How-To Geek

Hi everyone,

I'm doing a research report for my A+ class and I'd just like some input on your opinions of Windows 8 so far.
-Do you like the appearance and how it operates?
-Will you buy the full version?
-Do you feel it is an easy transition from your previous OS (and was OS did you switch from)?
-Would you recomend Winows 8 to your friends and clients?
-What improvements do you feel Windows 8 needs most?
-share anything else you feel is relevant to the topic.

Thank you for your time and any information you would like to share.
Lisa

HI Tombaugh,

A friend of mine installed Winsows 8 once, but unfortunately she didn't partition it so it wiped out all of the menory on her computer as well as the old os and alot of the programs and features on it didn't work properly either . She finally got Windows 7 back on her comuter, but all her programs and files were GONE and she could'nt get them back from carbonite either. To put it one way I think that Windows 8 needs ALOT more work.

This makes Windows 8 Acceptable for Conventional Work Place Environments.
http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ 3.5.0
Mar 31st, 2012 - Version 3.5.0 is released. It adds support for Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Without This Change, the Windows 8 O/S is only good for Mobile Platform Users as it stands now.

Rick P.

http://blogs.computerworld.com....._reviewers

http://blogs.computerworld.com.....oft_listen

@whs,

Remember I'm the one that thought we should have a Windows 8 O/S Category and it was done.

As for Classic Shell, I have ALWAYS used the program because of the "Fly Out" menu system.

As for Windows 8, so far I have found it Awkward to use on the dining room table with a mouse & 24 inch Display until Classic Shell was updated.

I don't have a Tablet Touchscreen PC so really can't evaluate the Win8 O/S as MS wanted us to.

Rick P.

I have no touch screen. Just a 22" desktop monitor and a 15" laptop where I run it from the stick. On the desktop I run it in Virtual Box where it boots in 8 seconds. From the stick it boots in 38 seconds (from event 100 in event viewer).

The performance I compare to Windows 7. I still have a couple of Vistas, but they are on older sytems. All my Vistas and Windows 7 run on SSDs.

Don't let anybody tell you stories. Windows 8 is a great system. I am running it since September 2011 and I am completely comfortable with it. We have to consider that these are not final versions. So some applications do not yet run very well. But that will be fixed. They are not going to ship defunct applications.

This is a typical example how a moron would operate:

""To open the Metro start page, for instance, you drag your pointer to the lower left corner of your screen. A thumbnail image of the start page pops out. My instinct, honed by thousands of Flash interfaces on the Web, is to move my pointer into the popup and click. But in Windows 8, If you do that, you actually click whatever icon beneath the popup window your pointer happens to be resting on. In Windows 8, you have to keep your pointer off screen while you click. This change is easy to learn intellectually, but harder to make instinctual, given the years of conditioning we've had to do the opposite.""

A clever operator pushes the Start (WIN) button.

From my previous post:

What is it going to take to get MS to understand that there are a lot of us who want just a plain old operating system. No games, no media center, no built-in browser or e-mail, no geegaw, just a plain old operating system. We really are smart enough to install the stuff we need. And NO, we don't want to go to MAC.

It strikes me that it would be a fairly easy thing to do (as outsiders are already doing, IE XP Lite, from the past). It's not like they don't make a pile of other versions anyways? It seems like all I do is monkey around with crap I don't need or want, trying to get a working professional operating system. Just install and give me a black screen with a taskbar, and I'd be ready to go.

Now, W8. I had it on a VM for a couple of weeks and it SUCKS!!! Geez, what is going on? Are 16 YO kids writing this shit or what??? Look, I'm 55, I don't use smart phones, tablet, PS, Fackbook, or any other of the kiddie crap they have forced on us.

I WANT A SIMPLE PROFESSIONAL OPERATING SYSTEM. MANY OTHERS WHO ARE ON A COMPUTER ALL DAY DO TOO! ARE YOU LISTENING MICROSOFT??

The above is really what 75% of users think, so.....who is the moron here? I think it's the sheople that accept this piss-poor product without comment.

Rick, you make me laugh...................

Well, I guess an old man like you has all the time in the world to screw with totally useless stuff. I, however, don't. WORK. I do work all day on my computer and I give less than a damn about all the gee-gaw and crap. And EVERYONE I talk to (not scientific, mind you) hates it. Most IT pros hate it as well.

Also, progress is a forward movement. Windows 8 is backward, confusing, and setup for tablet use. I have a desktop computer with a mouse and a keyboard. It takes double the clicks to open programs and I don't have the time to waste.

I want what I stated above. A black screen with a task bar. I can handle the rest.

I'm done.

PS: Screw Linux!