Windows 8

[Rackat]

I do not like this OS. I bought a laptop for my daughter and it came already installed. The Admin tools are less user friendly than the old ones. The interface is "pretty", but again, not real user friendly. I'll just wait for her to figure everything out and then teach me how to use it. LOL

[LatinMind]

it looks like a hot mess

[viman96]

[BringBackThatOleTimeBoys]

My advice to everybody is unless your computer has a touchscreen, you will be lot happier with Windows 7....pulling out the Start Button in Windows 8 is IMHO a big mistake.

[REDVOLUTION]

Originally Posted by BringBackThatOleTimeBoys

My advice to everybody is unless your computer has a touchscreen, you will be lot happier with Windows 7....pulling out the Start Button in Windows 8 is IMHO a big mistake.

Yep. It's really for touchscreen.

Start button is not needed because you do the "box thing"

[Signals]

Originally Posted by REDVOLUTION

Start button is not needed because you do the "box thing"

I think what he was communicating is the "box thing" is not needed because we had the start button that worked perfectly of decades.

After watching that video, I won't touch Win 8 with a ten foot pole, ever.

[Shunpike]

Originally Posted by viman96

Oh boy

I need to buy a new laptop to use Office. I hope they still have Windows 7 loaded laptops around. This freaked me out.

[Rack Bauer]

I'm also a bit frustrated with windows 8, but that dude in the video needed to do some homework before jumping in to it.

He obviously had no idea about a lot of the features in this OS or how to use them.


I've been using windows 8 for about 2 months now and once I got the hang of it it wasn't a problem anymore.

[Chocolate Lab]

Can't you hit one button and have the traditional desktop view?

[Reality]

Originally Posted by Rack Bauer

I'm also a bit frustrated with windows 8, but that dude in the video needed to do some homework before jumping in to it.

He obviously had no idea about a lot of the features in this OS or how to use them.


I've been using windows 8 for about 2 months now and once I got the hang of it it wasn't a problem anymore.

I think you missed his point (I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with him, just pointing this out). He was complaining that Windows 8 was not intuitive. I have had both non-tech and tech friends tell me the same thing including a tech friend who is a huge Microsoft fan.

That said, the one thing I wonder is if Windows 8 is confusing and not intuitive due to poor UI/UX design or are users of previous Windows iterations simply locked into doing things a certain way and even when trying to use/learn Windows 8 they are still using the logic and thought process etched into their minds by those older Windows releases?

/reality

[iceberg]

Originally Posted by Rackat

I do not like this OS. I bought a laptop for my daughter and it came already installed. The Admin tools are less user friendly than the old ones. The interface is "pretty", but again, not real user friendly. I'll just wait for her to figure everything out and then teach me how to use it. LOL

windows 8 sucks donkey balls and will go down as worse than vista.

it's a computer/consumer OS trying to be everything on a phone.

and the interface is horrible. it's like watching the partridge familys bus crash into hollywood squares.

[viman96]

You guys really should watch the video review I posted

[Rackat]

Originally Posted by viman96

You guys really should watch the video review I posted

Just watched it. Spot on analysis.

[BrAinPaiNt]

Originally Posted by iceberg

windows 8 sucks donkey balls and will go down as worse than vista.

it's a computer/consumer OS trying to be everything on a phone.

and the interface is horrible. it's like watching the partridge familys bus crash into hollywood squares.

That is so funny because it is so spot on.

[CliffnMesquite]

I disliked it from the moment I first saw it. I had a wi8ndows phone and dislike the tiles.