Windows Versions
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D4rkDragon
Lemon Dragon
Towns Folk
I planing to upgrade to Windows 8 just for optimization.
I will install some software to keep what I love from Win 7: the taskbar
Windows 8.x isn't that bad in my opinion. Sure that the Metro interface sucks hard for regular PC users, but believe me, it becomes easier to use after a while.
The only other thing that sucks on Windows 8.x is that some games aren't optimized for it, and when you contact the support of the game, the only thing they find to tell you is "Have you updated your drivers ? Else, contact Windows's Customer Support service." (This is a true example of what happened to me a while ago). What a bunch of lazy people.
sodajet
Work-life balance is hard
Towns Folk
From my experience Windows 7 is the best modern operating system while XP is the best legacy one. Windows 8 doesn't bring any improvements to Win 7 and has a terrible interface. However, you can alleviate most of these issues by installing software such as Classic Shell for a start menu and disabling the Metro scheme altogether. I've actually grown to like this setup because Windows 8 has great boot times (600 GB of data on disk but only 5 seconds to boot) while Win 7 could take an excruciatingly long time to boot up.
Alex
#1 Communist
Towns Folk
All this hate about Windows 8, but with a touch-screen monitor, that OS would rule over all the others. Even without, it's not as bad as people make it out to be. Oh, what? You have to click a few more times to shut down? 8.1
In Windows 7's defense, my Windows 7 Ultimate PC boots in about 10 seconds.
sodajet
Work-life balance is hard
Towns Folk
I think most people feel that Windows is meant to be for a traditional PC user. People don't like the fact that it is designed around touchscreen users (of which there are few) when the majority of Windows users use mouse and keyboard. If Microsoft really wanted to implement the Metro interface, then they should have made two separate operating systems- one for touch devices and one for traditional PCs.
sodajet
Work-life balance is hard
Towns Folk
Well, Windows is meant to be iterative and Microsoft focuses its resources on only on operating system at a time. Windows 7 is now in the past. It is definitely not outdated and continues to get support from Microsoft, but Windows 8 is where all the development work is happening. In addition, nearly every proprietary PC comes pre-installed with Windows 8. So, most people will have Windows 8, don't like it, but don't want to pay for a Windows 7 license. Microsoft should have made sure that the successor to Windows 7 doesn't alienate its customers like it has done now.
