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 ·RoadRunner Cable
| ugly I don't like the looks of windows 8. No matter if its on a PC/tablet or phone. I'm staying with window 7 on my gaming rig.
I won't upgrade till MS learns to stay away from that ugly look format. The look of desktop of a windows 8 OS. Looks like it should be on a Fisher Price Toy. |
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| said by Lowtarget:I don't like the looks of windows 8. No matter if its on a PC/tablet or phone. I'm staying with window 7 on my gaming rig.
I won't upgrade till MS learns to stay away from that ugly look format. The look of desktop of a windows 8 OS. Looks like it should be on a Fisher Price Toy.
You have no clue on how to work a computer! You can make Win 8 to look like Win 7 desktop... Really it look like a Fisher Price Toy?? lol... |
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 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to Lowtarget
said by Lowtarget:I don't like the looks of windows 8. No matter if its on a PC/tablet or phone. I'm staying with window 7 on my gaming rig.
I won't upgrade till MS learns to stay away from that ugly look format. The look of desktop of a windows 8 OS. Looks like it should be on a Fisher Price Toy.
Well I guess you'll be on windows 7 forever. This is the future get used to it. Nothing wrong with 7 but all the windows 8 haters never actually tried it. But hey don't make things easier for yourself or anything. |
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+1000
Windows 8 is complete garbage, they made a phone/tablet out of a home pc!
If I wanted a tablet I would have bought one, now MS is pushing this new unusale os that turns an advanced home/business pc into a dumbed down tablet, which is very annoying to use with a mouse as its designed for touch screen, which 99% of pcs don't have nor need.
To use this windows8 pc for anything besides explorer and email takes 10x longer! And the interface is not intuitive at all.
I was able to figure out every version of windows in 5 mins or less, since win 3.11, and this win8 crap I couldn't even minimize or close an app!
This os is like a bad port of a game from a console into a pc, and its like they took a tablet os and made it work on a pc. Total crap. |
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said by Lowtarget:I don't like the looks of windows 8. No matter if its on a PC/tablet or phone. I'm staying with window 7 on my gaming rig.
I won't upgrade till MS learns to stay away from that ugly look format. The look of desktop of a windows 8 OS. Looks like it should be on a Fisher Price Toy.
I never see the Metro UI unless i want to. Just click desktop on the lower left on metro and to the desktop you go no darn biggie. |
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FUGLY then Fisher Price Toy. Soiled my adult diapers over all that.
Still struggling as to whether to bother w/ Win 8 Pro since happy enough w/ Win 7 x64 Ultimate. Once there's an auto load into desktop rather than lower corner.... So far the Source Forge prg seems best Start hack but not sure if Metro/Modern, whatever. doesn't flash its appearance. And MS rushing out a fix patch right away, so comforting lol. Sandy 8. |
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said by BF69:said by Lowtarget:I don't like the looks of windows 8. No matter if its on a PC/tablet or phone. I'm staying with window 7 on my gaming rig.
I won't upgrade till MS learns to stay away from that ugly look format. The look of desktop of a windows 8 OS. Looks like it should be on a Fisher Price Toy.
Well I guess you'll be on windows 7 forever. This is the future get used to it. Nothing wrong with 7 but all the windows 8 haters never actually tried it. But hey don't make things easier for yourself or anything. I did try the beta and it was horrible. The tiles are very unusable and not that good of an idea. The UI is missing cues about how to navigate. Do I go up/down, left/right, what? Then there's the desktop/Metro switch, lots of inconsistencies, etc.
And the tiles are horrible. Had something similar on my Android phone for Facebook and you could never see statuses past the most recent one. In other words there was no scrolling.
Sorry, it's very very bad design. But I expect that from Microsoft as they have pretty much always had bad design. |
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said by BF69:said by Lowtarget:I don't like the looks of windows 8. No matter if its on a PC/tablet or phone. I'm staying with window 7 on my gaming rig.
I won't upgrade till MS learns to stay away from that ugly look format. The look of desktop of a windows 8 OS. Looks like it should be on a Fisher Price Toy.
Well I guess you'll be on windows 7 forever. This is the future get used to it. Nothing wrong with 7 but all the windows 8 haters never actually tried it. But hey don't make things easier for yourself or anything. I am a Win8 hater and I tried it. |
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 ·World Lynx
·Cox HSI
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said by Lowtarget:I don't like the looks of windows 8. No matter if its on a PC/tablet or phone. I'm staying with window 7 on my gaming rig.
I won't upgrade till MS learns to stay away from that ugly look format. The look of desktop of a windows 8 OS. Looks like it should be on a Fisher Price Toy.
I have been using the Win 8 RC release on a VM on my machine for some time. Takes some getting used to, but for $39 I can download the upgrade from Microsoft's site. So I may give it a whirl on my main machine. Been warning my newbie clients away from it since they are already used to Win XP, Vista, 7 (you know how hard it is to get novice users to change, especially older folks).
If I don't like how it turns out, will pop in the Win 7 DVD and rebuild. Been wanting to do that for some time anyhow...  |
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·Time Warner Cable
 ·Verizon FiOS
 ·voip.ms
| I just installed the new metro update to my xbox in the last couple of days. It is getting better (less movement), but it is far from usable. I can't easily pin with a remote (xbox controller needed). It's like they talk about home media, but then create the experience for the controller and gamer. IDIOTS. For instance I use xbox for gaming (kids) but also as an extender. So for all of the xboxes with kid accounts, I need to upgrade, re-login to xbl, agree to new TOS, and then login again. The process sucks up over 20 minutes on each xbox, and I have 5 of them. This is totally ridiculous, and they have never fixed xbl for multiple users or have flexibility for media users. It's all centered around gaming. It's like their marketing department and engineering are on two different continents I want to love it, but it's like MSFT does their hardest to make life difficult.
I worked with Win8 and I absolutely detest it. The usability is horrid on a PC, and will need a refresh just like the xbox to get partly usable. And the color scheme is about as bad as my old Samsung Charge. I think this is by far the ugliest UI I have ever seen in modern times, bar none. Visually it's like mahjong and it's hard to separate duties (maybe that's the point). I see absolutely no reason to hurry to Win 8, especially because they have ejected media center. Sooner or later I will be dragged because that's what they do, but I won't be in a rush. I waited out Vista, I can do the same. I happen to like how these chromebooks are coming along.
Microsoft's strategy is fractured, pure in simple. It's design by committee, the GM of computing. They can't get out of their own way. And they continue the trend of throwing out all old phones and not giving them access to the latest OS. Want WinMo 8, too bad buy the latest. Your Win 7 phone may get patches if we feel like it. Now Android was in that place (due to forking, not hardware), but I have a drawer full of old tablets and phones from Microsoft that were deprecated the day they went out the door. |
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stridr69
join:2003-05-19
San Luis Obispo, CA | Nice take. Not sure what Redmond is thinking here with the PC version of Win8. Doesn't anybody there notice why XP is still around after all these years? Hello?. I have no problem with a complete update but why such a radical UI change? For a phone/tablet or a touch screen, I can see using the tile UI. A home PC is a different matter IMHO. Too bad as MS has a great deal right now for upgrade cost from XP, Vista, Win7. Is there a legacy screen that's available on Win8? Otherwise Win7 is as far as I go...as well as typing this on an iPad3....  |
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| I'm a little confused by the all the complaints that Win8 is not usable on a PC with a mouse. I've been using Win8 for over a month and the desktop UI feels very similar to Win7. I'm in the desktop probably 99% of the time...it's just no big deal. But I do enjoy some of the new Win8 features (file copy is much better, the client Hyper-V technology is really really great). |
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