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[Asyn]

...the interface that looks like it was designed by Fisher Price.

+1

[bob3160]

I'm just curious, how many of you that are being so critical of Windows 8 are actually running windows 8  
(Not for a week but on a regular basis. )

[bob3160]

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[DavidR]

I'm just curious, how many of you that are being so critical of Windows 8 are actually running windows 8  
(Not for a week but on a regular basis. )

You don't have to run it to see the autocratic arrogance of MS despite all of the reviews that many don't like the interface formally known as 'Metro' to try and block what users want an option to completely bypass the metro interface. You only have to read the many reviews.

Personally I feel this has more to do with M$ trying to force people to use the interface in the hope that it might sell some phones because the interface is essentially the same. I would have no problem with this interface on mobile phones or tablets, a touch screen based interface is fine for those but for a desktop it is totally alien.

As I have said in the past I was really looking forward to the release of win8 (as I'm no real fan of win7), but as the reviews have come in I really see this as a disappointment. M$ are trying to turn this in to an Apple walled garden OS, getting your apps from M$ only.

[bob3160]

I rely on my own experience and as someone who has now used Windows 8
exclusively for almost 1 year, I'm looking forward to 8/15/2012 when I can finally download the official
Windows 8 Release from Technet.
I'm also not thrilled with the now outlawed term "Metro Style" but, that's only a very small part of Windows 8
and very easily bypassed for those like myself who have no use for the live tiles.
The rest of Windows 8 is a great improvement over Windows 7 and certainly worth the small investment needed
to convert. IMHO

[DavidR]

Sorry I can be just as stubborn as M$ if they aren't interested in listening to reviews and potential users, why should I pay them for something that in its current form I don't want.

I really would love to know their reasoning in not having the option for a user to completely bypass the 'Fisher Price' interface. I think that sounds better than Metro Style (as I feel there is little style about it), but that would no doubt get them in trouble too.

No matter how small an investment that might be in win8 and for me an upgrade is out of the question. So getting win8 is no small investment as it wouldn't just be the cost of the OS.

[Dch48]

So far it is not an improvement for the gaming community. The kinks may get ironed out of course but as it stands right now, AMD is telling people to expect lower performance in 3D games than we're currently getting with Win 7. This may be a driver issue that will get fixed but it is an issue now.  I will admit that the faster boot times, lower hard drive space usage, better speed in non-gaming applications and better recovery options are attractive features but I will still be staying with Win 7. It does everything XP does and a lot more. Everything that is common to XP and 7, Win 7 does faster and better and only requires a short adjustment period for XP users, even less for Vista users.   I have reached the point where I'm not saying never for Win 8 but for right now, I'll pass.

I do want to see IE 10 though.

[Asyn]

I'm just curious, how many of you that are being so critical of Windows 8 are actually running windows 8  
(Not for a week but on a regular basis. )

Tested it on two of my own machines (testing period: 3-4 weeks) and saw/run it on 4 other systems.
While speed and stability are ok, as some others here, I've a big problem with the interface formerly known as Metro...

[bob3160]

Add Secret “Purge Memory” Button in Google Chrome’s Task Manager


(As you can see, I've got mine.  )

[polonus]

Hi folks,

Good to read there, that the quys from peerblock are still maintaining their software to  block communication with advertising or spyware oriented servers, computers monitoring your p2p activities, computers which have been "hacked", even entire countries!
See: http://www.peerblock.com/
So they are still at it after a year of silence,

polonus

[bob3160]

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[bob3160]

Installing Windows 8 on your old PC could turn it into Greased Lightning

It's nice to know that I'm not the only one with that belief and experience.

[Dch48]

Yes Bob but if you read the article, he didn't test it with old enough machines. Machines that came with Vista pre-installed are not that old and anything is faster than Vista. Let something like my 2005 HP laptop with a Turion 64 single core and 2 gigs of DDR, not DDR2 but DDR, Ram that was designed for XP get tested. I bet it won't be so "greased".

[DavidR]

When saying it can be run on old systems and supposedly speed them up - Speed isn't the only thing, other considerations have to be software on said old system.

With no way to do an update install without it effectively being a destructive update, e.g. no retention of the installed software. The user will have to reinstall that if it would even run on win8, will it run in compatibility mode, does the standard win8 even have compatibility mode (without have to have purchased a certain win8 version) and if so at what OS level.

So there is the possibility that some old software may not run on win8, are they to then purchase it again or another that does work on win8, these are the other expenses that I have mentioned before, it isn't just the cost of the win8 OS (reasonable or otherwise).

[bob3160]

does the standard win8 even have compatibility mode

Right Click on any program> select properties:



Select Compatibility:



Now you can either run the troubleshooter or select to run in a previous version of Windows.
This is also where you select to run a program with Admin. privileges.