WINDOWS 8?

[Kagamine]

Why they thought making an OS designed for a tablet when they've gone up until now making OS's for computers, and then trying to put a tablet OS on a computer was a good idea... I will never know.

I mean, I know that tablets and tabtops are becoming more popular, but here's the thing- everyone has a computer. How many people do I know have tablets/tabtops? I know one person with a tablet and not a single person with a tabtop. Everyone I know has a computer. Windows is trying to appeal to the minority and ignoring the majority. Why.

[Brovo]

Why they thought making an OS designed for a tablet when they've gone up until now making OS's for computers, and then trying to put a tablet OS on a computer was a good idea... I will never know.

I mean, I know that tablets and tabtops are becoming more popular, but here's the thing- everyone has a computer. How many people do I know have tablets/tabtops? I know one person with a tablet and not a single person with a tabtop. Everyone I know has a computer. Windows is trying to appeal to the minority and ignoring the majority. Why.

Stupid is as stupid does, ma'am.

[Kadaeux]

Why they thought making an OS designed for a tablet when they've gone up until now making OS's for computers, and then trying to put a tablet OS on a computer was a good idea... I will never know.

I mean, I know that tablets and tabtops are becoming more popular, but here's the thing- everyone has a computer. How many people do I know have tablets/tabtops? I know one person with a tablet and not a single person with a tabtop. Everyone I know has a computer. Windows is trying to appeal to the minority and ignoring the majority. Why.

Because they have it in their absurdly tiny heads that Tablets and Smartphones are the future and PCs are going to die horrible deaths involving fire, lions and three separate varieties of acid-spitting salmon with legs.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing...aker-thinks-so

[Assallya]

I should point out that, however much people despise the user interface Windows 8 uses far less resources, both in terms of hard drive space and memory. They built Windows 8 from the kernel up this time around instead of building off previous frameworks.

Windows 8 isn't any better or worse then Windows 7 when it comes to gaming. It's the Xbox that is holding desktop gaming back. Games are only as good as the DirectX suite allows. Microsoft doesn't want games on the home desktop surpassing their Xbox gaming console thus is severely limiting DirectX's capabilities.

This is why Valve is considering it's own operating system that does nothing else but run games; to get around the limitations of DirectX. (and there are rumours of their own console as well)

[Brovo]

Windows 7.

Windows 8.

Their requirements are nearly identical. Except that 8 throws more crap in my way to get past to do things. Fact checking!

Windows 8 is worse. Because I can't navigate the system very well I have to fight with it to get emulators working. Meanwhile on Windows 7, I double click a desktop icon and it runs. I don't have to run the desktop app, the desktop is already there.

If I want a more detailed view, I open explorer.

There was absolutely nothing wrong with this system.

Throwing another screen in my way for the maybe 2% of owners that have and actively use a touchscreen display, is a waste of my !@#$ing time, and is a giant pain in the ass for both veterans and newcomers to Windows 8.

Seriously. Imagine you're new to Windows, like you're... Eight, or something. You want to run a game. It's not in the available apps list. What do you do? In any other version of windows, you find the icon or you go to the start menu (which used to be labelled "start" outright) and go find it. In Windows 8 you open a search menu to go find the file type and then hope that Windows search isn't broken again to find an executable that is maybe the right one.

Even if Windows 8 isn't any better or worse, that begs the question... Why buy it then? Windows 7 is already there, it doesn't throw an extra screen in my way to do things, and it runs on the same system requirements as 8. Plus it's been out for a couple years so modders and other third party developers have already made stuff specifically with 7 in mind. 8 Doesn't even get points there.

[Azseth]

First thing is that, it's not that things are DIFFERENT. It's that they are drastically different. BIOS for example, it took me a good 10 mins at LEAST to figure out how to get there, but THEN when I chose the options to get there, it will not go. Still haven't ran BIOS.

The interface, again, in my opinion, is horrible and I feel like everything is at least 2 or 3 screens away vice on the desktop.

I don't give a shit about apps. I don't have a touchscreen, which is what I FEEL W8 was geared more towards.

Several things I'm trying to use for mods and stuff aren't compatible with W8 yet (not that this is the fault of Windows/Microsoft).

There isn't ONE feature about 8 that made me sit back and say "wow, I like what they did here."

Then little stuff, having to go through multiple screens to power off. I feel like I have never used Windows before. From 95 up, I haven't felt this frustrated and lost with an operating system and I feel like I should go to a class to learn to use it.

Those are just my initial thoughts.

Az

This!

Az