Next it doesn’t seem to like to allow running emulation software that will change the clock-speed my processor is reporting to a program. It also doesn’t want to play nice with drivers that should be fine since they ran on 7 which is supposedly the same base kernel. Next it doesn’t like my old MS software. I like office 95, everyone can read my .doc output why can’t I run it on windows 8? Oh yeah because MS wants me to upgrade from code that runs just fine to their new code, that I have to pay for again. Why?

I also don’t like that it seems to have a weird preference for opening multiple instances of my messengers in different forms for desktop and metro. Please stop that MS and stop that the messages appear with up to 20 seconds lag between different version.

You start an app and it takes over the whole screen … do i really need a 17inch BING page? You can’t really resize the screen to the size you want. I need to have several windows open at one time with each one being a different size. Maybe after more days of searching the internet an answer will come.

Luckily there is a Desktop of sorts. It seems, from only using it a couple of days, that it was an add on … they probably heard so many complaints that they just threw it in. I have yet to find how to log into Win8 directly to the desktop .. bypassing the START UI.

But I get it … this was developed for the phone crowd. Like those vids you see of someone so intent on their phone, probably posting to twitter or facebook they are walking down the street, that they trip over some big obstacle. I guess that is where we are heading .. the need for lots of visual input .. without any control.

That’s not the case with the rapidly changing tech landscape. Poor analogy. Here there’s cut-throat competition. PC market share has been steadily falling every quarter ever since the iPad was released in 2010. PC makers have seen business collapsing. HP even thought about spinning off its PC division. Why is that? All this happened when the excellent Windows 7 was powering PCs. Win 7 couldn’t stop the slide. So Microsoft had to think differently and re-imagine their OS to stay relevant in this mobile-dominated world. The result is Win 8 that not only looks and works the same across many devices, but also has faster boot ups etc, features previously attributed only to mobile devices.

And not all businesses are turning their backs on Win 8. Read this:

http://www.geek.com/articles/news/windows-8-performance-entices-cto-to-upgrade-4000-pcs-2012115/

This is the reason power management tools on Operating Systems such as Android have become popular.

Task Manager doesn’t need over 9000 bells and whistles.

True for Apple. Not so true for MS.

It would be a waste of at least tens of millions of dollars in UI research and development if the O/S was not a step forward. Not that that’s not possible but highly unlikely. Essentially Human Psychology says we are all adverse to change and prefer the today to be the exact same as the previous day in our lives.

I’m a quick learner and a major multi-tasker. I read earlier reviews slamming the O.S but this review seems unbiased and level-headed. I would not be looking forward to give Microsoft my money though except for the fact I get the employee discount through my sister.

Does the mail app even have a unified view which Outlook has been sorely missing yet is a basic (and highly productive) feature in other programs like Thunderbird? This would be one thing that would indicate to me if they were truly on the ball.

I’m moving to Windows 8. Under the hood, it’s a more advanced operating system, which is important to me. A neat example is chkdsk in Windows 8 (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/09/redesigning-chkdsk-and-the-new-ntfs-health-model.aspx). The cliffnotes is that the run-time is now proportional to the number of errors rather than the number of files.

The task manager happens to be something a lot of people use, but it’s really just the beginning of the new analysis, diagnosis, and troubleshooting tools built into Windows 8. These things are important–they provide insight into the system that increases stability of the OS over time. Stability is important to me.

Some of your points are a little misinformed. For example, there’s no time when you will need to manually disable the W8 AV so you can install a new AV. The system easily and automatically hands control over to the new software.

And one other thing: I think Microsoft should be commended for putting in features that don’t require you to installed 3rd party software. I’m not a typical user–I put together lots of new systems. So to me, installing a bunch of 3rd party software every time I set up a new system is a nuisance. I’d rather have something that works as designed.

I like Windows 7. I like Windows 8. My experience has been positive, partly because I’ve been willing to re-train myself how to do a few things. W8 isn’t a flawless OS, but it’s a major upgrade IMO.

Dan

It does boot faster and is a bit snappier than windows 7 but i have an ssd drive and windows 7 runs perfectly fine. I found nothing in the metro interface that is that great, and once the gimmick of the news/travel/people apps wears off i am left using it mostly in the desktop mode so i found no real reason to keep windows 8,Just my opinion

http://mynokiablog.com/2012/10/24/wp8-drag-drop-file-storage-detailed/

Also, 2 Control Panels (one in ‘Metro’ and another in traditional desktop. 2 copies of Internet Explorer, etc, etc.

Kudos for their bold and ambitious plans (sincerely), but this is going to be a challenge to keep from turning into a fill-fledged revolt that would dwarf Vista.

Case in point – I installed the latest consumer preview on our home computer. My wife gave it two hours before she screamed at me to uninstall it :-(