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| Thread ID: 127692 | 2012-11-07 06:39:00 | Windows 8 | kenj (9738) | PC World Chat |
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| 1311017 | 2012-11-07 19:44:00 | So far everyone has gotten Pro, as either an upgrade @ $49 or $19.99 if the PC is within the time period. If its going to be a new PC, then more than likely will be the straight W8, not the pro unless they want media center at some stage or its in a place that requires the features of Pro.. Wouldn't say that - just calling it as I see it. So far out of all the upgrades only had one person go no big deal ho-hum. No one else seems to have any problems working out where things are. When you say upgrade, upgrade from what? I have win pro 7 at mo! |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1311018 | 2012-11-07 19:57:00 | If you have Win7 Pro, why 'upgrade' or 'downgrade' to Win 8? Unless you have a touch screen, or, some spare money to spend, then it's a different story. | bk T (215) | ||
| 1311019 | 2012-11-07 20:31:00 | When you say upgrade, upgrade from what? I have win pro 7 at mo! The majority of upgrades have been from Windows 7 Home Pre only two from Vista. As BK T mentioned , if you have W7 pro, then W8 is mainly for Touchscreen. Had a few people simply want to change to Windows 8 because its new, and they wanted to try it. Bit like "Apple" products and some people who like them -- Its new so got to have it ;) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1311020 | 2012-11-07 21:10:00 | If you have Win7 Pro, why 'upgrade' or 'downgrade' to Win 8? Unless you have a touch screen, or, some spare money to spend, then it's a different story. Because it was free (to me), and a newer version. :p |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1311021 | 2012-11-07 21:18:00 | Because it was free (to me), and a newer version. :p That seems to be a valid reason. |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1311022 | 2012-11-07 21:30:00 | I like it a lot. No longer I need to install 3rd party software to mount ISO each time, just double click and that's it. I shoot photos in RAW formats and Win8 just reads it. Having task bar on ALL monitor is definitely a bonus. Don't think I will switch back to Win 7. |
SKT174 (1319) | ||
| 1311023 | 2012-11-07 22:22:00 | Have to say now that I have it installed on the spare pc and have been tinkering with it in my spare time (which I dont really have), and been doing some reading to get up to speed with it, that I'm warming to Windows 8, I'm getting to see where they are coming from with it and its not that hard to work with. Have to say the addition of the right click menu at the bottom left corner of the desktop is a handy feature. There are still things I dont like though and as yet I wont be replacing my Win 7 OS. | Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1311024 | 2012-11-07 22:25:00 | My mum came into the room as I was whizzing about in Windows 8 and she seems jealous of my "fancy" interface, and my card games :D | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1311025 | 2012-11-07 22:35:00 | It still hasn't won me over either, running dual boot with win 7 for now and find when I use win 8 it get's irritating fairly quickly. I was wanting to use app versions of programs I already use but I like to park them on a second screen and it seems I can't do that with apps. For straight out gaming though, you just pin the game to start and it gets it's own tile - you could have a start screen with big easy buttons linking straight to all your games with very little effort. Steam is a little trickier but you can pin the main program to start easy enough and use the library to launch games. Personally I think the crowd that likes to fill the desktop up with shortcuts will mostly find win 8 ok, and those like me who preferred a few pinned to the taskbar and a few on the desktop and everything else tidied away in the start menu will have more of an adjustment. I've never liked more than a single vertical column of shortcuts on my desktop, things just dissappear in the mess. I find multi-tasking more difficult on windows 8 so far, especially under the new GUI and app system which seems focussed on full screen single task at a time functionality - not Ideal on a desktop IMO. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1311026 | 2012-11-07 23:27:00 | My mum came into the room as I was whizzing about in Windows 8 and she seems jealous of my "fancy" interface, and my card games :D \Phew, for a minute there I thought she had caught you up to more embarrassing activity. |
Cicero (40) | ||
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