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a heading like "Whining objections to Windows 8 Easily Overcome, when not pure fiction" comes across as trolling, but you do make some valid points: security (mostly this isn't seen and therefore not appreciated); and stability (although 7 is very stable here). I'm not sure what exactly you mean by 'forgiving behaviour', but I can report running a pretty big piece of software from 1999 (Freehand 9), and it runs better than on XP or 7 (minor 'dysfunctionalities' are gone in 8). The other side of the coin is that I think you must have gotten the bug free version of 8
In mine:
(1) random mouse movements activate the charmsbar (and tell me the time). I've tried registry fixes to no avail. This is the killer for me and I'm not alone (although there appear to be variations on this one - maybe hardware is a factor). Simple fix: - MS gives us ability to turn it off.
(2) I get (what feels like) randomly thrown from one interface to the other. If they weren't so visually different this might be easier to cope with - but it would be just that - "coping". I dont want to cope with my OS, I want it to help me get things done. [technically not a bug - but it's the kind of behaviour that normally would get removed before moving from beta]. Not such a simple fix for MS.
(3) I have found a successful work-around to MS forcing the Tiles on us and can now boot to desktop ("coping" anyone?) [again, not a bug - unfortunately it's more like getting the finger from MS. See quote below, and 1ronman's full post]. A simple fix for MS: choice please.
(4) there is no reasonable excuse (apart from maybe quote below) for removing the start menu. It affects me *relatively* little (I'm keyboard friendly, & for years now I've used an app launcher) but for the things I seldom do where there's a shortcut in there, I need a workaround (btw thanks for your recommendation, I'm unhappy with classic start menu). A simple fix for MS: choice please.
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the above (mainly 1 & 2) are enough to stop me using it - thankfully I have a choice
I pray for the day that MS will decide they've done enough advertising for 'the Tiles' and allow desktop users to be just that.
Quote from "1ronman" (More Windows 8 hating):
"With Windows 8, it appears that Microsoft has provided a user interface that you have to bypass or work around to use your computer. So far, everything seems like change so we can get some more of your money. I hope time proves me wrong..."
a heading like "Whining objections to Windows 8 Easily Overcome, when not pure fiction" comes across as trolling, but you do make some valid points: security (mostly this isn't seen and therefore not appreciated); and stability (although 7 is very stable here). I'm not sure what exactly you mean by 'forgiving behaviour', but I can report running a pretty big piece of software from 1999 (Freehand 9), and it runs better than on XP or 7 (minor 'dysfunctionalities' are gone in 8). The other side of the coin is that I think you must have gotten the bug free version of 8
In mine:
(1) random mouse movements activate the charmsbar (and tell me the time). I've tried registry fixes to no avail. This is the killer for me and I'm not alone (although there appear to be variations on this one - maybe hardware is a factor). Simple fix: - MS gives us ability to turn it off.
(2) I get (what feels like) randomly thrown from one interface to the other. If they weren't so visually different this might be easier to cope with - but it would be just that - "coping". I dont want to cope with my OS, I want it to help me get things done. [technically not a bug - but it's the kind of behaviour that normally would get removed before moving from beta]. Not such a simple fix for MS.
(3) I have found a successful work-around to MS forcing the Tiles on us and can now boot to desktop ("coping" anyone?) [again, not a bug - unfortunately it's more like getting the finger from MS. See quote below, and 1ronman's full post]. A simple fix for MS: choice please.
(4) there is no reasonable excuse (apart from maybe quote below) for removing the start menu. It affects me *relatively* little (I'm keyboard friendly, & for years now I've used an app launcher) but for the things I seldom do where there's a shortcut in there, I need a workaround (btw thanks for your recommendation, I'm unhappy with classic start menu). A simple fix for MS: choice please.
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the above (mainly 1 & 2) are enough to stop me using it - thankfully I have a choice
I pray for the day that MS will decide they've done enough advertising for 'the Tiles' and allow desktop users to be just that. Quote from "1ronman" (More Windows 8 hating):
"With Windows 8, it appears that Microsoft has provided a user interface that you have to bypass or work around to use your computer. So far, everything seems like change so we can get some more of your money. I hope time proves me wrong..."
Posted by tom0s
Updated - 4th Feb
