I don't know about you guys but as a tech ive been avoiding windows 8 at all costs. It reminds me wayyyy too much of vista a pish posh of code forced out into stores just to meet the build release schedule. it seems like it might be nice on a tablet or phone but not worth the price tag. aside from factory restores ive managed to avoid it so far. i am aware of the compatibility improvements and to see some truth to the clams that it runs the AMD a series more efficiently. however the user interface without a touch screen sucks . Ive seen a whole slew of AIO desktops with windows 8 and no touch screen? seems like a waste. I read that the sp for 8 is suppose to reintroduce the desktop as the main screen? I have a Toshiba in the shop now (laptop) that actually has an added app from Toshiba thats only purpose is to help you find the desktop what were they thinking ( Microsoft ) ? now that 8 has been out for awile and 8.1 is around the corner can anyone who has been using 8 tell me something good is this mess getting any better. is it time for me to start ditching 7 ? or should i continue to wait for 9? seems like every other windows flavor is decent. 3.1 was a revolution . 95 and 98se were both good millennium was crap 2000 was a workhorse. xp ...hmmmm after some work xp was great but at first it was the blue screen king of all time. ever heard of MSFS that was the filing system that Microsoft was intending on using for vista back in the longhorn days. they had to abandon it just to jet vista out. you can still find in on SOME of the RCs for longhorn. Longhorn was better than vista by far. if some of you dont know vista was pushed out with over 1000000 bugs to try and hold on to the 64Bit market the SuSe was stealing at alarming rates. if anyone like me jumped on the 64bit wagon as soon as it was available they know there was NO xp64 support from the developers community at the time NONE. when i got my first 64bit chip there was only one wifi card in that had xp64bit driver ....no joke...just one and video drivers were hit and miss for those of us who had the skills to strip inis from driver packs and force install them. vista did give us the 64bit support but us gamers had our own issues with vista. then there is 7 . the first time i saw that animated boot screen it made me smile. even as a new os it was pretty stable mostly because of the RC us techs had been playing with for over a year. that was one smart thing they did releasing it for free in beta by RC2 we had something great going.
now we get to 8.......hmmmmm I like android ... on my phone my tablet ..... but not on my desktop my 55 inch screen is not a touchscreen and im not sitting in a chair arms reach from it anyway. it seems like another grasp at straws to keep from loosing too many shares to the android market. which again ironically is a linux market. and why i would spend 6 or $700USD on a windows tablet when i can get a nexus for 200 .....well there's no argument there. so my point is has anyone seen a light at the end of the windows 8 tunnel. is there really improvement in the works or more hoopla ?
hahahahahahahahaha im watching the 8.1 release conference i have to say two things this dell desktop replacement is like a 25 in tablet. who the hells gonna carry that around the guy can barley hold it its a big as his arms are. and don't worry you guys they said 8.1 is completely secure from the back bone to the end user. my face is read from laghing with that statement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbUQ6CG6tc4