Has Microsoft stumbled?
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Tommy Vercetti
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Combined OS.X is beating Windows 8 in adaptation rate. I personally think tablets are a fad. Just like netbooks. A tablet can never beat a good PC. You have more room in a PC to make it more powerful.
No it's not, combined OS X has gone from 7% a year ago to still 7%, Windows 8 has gone from 0% to 5%.
Tommy Vercetti
The Don
Still has more marketshare. Windows 7 already had OS X beat by this point after its launch.
Tommy Vercetti
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OSX and iOS are two different systems. This is the home computer market I am talking about. I don't care about tablets personally.
Tommy Vercetti
The Don
People just do not want Metro on there PCs. It has yet to surpass OSX or VISTA. Its closing in on a year since the initial release last August and this is still the case. Face it Windows 8 is a failure in marketshare. I doubt 8.1 will do much to help the marketshare for Windows 8. People want there start menu back. I am NOT alone.
I have some excellent news for you: Metro is completely optional!
Tommy Vercetti
The Don
The start screen is garbage and it is Metro.
What's the problem with the start screen?
And have I mentioned you don't have to use any Metro programs? There are lots of garbage desktop programs too.
You and all the others who whine about the Start screen are a VERY vocal minority. I also have trouble taking your criticism of Windows 8 seriously since you have stated in this very thread that you have not even used Windows 8. So how can you make any kind of informed statement about the quality of Windows 8 when you are only going off of what a very vocal minority of users are saying about it?
Windows 8.1 is a great OS. It's rock solid stable, and you just have to get one 3rd party app to restore your start button and disable all those stupid corner hot key areas for the metro infiltration on the desktop (charm corners or whatever stupid name they're called.) I boot straight to desktop now and never see metro junk.
The expanded right-click does add a few nice tidbits, but it is still nothing compared to a full fledged start menu with access to the programs list. Is it a good choice for you? Clearly not. Is it for me? Yes, absolutely, especially since the so-called start button that MS put in 8.1 was basically a troll against all of us who resented them removing it to begin with as it isn't a true start button that MS conditioned us to use since 1995.
I would think you would support this sort of thing. It gives users choice. I use Win 8, love it, and still retain my start button and just get to ignore all of the irrelevant stuff that should have never been put into the desktop version of the OS to being with.
I would think you would support this sort of thing. It gives users choice. I use Win 8, love it, and still retain my start button and just get to ignore all of the irrelevant stuff that should have never been put into the desktop version of the OS to being with.
Mise
isle of lucy
Whenever I get a new system (e.g. phone, computer OS, game, spreadsheet software, whatever) I always try to use it the way the designers intended first of all, and only after like a few weeks or whatever go and customise it. I did that with Windows 7 and was instantly won over by pinning stuff to the task bar. I thought it was weird and wrong when I read about it, but when I started using it OH MY GOD it's so amazing.
Well, I still think the default implementation is kind of broken because the window previews take so long to pop up.
If you get rid of the delay, window previews on mouse-over becomes one of the best features of Windows and is something I miss whenever I'm using a different OS.
If you get rid of the delay, window previews on mouse-over becomes one of the best features of Windows and is something I miss whenever I'm using a different OS.
I like pinning things to the taskbar with W7, because at work I don't need to use that many programs (of course), but at home on XP, I'd be lost without my carefully-ordered Start/All Programs menus.
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