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| Thread ID: 127310 | 2012-10-16 20:26:00 | Windows 8 Gets "Overwhelmingly Negative" Response from Vendors, Expectations Plummet | Trev (427) | PC World Chat |
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| 1307186 | 2012-10-17 05:17:00 | Personally I'm excited to see win8 on the market. I think it is time M$ stepped in and made OEM's produce some decent hardware, although in NZ we are kinda backed up with the worlds shittiest brands and the shittiest models from those brands. Introducing standards like they did for WP would be great EG: Type 1 (Class Budget) Type 2 (Class Office/Student) Type 3 (Media) Type 4 (Heavy Media) Type 5 (Power User) I mean, you could mix and match specs (bigger screens etc) but it would make it much easier for the consumer to grab a decent build product just by knowing that a Type 2 machine is going to perform perfectly, then all they need to do is find one with the right things they want (portability, price etc) I think win8 will be great with touch interfaces. Surface is awesome, want one but don't have $499 and it's only available in some countries :rolleyes: People are raging about the front end UI, what I really like is the massive overhaul of the backend. Performance improvements in win8 are great. I really feel them, even in a VM. I'll nab a copy of win8 and put it on my 2nd HDD. When I'm ready to migrate I'll just shift the image to my primary drive and pull the files over. I am excited. Very nice OS |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1307187 | 2012-10-17 08:17:00 | I normally dive headlong into new MS OSes and try to find the good in them, but this time around I'm sticking to Win7 and office 2010 as long as possible. :2cents: That's because you've grown wiser, and have realised the values of hard-earned 'money'! :D |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1307188 | 2012-10-17 08:47:00 | The true test of how successful Windows 8 is will be to see how many people bother to pirate it. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1307189 | 2012-10-17 08:59:00 | I am happily able to report that no plummeting of my expectations has occurred, and that it is extremely unlikely to ever occur. I do continue to be mystified as to the age group targeted by the marketing department, and also await the Windows Eight (W.ait) labels proclaiming that it is "Designed For Norton".:badpc: |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1307190 | 2012-10-17 09:08:00 | Personally, I'm still waiting for the WOW to start, (and been waiting since 2006) www.youtube.com :D :p |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1307191 | 2012-10-17 10:19:00 | The 'START' has gone! :D | bk T (215) | ||
| 1307192 | 2012-10-17 18:30:00 | Takes a bit of getting used to no Start button, that might be too much for the Corporate Market. Windows 9 might have a Start button again I'm guessing and everyone will then skip to 9 from 7. However for home, you soon figure ways to by-pass Metro as often as possible. |
Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 1307193 | 2012-10-17 18:36:00 | Have played around with Win 8 cp (with Win 7 Start Menu )on the old comp,it's just sitting in the corner unloved Won't be making the jump till a significant reason appears to upgrade Is Microsoft going to allow third party addition of user friendly Start Menu's and not disable them in future updates? Most are wanting to jump aye because Win 7 is such a dog Metro Win 8 Bike against Win 7 tried and tested bike |
Lawrence (2987) | ||
| 1307194 | 2012-10-17 19:54:00 | See my post earlier. My Win8 was very fast booting up etc with an SSD when I first installed it but now, after only a few weeks, you would think I was running a normal HDD as it takes much longer to boot now. So like any other pc, Daym! |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1307195 | 2012-10-17 19:58:00 | Any program can be pinned to the start screen, ones that are used all the time can be made available, including networked locations ( servers, folders on servers etc) When you install a program no matter what it is, it will automatically load to the start screen. The ones you dont want can be removed and are then available under all apps ( right click the start screen - bottom right - All Apps) Theres no time difference to access the start menu compared to W7, with W7 you click start, all programs or they are in the list, with windows 8 press the windows key on the KB, and there they are. Personally I'm not yet decided fully, Windows 8 is running faster than 7 on this PC, but on my office PC running windows 7, I have Rocket Dock, where all the day to day programs are located. Windows 8 will work nice on Tablets and touch screens, been hounding my suppliers today for Lenovo or Asus Tablets running W8 with the intel CPU's which will have the full OS under the start screen like the desktops, not the RT version. He almost got convinced to send me the guff, but nooooooooooooooonot till next week when they are allowed to --Damn ;) Makes sense Wainui. trouble is convincing 130 workers (engineers to boot!). I battle with this with every os since Vista superseded (?) XP. |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
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