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How are you finding Windows 8?
ustarion
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I'm using Windows 8 PRO with a touchscreen and I think it's really good so far and I am not missing the start button much at all.
How are you finding Windows 8? 233 votes
Love it
33%
78 votes
Indifferent
25%
59 votes
Hate it
41%
96 votes
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Having done that everything - literally - works perfectly.
I'm getting used to the interface - my Windows key is getting a lot more use than before as I slowly learn the shortcuts - much quicker than the "corner" menus.
But the desktop and window borders looks so bland - I guess I'd got used to Aero. It's like I'm running on an ancient graphics card with only 16 colours.
A lot of irrational hatred out there.
I think if I had a touchscreen I might enjoy the new start menu and general navigation more. It's not that radical a change apart from the new start menu interface.
The simple app / style interface and the tiles are good. I like the live tiles.
If I have anything bad thing to say, it would be that overall, it seems confused and fragmented between the desktop and start menu interfaces. two versions of IE? Can't use Java on the start menu version. legacy software launches from the desktop even if it is on the new start menu. As usual I think Microsoft have the unenviable task of trying to please everyone with varying specs of PC's and introducing tablets into this equation is only going to make things worse.
I hope that Microsoft continue to develop this and more people come on board with native windows 8 applications to improve the experience overall.
I have Apple products but am not in any way sold by their efforts in the PC world. I will be sticking with Windows for now.
Maybe if I was using it on a laptop with a touch screen it would be better or on a tablet.
Windows 7 is like XP for me, I can see me using it for many more years,
Yes, there seems to be.
I would have thought a lot of users here would have enjoyed getting to know it, but it often doesn't seem to be given a chance.
As a non-expert "ordinary" user with a non touch laptop, I have given it a week and it is now almost as familiar, and therefore as easy to use, as W7.
Give it another week and I expect to be fully up to speed.
Of course it is not perfect, but it is very good imho, and deserves a chance.
What's the point of upgrade then?
It's a great leap forward and it has a style all of it's own.
The Windows 8 hardware spec on the Microsoft website states a minimum screen resolution of 1366x768 is required and the laptop is 1280x800.
I can see this locking out a lot of PC's from the upgrade path.
I suppose sooner or later there will be a few left on W7, sounding like XP fans not moving to W7.
A lot of the reasons for not liking it seem to be personal preferences regarding the appearance and not really any indictment of the OS for daily usage.
I'll give it a couple more weeks to get a bit more confident with it and then I'll look at getting it for home.
That said I'll keep my W7 laptop as is. purely because I'd like to start with W8 from scratch on my new PC.......:)
Thought I would try it out for a fiver. Unusable without the start menu.
My laptop is 1280x800, Windows 8 runs fine on it, Metro Snap is the only feature I miss out on.
It was a big improvement installing start8 to get the start menu back.
My son loves it tho because he can get free games in the app store like his ipad too.
Just a shame it doesn't have aero does look abit basic after having W7 like a big step backwards looks wise
Where is it available for a fiver?
The modern UI is the main problem I have it it and also the flat desktop. I put classic shell on and I don't even have to see the modern UI.
The OS is fast, it boots up fast, take s a age to close down mind you. But I am still getting a problem with it freezing with dragon, I wondering now if it is one of the extensions that windows 8 don't like.
The few Modern UI apps I have seen are basic and not really worth bothering with.
i got about another 5 days to decide if I am going to keep it.
I had some promotion code thing as it was an upgrade scheme.
Surely that's £15
Just say's when you try and run it that it ain't compatible with this version of Windows