Windows 8 - Your Thoughts and Opinion

**altereDad** · 11-23-2012, 11:49 AM

For the family home it's not something easily integrated. At a young age it's fine, at a technical standpoint, as well. But the challenged is where it's a hard sell. And if one system is used by all Windows 7 is the winning recipient at the moment.

It will take time to push it to the forefront, and MS is trying to be like every other market and get people to upgrade. They'll make it harder to stay behind when they release DirectX 11.1. These are what aggravate developers. They aren't scared but some look at alternatives. See the Beta tests of Steam.

**PP Mguire** · 11-23-2012, 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by najiro

Acceptance might be slow and MS might rethink of what they are doing. Still, do you plan to switch to mac or linux now? that's the next question to answer. You might still be sailing along with windows 7 but as MS pushes improvements to windows 8.. It's very likely it will be the next big thing in the future.. Depending on how upgrading options go, it would be wise to invest on a cheap OS today which would likely be successful and become expensive in the future.

Anyway, its not much of a screw up compared to vista. I'm still positive for this OS.

Windows 8 shares the same kernel as 7, so anything they release on 8 can be put on 7. They are planning on releasing 11.1 only for 8 but it wont make a difference. Nothing uses it, and games hardly use 11/10 today. Few years down the road and it'll just be another ME.

Originally Posted by ET3D

The way I see it, since Windows 2000 Microsoft has been releasing a new OS to test the waters, then one to tweak it. So XP was an improved Windows 2000, and 7 was an improved Vista. I imagine that Windows 9 will not be a huge change but will be well liked. By that time Windows 8 will also be pretty decent, and just disliked on principle, like Vista was.

Vista was disliked because it was a very bloated OS due to its RAM footprint and mass resource hoarding in a time of pretty slow computers. The average computer only had 1GB of RAM and when your OS uses most of it your computer then becomes really slow. It was only us enthusiasts who had 2 or more GB of RAM and even then my computer dropped 10-15FPS in games just from switching to Vista AND Vliting it. The difference here is, Vista actually brought some groundbreaking new technology to the table and was the stomping ground of things like DX10, Superfetch, and a few other well liked technologies. They just blew the candles out by making it very bloated.

Originally Posted by altereDad

For the family home it's not something easily integrated. At a young age it's fine, at a technical standpoint, as well. But the challenged is where it's a hard sell. And if one system is used by all Windows 7 is the winning recipient at the moment.

It will take time to push it to the forefront, and MS is trying to be like every other market and get people to upgrade. They'll make it harder to stay behind when they release DirectX 11.1. These are what aggravate developers. They aren't scared but some look at alternatives. See the Beta tests of Steam.

11.1 wont have any effect sort of like how 10 or 10.1 wasn't a big issue. The new consoles are 11 and not 11.1, so any game released after the new consoles are released will still be playable on 7.

**sifter** · 11-24-2012, 12:40 PM

Been sitting this one out at most have already clearly discussed the disdain of switching from a start menu to the newer interface and items that brings along with it. Microsoft best improvement with windows 8 clearly is the price. When it came out, there were several places such as staples that were offering it close to $40 dollars.

**PP Mguire** · 11-24-2012, 03:12 PM

Windows 8 costs the same as 7 now. 140 bucks for a full version of 8 Pro x64.

**werty316** · 11-24-2012, 05:56 PM

One hilarious thing about Windows 8 is the users who want to make the GUI look like Windows 7. Kind of pointless.

**ET3D** · 11-24-2012, 06:54 PM

A large part of 11.1 is already available for 7 as a preview. I don't know why people still talk about it as if it's 8 only.

Regarding consoles, I'm sure they will be closer to 11.1 than 11. Consoles usually have functionality that's not available at the OS level simply because they don't need to be cross hardware, can share memory easily, etc. Besides, AMD's current cards (7000 series) already support 11.1 and NVIDIA Kepler supports part of it (see here).

**BSGApollo79** · 12-06-2012, 04:15 PM

My wife bought a new laptop for work and I get to try Windows 8. It takes some getting used to and most users will probably disable all the Bing integrated apps that are pre-installed. The Start screen will also take some getting used to as it doesn`t instantly pop up but has some fancy animation that takes up half a second but it adds up waiting for it all the time, plus you have to move your cursor to the corners and wait for it like it was a touch screen rather than a mouse. The OS is pretty darn fast though! Everything feels snappier and loads instantly.

**khangdan1992** · 12-10-2012, 06:25 PM

well i'm still using window 7, i may install window8 when the bugs are fixed

**PP Mguire** · 12-11-2012, 10:23 PM

Originally Posted by werty316

One hilarious thing about Windows 8 is the users who want to make the GUI look like Windows 7. Kind of pointless.

Have to agree. The only thing I can agree on arguments over is native USB3 and other such support.

**Hokerie** · 12-20-2012, 12:38 AM

I haven't gotten a chance to fully play with it more than about a dozen times and it looks pretty slick, but it's really annoying to use because of the lack of a start menu. I've heard there aren't any compatibility problems, it runs really fast and it takes a couple weeks to get fully used to it, but I personally don't want to use it until I feel the need to. It feels more meant for a tablet rather than a PC. I dono, we'll see.

**sushrukh** · 01-22-2013, 11:02 AM

Windows 8 Pro with Media Center rocks for me.No known bugs whatsoever & everything feels faster than Win 7.

The lack of Start menu can easily be resolved by installing a free & ad free software called " Classic Shell ".

**peti1212** · 01-22-2013, 03:28 PM

Yeah, there is no real reason why not to use Windows 8. Now with Start 8, or "classic shell" out along with many other free based start menu implementations, you can turn your Windows 8 into a Windows 7 looking OS.

**PP Mguire** · 01-22-2013, 04:08 PM

Originally Posted by peti1212

Yeah, there is no real reason why not to use Windows 8. Now with Start 8, or "classic shell" out along with many other free based start menu implementations, you can turn your Windows 8 into a Windows 7 looking OS.

Except for those of us who have found bugs with it, and prefer their RAM usage to be lower which they achieve in 7. I finally found another person who has higher RAM usage in 8 as well and he has 4GB which is a no no.

I don't see the point in people getting 8 just to make it look like 7 and all that work for nothing. Since I took 8 to a LAN party I seriously prefer networking in 7 over 8. Two of us had Windows 8 at that LAN and it was a nightmare with file sharing.

**Goliath182** · 01-22-2013, 04:47 PM

I haven't played much with W8 since it looked more suited for touch screen devices. I have a WP8 though, and I love the device. The OS is setup better than iOS imo, which I prefer over Android. It certainly gives a refreshing new look for smart phones, iOS and Android haven't really been focused on improving the look and feel of their OS as of late. They are mostly stacking on new features. As well as the Lumia 920 being a mere $99 after it launched certainly helped its cause since its massively cheaper than the iPhone 5 while having slightly better specifications.

**foxmobouser** · 04-04-2013, 01:03 AM

After several months of using Windows 8 I am calling it quits. This OS is absolutely horrific and even thou it offers some improvements and somewhat better speeds in some areas it is not worth it. The biggest beef I have with it is that it simply does not listen to the user. I want it to do one thing and it does something totally different. I'm constantly getting the feeling that the OS is fighting against me instead of working with me.