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Anyone Upgrading to Windows 8? - strife - 10-12-2012
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Everything I've heard about it is that it's more catered towards tablets & touch screens...
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Re: Anyone Upgrading to Windows 8? - Snowreap - 10-13-2012
I'll probably pick up some licenses on October 29 when Microsoft is going to have them for sale cheap (~$40, I hear). If you don't like the new 'pane' interface there's a registry tweak to give Win8 the old Win7 UI.
-ken
Re: Anyone Upgrading to Windows 8? - Diggles - 10-13-2012
every other Microsoft OS is god awful terrible shit. Besides that, most rational people will wait 6 months to a year for them to work bugs out, unless you like half your stuff breaking.
Re: Anyone Upgrading to Windows 8? - Snowreap - 10-13-2012
if I were running Win7 already, I wouldn't bother upgrading at all. but I'm still running 64-bit XP on my main rig, and 32-bit XP on the big-screen machine, and my wife is running 32-bit Vista.
but at $40 I'm willing to pony up for some Win8 licenses, even if I don't actually install all of them right away.
-ken
Re: Anyone Upgrading to Windows 8? - strife - 10-13-2012
Diggles Wrote:every other Microsoft OS is god awful terrible shit. Besides that, most rational people will wait 6 months to a year for them to work bugs out, unless you like half your stuff breaking.Every other Microsoft OS? Other than what? Windows 8 or 7?
I don't buy your most rational people... most rational techies can get past any bugs. Maybe most rational non-techies. I got win7 when it came out and never had any real issues with it, but I skipped Vista altogether.
Snowreap Wrote:if I were running Win7 already, I wouldn't bother upgrading at all. but I'm still running 64-bit XP on my main rig, and 32-bit XP on the big-screen machine, and my wife is running 32-bit Vista.That's kind of where I'm sitting... I'm running win7 64-bit and have no problems with it... I like it quite a bit. But for $60, when you know the price is going to go up to 100+ a few months after the release.
but at $40 I'm willing to pony up for some Win8 licenses, even if I don't actually install all of them right away.
-ken
Re: Anyone Upgrading to Windows 8? - grizzle - 11-28-2012
For all future touch devices that I may own (Surface, obviously, but also touch laptops, for example, and maybe even, at some point, a desktop with a touch monitor), I would put Win8 on it without hesitation.
For my current desktop, that I use for video editing, photo editing, gaming, writing, etc., I'll keep Win7x64 on it. I've never had a problem witn Win7, it works flawlessly for me. The main problem I have with Win8 for normal desktops is the lack of Start button on the traditional desktop "screen", and the attempt at forced usage of the metro tiles - metro tiles were made wonderfully for touch, but, and this is just my own opinion, forced metro tiles are crap for keyboard+mouse.
If they added a Start button to the traditional desktop in Win8, and quite trying to force me into Tiles view, then I'd upgrade in a heartbeat, as there are a bunch of very nice improvements, including performance, to be had.
Re: Anyone Upgrading to Windows 8? - Snowreap - 11-28-2012
I wonder if a better mouse would make a difference? something like this:
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/mice-pointers/mice/touch-mouse-t620
-ken
Re: Anyone Upgrading to Windows 8? - strife - 11-28-2012
grizzle Wrote:For all future touch devices that I may own (Surface, obviously, but also touch laptops, for example, and maybe even, at some point, a desktop with a touch monitor), I would put Win8 on it without hesitation.Have you actually used Win8 for more than about 5 minutes? I've used Windows 8 exclusively for both work and home since it was released and I don't miss the start button.
For my current desktop, that I use for video editing, photo editing, gaming, writing, etc., I'll keep Win7x64 on it. I've never had a problem witn Win7, it works flawlessly for me. The main problem I have with Win8 for normal desktops is the lack of Start button on the traditional desktop "screen", and the attempt at forced usage of the metro tiles - metro tiles were made wonderfully for touch, but, and this is just my own opinion, forced metro tiles are crap for keyboard+mouse.
If they added a Start button to the traditional desktop in Win8, and quite trying to force me into Tiles view, then I'd upgrade in a heartbeat, as there are a bunch of very nice improvements, including performance, to be had.
And the start button is still kind of there, you just right click down there and it brings up most of the same options. I honestly never go into the metro/tiles. I have shortcuts to most of my apps on my task bar or desktop and the only time I do go into metro is when I need to get to a program that I don't regularly use, then I just go there and use the search function to get to it.
There is a slight learning curve to windows 8, but after that... it's just windows 7 with some fluff.
Re: Anyone Upgrading to Windows 8? - grizzle - 11-30-2012
Strife Wrote:Have you actually used Win8 for more than about 5 minutes?
Yes - the company I work for has pretty much required all of its employees to have Win8 installed on at least one of our work machines for the past 6+ months.
Re: Anyone Upgrading to Windows 8? - grizzle - 11-30-2012
Snowreap Wrote:I wonder if a better mouse would make a difference? something like this:
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/mice-pointers/mice/touch-mouse-t620
-ken
Interesting - definitely something I'll have to try out.