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| Thread ID: 128612 | 2013-01-03 01:03:00 | Is This True? Or Do We Take It With A Grain Of Salt? | ruup (1827) | PC World Chat |
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| 1321185 | 2013-01-03 20:01:00 | ... touch would be quite difficult on a desktop. .. That applies to most people, not only you. :) How would you use the touch-screen to do a simple word processing or a spreadsheet? I can't imagine everybody is using a touch-screen in the office in general (unless it's for some special applications)! |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1321186 | 2013-01-03 20:49:00 | 100% Bk also try any software that requires some sort of precision | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1321187 | 2013-01-07 06:18:00 | I have tried W8 and hate it! Bloated piece of software with terrible colours, with an interface which looks like a puzzle, also not compatible with some old software. I have returned to W7 which is 100% reliable and easy to use. The colours are meant to be like a puzzle with many colours, it is after all made for a world of newly borns who won't know what a "mouse" is let alone a "keyboard". Just something that is pretty and " exciting. It is however child's play - tinyurl.com |
SanChippy (16951) | ||
| 1321188 | 2013-01-07 10:23:00 | Windows 8 is great if you love Hollywood OS inspired eye candy. Not so great if you actually want to do anything with it beyond looking at it. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1321189 | 2013-01-07 19:10:00 | There are quite a few points working against 8 in my opinion, I got it myself because of the cheap upgrade option and haven't used it much at all. so here's my list; 1. Win 7 came on the back of Vista which was widely disliked, many skipped Vista or immediately switched to 7 after reviews started circulating - boosting the uptake of 7. 8 comes on the back of 7, a very popular and stable version of windows. 2. It's just too different for casual users to pick up quickly, the frustration factor trying to figure out how to do things you did on 7 is quite high - leads to bad feedback 3. I'm a clicker, I like to use the mouse. 8's new GUI forces me back to typing to find programs, a step backwards for me - are we going back to DOS?. 4. Hiding things away in menus designed to be accessed by touch gestures is just annoying on a desktop, try hovering your mouse in the corner when it's actually the border to a dual screen setup - easy to overshoot 5. All the improvements are largely invisible and not to do with the GUI, a normal user may not even notice or care about them. 6. It doesn't do anything compelling over what windows 7 does, feels like the same OS with a touchscreen GUI shoehorned onto it and the start menu removed. 7. Personally I think 8 looks worse than 7, crude and ugly. I'm sure if I made the leap and used windows 8 exclusively I'd get used to it, but I just keep going back to 7 where everything works how I'm used to and I don't get the impulse to throw the PC across the room. It wouldn't have killed MS to leave the start menu functionality intact and let people diasable the new tile interface if they wished to. That way people could have eased their way into the change with all the familiar options still there. I suspect those people who filled the desktop up with shortcuts will like 8 more than I do, I always hated a cluttered desktop and kept my shortcuts fairly minimal. For all the tablet/ smartphone comments I think a real part of the Idea is to get an app store running to get in on a market MS had no presence in, but they didn't have to force us into tiles to do it. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1321190 | 2013-01-07 21:24:00 | Like I said, Metro is for masochists. :lol: | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1321191 | 2013-01-07 21:46:00 | I h8 8. :D |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1321192 | 2013-01-07 22:24:00 | There are quite a few points working against 8 in my opinion, I got it myself because of the cheap upgrade option and haven't used it much at all. so here's my list; 1. Win 7 came on the back of Vista which was widely disliked, many skipped Vista or immediately switched to 7 after reviews started circulating - boosting the uptake of 7. 8 comes on the back of 7, a very popular and stable version of windows. 2. It's just too different for casual users to pick up quickly, the frustration factor trying to figure out how to do things you did on 7 is quite high - leads to bad feedback 3. I'm a clicker, I like to use the mouse. 8's new GUI forces me back to typing to find programs, a step backwards for me - are we going back to DOS?. 4. Hiding things away in menus designed to be accessed by touch gestures is just annoying on a desktop, try hovering your mouse in the corner when it's actually the border to a dual screen setup - easy to overshoot 5. All the improvements are largely invisible and not to do with the GUI, a normal user may not even notice or care about them. 6. It doesn't do anything compelling over what windows 7 does, feels like the same OS with a touchscreen GUI shoehorned onto it and the start menu removed. 7. Personally I think 8 looks worse than 7, crude and ugly. I'm sure if I made the leap and used windows 8 exclusively I'd get used to it, but I just keep going back to 7 where everything works how I'm used to and I don't get the impulse to throw the PC across the room. It wouldn't have killed MS to leave the start menu functionality intact and let people diasable the new tile interface if they wished to. That way people could have eased their way into the change with all the familiar options still there. I suspect those people who filled the desktop up with shortcuts will like 8 more than I do, I always hated a cluttered desktop and kept my shortcuts fairly minimal. For all the tablet/ smartphone comments I think a real part of the Idea is to get an app store running to get in on a market MS had no presence in, but they didn't have to force us into tiles to do it. + 1 Well presented; clear and direct to the point! Unfortunately, MS don't listen. |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1321193 | 2013-01-07 23:50:00 | I suspect those people who filled the desktop up with shortcuts will like 8 more than I do, I always hated a cluttered desktop and kept my shortcuts fairly minimal. {snip}Well put. I could never understand people with an icon cluttered desktop as, as soon as you open a program most of them are out of site. Common programs I had on the quick launch bar and the rest I accessed from the Start button. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1321194 | 2013-01-08 01:05:00 | I'm trying for force myself over but I can't just leave 7. Luckily for me my lappy has 2 HDD bays so I'm putting 8 on another disk so I can slowly force myself over and fix little things one at a time rather than jumping in and having problem after problem to solve/get accustomed to. | The Error Guy (14052) | ||
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