or being in control of the products and data they pay good money for.

[Ardy123]

I think that is a very good question.  For me it is easy.  Not so much for others.  

Windows 7 is not as bad as Windows 8, but worse than XP.  At least you can install products on Windows 7 without Microsoft having to give you permission.  Windows 7 does report application usage to Microsoft, but it does not have the ability to grant Microsoft full access, without your knowledge (well, unless you do something really stupid and open your computer up to them).

With Windows 8 Microsoft can remotely remove files and applications from your computer and you cannot stop them.  They can get a list of every file on your computer and you cannot stop them.

Then again, Google does the same with Android, and Apple does the same with all their OS's as well.  

I know I am beating a drum no one can hear or cares about, but I have to try.  Maybe no one really cares about privacy or being in control of the products and data they pay good money for.

I agree with your sentiment Scuzzy, but has anyone actually read their EULAs? you have been renting software for years now. Most EULAs state that you have a 'license to run' not own a certain software. There are some OS alternatives.. (various linux distros) that are not hard to use but the direction has been clear for about 20 years now... bow to your new corporate overlords...

[bozon]

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With Windows 8 Microsoft can remotely remove files and applications from your computer and you cannot stop them.  They can get a list of every file on your computer and you cannot stop them.

They can do that ?! 
That is one OS that I will never use for anything except gaming  - and even that, only in case I run out of alternatives. When that day arrives, can AH finally be ported to Linux please?