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Old 09-12-2012, 11:39 AM   #11 (permalink)
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They've already fucked with the Xbox layout to start the transition to this planned unified OS and it's more awkward and clunky than ever. If they really want to unify their products, why not work toward doing it with something everybody uses Windows for — desktops. The "apps" thing is a total bandwagon move, social media integration is just stupid for Microsoft's current clientele (businesses), and the whole thing looks like the old "Media Center" program from XP.
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Old 09-17-2012, 10:03 PM   #12 (permalink)
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I got Win 8.

I pretty much love it. Start screen reminds me alot of my Windows Phone, which is pretty sick.
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Old 09-19-2012, 05:01 PM   #13 (permalink)
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We have a Win8 box at work. NO ONE has touched it yet. No one wants to. Why the hell would anyone want to put a touch based tablet OS on a desktop?

This is going to bomb harder than Windows ME.
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Old 09-26-2012, 04:08 PM   #14 (permalink)
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"If it isn't broke, don't fix it." It might be a cliche but the necessity to update and look more futuristic is ridiculous. The fact that they are going with the xbox look and format is a joke, example (xbox youtube app) Get tae f*ck... little drunk.
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Old 09-26-2012, 11:09 PM   #15 (permalink)
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all you have to do is click the "desktop" button for the standard desktop to pop up i believe
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Old 09-29-2012, 08:27 AM   #16 (permalink)
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all you have to do is click the "desktop" button for the standard desktop to pop up i believe
It might look like the standard desktop but it doesn't work like a standard desktop.
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Old 04-09-2013, 01:52 AM   #17 (permalink)
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i just got a new computer today. aside from the fact that i'm totally blown away by the specs that come with an $800 desktop, it came with windows 8. i asked the tech dude if going to 7 was an option and he said it's a huge, expensive pain in the ass and half the time it doesn't work, cuz of drivers conflicts or something. so i've been dicking around with windows 8 all day. it's interesting. it's weird. it's very clean. you can customize the sh*t out of it. no noticeable glitches so far. like sparky said, the desktop accessed by a button on the start screen, and it works pretty much like a standard desktop, sans the start button. that being said, the start button is a pretty f*cking useful button. it's certainly possible to customize your way around that though.

i can't for the life of me figure out why they would go from having all that useful stuff appear from one convenient corner of the screen to making it so you can only access that list of stuff by putting your pointer in a corner to make a magic box appear within which is a button which will make what would normally show up in that one corner to take up your whole screen (got a 27 incher today ), and still make it so you have to right click to make another magic button appear, upon hitting which will bring the whole start menu up instead of just the initial half that comes from hitting the first magic button.

everything sounds so much worse when said in a giant run-on sentence. i'll get used to it out of laziness, but i would much prefer 7 to this bubble-gum show. it is fast though, i gotta give it that.
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Old 04-09-2013, 02:36 AM   #18 (permalink)
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I'm pretty good with computers in general and I absolutely hated it. It's seriously horrible.


I felt it was more complex to use than necessary and that the whole program was a long way for a shortcut.
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Old 04-09-2013, 09:07 AM   #19 (permalink)
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The Microsoft pattern is sh*tty OS (ME, Vista, 8) is followed by fixed OS (XP, 7, ??). Let's hope that fix is forthcoming. I stayed on 7 myself. I never did own a Vista device, went straight from XP to 7...
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Old 04-09-2013, 09:22 AM   #20 (permalink)
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The new Win8 OS is a product of .NET structuring and the Touchscreen capabilities it offers, and of course MS is gonna push it through even though it's not fully developed, based on their market research, so get used to it ASAP... or go Unix.
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