buickanddeere
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When support for Micro Crap XP ends. This computer gets tossed and replaced with a 13" Macbook.
Anyone use Windows 8?
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Reading this thread has become quite entertaining - lol.
Listen, Win 8 is different. It was meant to be. There is a learning curve - so learn. This stuff is not rocket science but you may have to spend a few hours to get the basics and you will continue to discover useful things as you move along. Some have said it performed poorly - not so. It runs great. This goes back to my earlier post of using the proper hardware. A system can never be too fast but it can easily be too slow. In short - buy power.
I preferred the traditional interface of Win 7 and, yes, Win 8 will remain quirky until all the apps are designed to run in Metro. But, did you quit using phones when they went to touch-tone? Quit watching TV when it required a cable box or a dish?
Technology will continue to evolve and advance - always has, always will. Be grateful for geniuses that make our life so much easier than only a handful of years before us. What if doctors said - "I aint gonna use that new fangled MRI thingamagiggy!" Heck, I even use a Raven Cruizer GPS just to drag a sprayer in a straight line across the pastures. Guess what ... I had to learn how to use it.
Oh well, just take this as an encouragement to keep your minds active instead of becoming the old codger that can't run his television without help. I'm certainly no fan of Micro$oft but, so far, the aggravation has not been so much that I wanted buy into so proprietary as Apple.
Happy Computing!
Listen, Win 8 is different. It was meant to be. There is a learning curve - so learn. This stuff is not rocket science but you may have to spend a few hours to get the basics and you will continue to discover useful things as you move along. Some have said it performed poorly - not so. It runs great. This goes back to my earlier post of using the proper hardware. A system can never be too fast but it can easily be too slow. In short - buy power.
I preferred the traditional interface of Win 7 and, yes, Win 8 will remain quirky until all the apps are designed to run in Metro. But, did you quit using phones when they went to touch-tone? Quit watching TV when it required a cable box or a dish?
Technology will continue to evolve and advance - always has, always will. Be grateful for geniuses that make our life so much easier than only a handful of years before us. What if doctors said - "I aint gonna use that new fangled MRI thingamagiggy!" Heck, I even use a Raven Cruizer GPS just to drag a sprayer in a straight line across the pastures. Guess what ... I had to learn how to use it.
Oh well, just take this as an encouragement to keep your minds active instead of becoming the old codger that can't run his television without help. I'm certainly no fan of Micro$oft but, so far, the aggravation has not been so much that I wanted buy into so proprietary as Apple.
Happy Computing!
Alan L.
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Why would anyone want to spend all day extending an arm to the screen when you can rest your arm on the desk and do everything with a mouse?
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That is my biggest issue with Win8. I have a touchscreen on my laptop, it is far more comfortable, ergonomic and faster to use my trackball or mouse (also, its harder for my kids to accidentally click things with a touchpad, mouse or trackball). My FIL has a tablet and I can see using metro for that form factor device, but (IMO) for a desktop or non-tablet style laptop, Metro is a huge step backward from a usability standpoint.
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I tried 8 for a while as I am always dabbling. I now use a Macbook Pro after having DOS and windows machines forever... and use Parallels software to run windows if I need to. Been a Windows guy from the start but I uninstalled 8... just didn't like it. Back to using 7. My put is no reason to upgrade. Not sure I will buy another Windows OS until I have to. My put is Microsoft was searching for something radical to keep up with Apple. My :2cents:
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Not Apple, Android (Google)
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I just built a desktop machine two weeks ago. MicroCenter still had Win7 OEM in stock (thank goodness!!) I don't pirate software...but to keep me from Win8....I would have been tempted had I not been able to find Win7.
I guess that explains my opinion of Win8 !!!
I guess that explains my opinion of Win8 !!!
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Change for the sake of change is not an improvement. I have seen nothing in Win8 that makes me want to upgrade and spend the money and time in learning how to do something that I know in XP. I have even set up a Linux box to play with. May go to that operating system if MS continues to mess around. I worked in computing field and was always in change mode but we normally changed to improve not for the sake of change. We built on what we had and made improvements and enhancements. We did not though out everything and start over until we had a business reason to do so. When we did start over we attempted to keep the user interface the same.
To me MS is blowing a big advantage of windows Vs Mac by keeping compatibility with older software where as Mac required new hardware to run almost every new operating system.
To me MS is blowing a big advantage of windows Vs Mac by keeping compatibility with older software where as Mac required new hardware to run almost every new operating system.
farmgirl19
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Reading this thread has become quite entertaining - lol.
Listen, Win 8 is different. It was meant to be. There is a learning curve - so learn.
I preferred the traditional interface of Win 7 and, yes, Win 8 will remain quirky until all the apps are designed to run in Metro. But, did you quit using phones when they went to touch-tone? Quit watching TV when it required a cable box or a dish?
Happy Computing!
OK, now I know many of you will find this amusing, but my cell phone is over 10 years old. It still makes the calls, lets folks leave messages, and lets me retrieve those messages from voicemail. I've seen no need to "upgrade" to a phone that has features that I would not use. I do not text or surf the web, while driving, and spend a lot of my time on the road. For internet, I am more comfortable with a laptop, or even a desktop.
And yes, when TV went digital, and I had to have a converter box, or a new TV, I removed the TV, and honestly, I have not missed it. I know, I am in the minority here, but change for the sake of just getting the "latest", is a bit silly, for some of us. :2cents: