Windows 8

Windows 8

If you want to get the Windows 8 consumer preview, you can do so here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-8/consumer-preview

I think Windows 8 sucks since they are tossing the users back and forth between the metro interface and the normal desktop.

They have also remove the start button and redesigned the start menu.

In a daring move, Microsoft has decided to ditch the Start Menu in Windows 8, the next version of Windows operating system. The Chinese-language site PCBeta hinted at the Start button's demise over the weekend with some supposed Windows 8 beta screenshots, and The Verge confirmed the change with "sources close to Microsoft's Windows 8 development."





For old time's sake, here's the Start Menu in Windows 7:


The Start Button is one Microsoft's strongest trademarks of Windows with all versions of Windows, starting from Windows 95, featuring the Start Menu.


Link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VPFKnBYOSI

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You'll find not a lot really cares about the latest Windows release here. But this does belong in the software forum, after all...

Originally posted by ensbb3:

You'll find not a lot really cares about the latest Windows release here. But this does belong in the software forum, after all...

But this is the forum to discuss and debate things. Also, the software forum seen barren.

Thanks for starting this thread! It allows me to spew some bile and relive pressure.
The idea that "new version of this software is cool, new, sweet, new, pretty, new, shiny, and therefore desirable" is
Microsoft is the worst. Most other software companies are bad in the same way, but M$ are the worst of those type of assholes (maybe only because they're the biggest assholes).

Proof format:
Thesis: Upgrades Suck
"Upgrade" in software usually means that what you have now quits working.
When something is reduced in functionality it is referred to as "downgraded".
When something quits working, that "sucks" because it is a reduction in functionality.
therefore, "upgrade" is a "downgrade" and
therefore "sucks".
Q.E.D.

Grrrrrrrrrrr.

I'm holding out until Windows 69. I hear it's going to r0x0rz.

It poses a problem for me. I'm still using XP sp3, Media Edition. The problems-- there are at least two-- are that with the release of Win8, we can expect Microsoft support for XP to disappear. The other problem is that when I get ready to replace this, the only MS OS on the market will be Win8. That's a problem because every other MS offering to date has been a turkey that shouldn't have been released onto test-bed computers, let alone released to the public. Example below:

1. Win98SE/Win2000-- Fairly decent, depending on what you wanted to do you either got Win98 if you were a gamer or you got Win2000 if you were in business, though Win98 would work well enough in business too, it just wasn't secure.

2. Windows ME-- A turkey. My experience is that it was a crashing nightmare. It was horrible. I couldn't recommend it to my enemy.

3. WinXP.. I'm using it now, if that tells you anything. When it came out, and HP said they would support upgrading their unit from ME to XP, I did it and never looked back.

4. Windows Vista-- Reports are less than stellar. WinME second verse same as the first.

5. Windows 7-- Everything I've seen suggests this is a good one, people seem to be happy enough with it.

Now we come to Windows 8, and if past Microsoft performance is any indication I expect no end of trouble with it. Now might be as good a time as any to switch to one of the Linux offerings. The concept of a system that just works seems to have completely gotten past Microsoft.

Not that struck on the look of Windows 8 and much prefer the usual screens. As for Linux, I experimented with it on a spare laptop and was very surrpised at the ease and simplicity of it all. Not what I expected. There is even a Windows style Linux called Zorin OS and seen it in action. For those used to MS they will find it a doddle. The only probs with Linux is when you want to play something that is a Windows item but there agin Linux has a programme calle Wine' that gives you a help. I even gave the teenage daughter of a friend the laptop to try and wondered how she would contend with Linux as at school it of course all MS. She had it under her wing within 5 minutes and worked on the laptop with no problems.

God bless the Apple IIe!

Whatever toy keeps you happy. I'll play with my trains.

Give me a beer!

Microsoft has gone Intel now, if you know what "tick-tock" strategy means, then good for you, if not, then search it. Vista was "tick", 7 was "tock" and now 8 is "tick". Windows 9 will be a much more polished and functional version of 8, and people will love it. I'm 99,95% certain. I've been following IT trends far longer than is healthy.

Ban computers is my suggestion.
No one needs computers for nothing. Computer's culture is sucking people's blood and soul.
Computers represents another tax that we have to pay for making bill gates and the such the richest men in the world. And people pays it in two ways, with money and with their own unemployment.

Originally posted by Belfrager:

No one needs computers for nothing.

Some not-people don't not need them never.

Originally posted by johnnysaucepn:

Originally posted by Belfrager:

No one needs computers for nothing.

Some not-people don't not need them never.

Ahh continental philosophy versus the analytic philosophy...

Must admit Jaybro have always been curious about Apples. Had a chat with a man using an Apple laptop on a local train.

Apple? I'm not pleased with them right now. I got an Apple update notification that there was an update to iTunes. In addition to updating iTunes, downloaded Safari, after I uninstalled it Yeah, it was partially my fault for not paying enough attention to what it was doing, even so...

Originally posted by Sanguinemoon:

Apple? I'm not pleased with them right now. I got an Apple update notification that there was an update to iTunes. In addition to updating iTunes, downloaded Safari, after I uninstalled it Yeah, it was partially my fault for not paying enough attention to what it was doing, even so...

They're still doing that? The same thing happened to me about four years ago, except the other way around. I uninstalled both and flipped Apple the bird.

Originally posted by Sanguinemoon:

Apple? I'm not pleased with them right now. I got an Apple update notification that there was an update to iTunes. In addition to updating iTunes, downloaded Safari, after I uninstalled it Yeah, it was partially my fault for not paying enough attention to what it was doing, even so...

Apple is a hypocrite. They are pushing so much for HTML5 but their website use QuickTime, a proprietary app. I keep hiding iTunes, Safari, iCloud control Panel (ignore selected updates), but everytime a new version comes out, it offers them to be downloaded.