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He must be holding it wrong...
Worst verison of Windows?
- Thread starter Tommy Vercetti
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He must be holding it wrong...
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
Windows 8, nothing more than trying to force a mobile GUI onto a desktop platform.
Tommy Vercetti
The Don
My thoughts exactly. That is why I hate Windows 8. Hopefully Microsoft will realize this is a failure and bring back the old desktop and start menu system for PCs and scrap the Metro UI.
Zack
99% hot gas
You can skip straight to the desktop, you can bring back the start menu. I've said this a million times, but you keep ignoring it.
You hate Windows 8 because it has optional features that you don't like?
Again, I ask, when's the last time Microsoft ever backpedalled on anything?
Ribbon UI? Nope, still here 6 years later?
XP? Nope, went on to me the most successful consumer OS of all time?
Vista? Nope, pushed ahead with Win7 which was basically the same thing?
Tommy Vercetti
The Don
Microsoft Bob and Windows ME come to mind. The Metro UI is just as bad an idea as Microsoft Bob was.
Bob clearly had no future and was unrelated to any of their existing products, they're not going to discontinue Windows.
They didn't backpedal on ME, XP was already half-way done when ME was released, it was simply a stopgap for 9x users.
Tommy Vercetti
The Don
Every attempt to change the basic desktop interface has failed. For people who don't like the Metro UI, history is on our side.
Zack
99% hot gas
YOU DON'T HAVE ANY NEED TO USE THE METRO UI, for the millionth goddamn time
Microsoft has never backpedaled on any major new Windows feature.
For people who don't like the Metro UI, reality is on their side since they don't have to use the Metro UI in Windows 8.
Unfortunately, you don't appear to be on reality's side.
I'm pretty sure he's mixing up Windows RT and Windows 8.
Tommy Vercetti
The Don
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/windows_8_sp1_what_we_hope_see451
http://www.legitreviews.com/news/14317/
Maximum PC called The Windows 8 interface a "complete disaster". A lot of people don't like it. That is not going to change.
http://www.legitreviews.com/news/14317/
Maximum PC called The Windows 8 interface a "complete disaster". A lot of people don't like it. That is not going to change.
Tommy Vercetti
The Don
I HAVE pointed out problems! The UI SUCKS. That simple.
aimeeandbeatles
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There is already a Windows 8 thread over there --> http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=478989&page=21
So perhaps we should get to seriously discussing the subject (rather than "WINDOWS 8 SUCKS" "NO IT DOESN'T") because I am almost inclined to refer this thread to a moderator.
So perhaps we should get to seriously discussing the subject (rather than "WINDOWS 8 SUCKS" "NO IT DOESN'T") because I am almost inclined to refer this thread to a moderator.
Zack
99% hot gas
You have been offered solutions to completely avoid metro, and you have completely ignored them.
You've offered a single use-case problem (multitasking), which I thoroughly debunked.
Try again.
Tommy Vercetti
The Don
I just hate the new UI. I hate everything about it. Just the fact that they attempted this annoys me. If Microsoft thinks getting people to upgrade from XP is hard, wait until around 2020, if they keep going this direction, they will hopefully have more OS competition by than making more traditional desktop styled OS systems competing with them. I used to be very quick to defend Microsoft. Now I am starting to see why people see them as a big evil monopoly. We need more competition in the OS market to give consumers a choice. That would be more of a free market thing to do.
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2011/09/20/3-reasons-why-windows-8-may-be-dead-on-arrival/
Another article that is critical of Windows 8.
So you hate it, but you admit there's nothing that Windows 8 does worse than Windows 7.
Tommy Vercetti
The Don
The Windows 8 UI sucks, Windows 7 has a better and cooler looking UI. That Aero UI in Windows 7 is just cool. I don't care about boot time when the UI is as messed as it is in Windows 8. All they are tying to do is force a mobile phone interface onto PC users and a lot of us are telling them hell no.
I see you're still unable to point out anything that you're able to do better in Windows 7 than in Windows 8.
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