Anyone use Windows 8?

[Jim Shooz]

we bought a new laptop recently with win 8, and i'm not a fan so far. i don't use it like SO does,
but it's confusing going between modes to get to the app she wants to use.
and the computer is not touch screen, so , the touchpad scroll is backwards!
rolls up when i motion to move down, ok if your used to it i guess.

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Somewhere in the settings you can change that to down instead of up. I stumbled across it sometime/somewhere in the 6 months it took me to "accept" 8.



Friends don't let good friends use Windows 8.

 

[riptides]

How's the mifi work? Is it a separate device you have to carry around besides a cell phone and surface? I'm ignorant so please pardon the basic questions.

It's an LTE/EVDO/WiFi hotspot. Is very small. Has external antenna ability. Perfect for the mobile user who needs to support a lot of devices and needs a network in a hurry. Has pretty good battery life, too.

 

[Tollster]

I've read a little about Windows 8, but can't get past the technical jargon. Can someone explain how it is different from windows 7? I read where it is a touch-screen system like they have on telephones and laptops? Pardon my ignorance, I don't have a phone, can't even answer my wife's without screwing things up. Thanks in advance;

Dennis. P.S. Windows isn't a free download, is it? You have to pay for it as an upgrade?

If I had to do it all over again, I would have never gotten windows 8 and purchased windows 7 instead! Office 2003 is not compatible, there are many strange things that are not carried over from any of the previous programs. It takes 3-4 mouse movements and clicks just to shut it off. And everything is tied to a "cloud" including your email, so even if you clean up your inbox, it all stays on your server, and over runs can get expensive. It also difficult to view pictures as you have to open and close windows after ever images, rather than just click an arrow as in the past.. and believe me.. the list goes on and on! Having used windows since windows 95, I believe Apple with be my next, and I personally can not stand apple heads.. its that bad, at least to me!

 

[DB Pilot]

I bought a HP Pavillion 23 All in one PC. It came with windows 8. Have been using it for about a year now. I need a password for everything and then they don't work. Played daily games for a while and then the only password for it no longer worked. Email had to download special programs for it to work plus had to call the help line to get it working. Windows 8 is a joke. :thumbdown: I get done what I need to get done but, stop promising me stuff that doesn't work.

 

[RobertN]

mv -r * /dev/null

Command line is ... WIN key + R

 

[RobertN]

I kinda liked Solaris when I was using a Sparc-20 some years back. Started on a Vax 11-780 with VMS.

I mess with Win8 a lot at work for test systems. Even getting used to it, I am not impressed. It is very touch oriented; do not like it without touch. Even with touch, meh...

Don't laugh, but I thought DOS was easier than WIN!

 

[flyerdan]

I'm still running XP as it seems to be one of the best things they came out with. Kim Komando says on her radio show that when XP isn't supported anymore next year all of us holdouts will have to buy new boxes. Makes it sound like pirates will come right out of the screen and rape our faces and steal everything in the house. I wonder at how dire the vulnerability will be with current firewall and antivirus running. Also I wonder if MS might have thrown a few sabotage bugs in to help us along, as I sometimes have some unresponsive script hangups that pretty much render things unusable until a reboot.
If I have to, I'll get a Win7 box off ubid, but I hate the thought. Took ten years to get this one where I like it.

 

[crash325]

I started playing with these things back in the DOS days. About the time I learned DOS, Windows came along,. It worked OK but had problems. There was a competitive program called (I Think) Nat Geo that was better, but MS pushed them off the market. As they did with the internet competitor, Can't think of the name at the moment. (Net Scape?)

Window's 3.11 was the best Window's program they ever made. Never crashed and was hard to overload. I had a retail business, in the front window was a 19 inch TV/Monitor that ran a slide show, played music & talked. While it was running I could also run word processor & Photo Shop + print & scan. All with a 486 processor & 4 megs of ram. If they had upgraded it to the 64 bit processor it would still be great.

Did I mention that I hate Uncle Billy & MS.:thumbdown::thumbdown::thumbdown:

 

[Egbert]

I believe you are speaking of GeoWorks. Netscape morphed into Mozilla and probably the closest/best browser today is Firefox.

Micro$oft has bought out and killed almost every serious competitor that came along. Often times this took superior software off the market.

 

[Midniteoyl]

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