Why you should say no to Windows 8 and stick with Windows 7.

There would be nothing for me to say on the Windows 8 forum apart from saying that Windows 8 is horrible.Which it is. And that Windows 7 and Windows XP are better than Windows 8.Which is also true. And that Windows 8 is not the real Windows.Well Windows 8 is not really,it is more like another operating system.So that would not go down very well on a Windows 8 forum.

I gave up using Linux because I did not know how to use it,and I have never used Mac. But I don't want to use Linux and Mac,which I don't know how to use anyway. That's why I use Windows. But now they are planning to make the next version of Windows like Linux or Mac. Well Windows 8 looks like Ubuntu or Mac and not like Windows at all. No wonder I and other people are so upset.

This whole system they have when you go to the shops to buy a laptop.That because there is a new version of Windows out,if you want to buy Windows XP,Windows 2000,98,98 or Windows Vista you can't,because the shops don't sell it any more.That is not right.

It is our life on the computer.If we want to buy Windows 7,Windows XP Windows 2000 or even Windows 98,or 95, then why can't we?

We Windows users should be able to buy what version of Windows we want. But we cannot because the shops do not sell Windows XP or Windows 2000 any more. It is all very silly.

Now they have this Windows 8. And if they stop selling Windows 7.We will be forced to buy Windows 8,when we do have to buy a new laptop.

That is my worst nightmare. I and other people will be stuck with an operating system I and other people cannot figure out how to use. And I don't think I will be able to use Windows 8. The way it is,unless it has a normal start menu and desktop like Windows 7.

I can understand people upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7. But Windows 7 is the real Windows and it is a new version of Windows,made only 2 years ago. Windows XP and Windows 7 are both good and they are both voted by me as the two number 1 operating systems.

They could make a Windows 8 but without the Metro theme one that is like Windows 7.With a normal Windows 7 start menu and desktop. But why should we want to use Windows 8,even if it was like Windows 7,with no Metro theme? When we have got Windows 7 and Windows 7 is a brand new operating system brought out only 2 years ago? And most people have only just upgraded to Windows 7 and bought a new Windows 7 computer less than a year ago.

So we have already got a new version of Windows-Windows 7. Andrea Borman.

Randy, I think your comment was very appropriate. However, I also understand where the other people come from. For the less adventureous Windows user, the Metro must be shocking at first. What one does not see is the things that were changed under the hood - all you see is a completely different hood.

I have been playing around with Win8 since the Alpha version came out. I notice that it is very stable, runs fast (like most alpha versions, remains to be seen how a fully loaded system behaves) and that there are little problems to run all kinds of available programs.

I must, however, also say that I did not yet find a lot of new attractive functions for the desktop user. The ribbons are nice - I like them. The IE10 is interesting and the task manager is a lot better (although I have this info now in the Resource Monitor). But after that I suppose we will have to wait for the Beta.

In the mobile device market, that is a completely different story. I predict that Win8 will change the landscape - not only for tablets and smartphones, but also for the Intels and AMDs. With Nvidea, Qualcom and alike now entering the Windows scene, the cards will be stacked differently. Netbooks, laptops and maybe even desktops with ARM (Risc) processors are now possible which will cut cost (not only for CPUs and GPUs but also for cooling and PSUs) and will allow for a new packaging approach.

I think it is going to be exciting. Win8 is the entry gate to a completely new world of home and corporate computing.

Originally Posted by whs

Randy, I think your comment was very appropriate. However, I also understand where the other people come from. For the less adventureous Windows user, the Metro must be shocking at first.

Shocking? It is outrageous that Microsoft are going to release a Windows like this to the public. Windows 8 does not even have the right to call itself Windows.It is nothing like Windows.

And most home computer users who are not very experienced with computers, and who only know the basic functions of Windows will not be able to use this operating system, Windows 8. Can you imagine offices and schools who have used Windows for years with Windows 8? they wont know how to use it.And I won't know how to use Windows 8 either.

We should have street marches and street protests and write to our President or Prime Minister,so that they will ban Windows 8. They we will be safe with Windows 7, and we will never have to face the dreaded Windows 8. As that is what it has become known as. I never want to go on Windows 8 for as long as I shall live. Andrea Borman.

The funny thing is that I think the Metro was designed to make computers or computer like devices more accessible for the less technical experienced crowd - besides it seems to be the common approach for touchscreens.

The trouble is desktops aren't touch screens. I hope MS makes the Metro optional I dodn't like it. I also don't use a fancy cell phone or hand held devices. After I got tired of it it only took about 10-15 of searching to find an app to bypass Metro and go straight to desktop. I'm interested to see the beta release too.
Joe

Correct or not, I do, with sincerity, think that the fear and antagonism toward MS, over this plan, is being over fuelled by the media. Microsoft blogs are overlong, and often a whirl of self contradiction, but, I do not read this particualr issue as other do. I am willing to be contradicted. The blog refers to it as being an option. If you consider the implications of fully locking out the installation of other OS's, you can (or I can?) see the absurdity and impossibility of it. It means , effectively, that you could not, for example, replace it with an image which you have kept as a safegard, and other similar problems with multi OS users in Offices. I can see suing actions going on for years!
Read the blog!

Protecting the pre-OS environment with UEFI - Building Windows 8 - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

Draw your own conclusions. I see it as a method to prevent the ever increasing, and deadly, rootkit invasion - nothing more sinister.
Whilst the statement is not to direct, the blog does indicate that this will be an option entirely up to the user. They even publish a (small) example of how it may look.

Demonstration of this control is found in the Samsung tablet with Windows 8
Developer Preview that was offered to //BUILD/ participants. In the screenshot
below you will notice that we designed the firmware to allow the customer to
disable secure boot. However, doing so comes at your own risk. OEMs are free to
choose how to enable this support and can further customize the parameters as
described above in an effort to deliver unique value propositions to their
customers. Windows merely did work to provide great OS support for a scenario we
believe many will find valuable across consumers and enterprise customers.

Originally Posted by Joe S

The trouble is desktops aren't touch screens. I hope MS makes the Metro optional I didn't like it. I also don't use a fancy cell phone or hand held devices. After I got tired of it it only took about 10-15 of searching to find an app to bypass Metro and go straight to desktop. I'm interested to see the beta release too.
Joe

Well said Joe.

The Metro theme is terrible. Not only is it as ugly as hell, but it is impossible to use a computer with the Metro theme, and the system that is Windows 8. Maybe there is something you and other Windows users can do to stop Windows 8 ever coming into existence.

I hate Windows 8 and so do most other people.

I have never used Windows 8 but from what I have seen, and heard about it,there is nothing positive about Windows 8.There is absolutely NOTHING good about it. And if you try Windows 8, the only outcome will be that you won't be able to use it.

I think Windows 8 could be THE OPERATING SYSTEM THAT NOBODY CAN USE.Because it is just too difficult and complicated to use.Like Linux was. That's why I gave up using Linux and went back to Windows.

But now I am facing being stuck with a version of Windows I cannot figure out how to use-Windows 8.Unless someone stands up to Microsoft and stops Windows 8 ever being put out on sale. So we can keep on using Windows 7. Andrea Borman.

Windows 8 is not that bad, I checked it beta version and its working properly. Though its a bit slow as I am running it on an old system but most probably we will be having it in polished and final version till its next normal version release!

I feel that you and I are rather opposed in our views, Andrea. But it is just a friendly exchange of views - right?
You hate Windows 8 but have not tried it? Hmm.

Like Joe, having no touchpad, and not being in the market to purchase one, I quickly chose the option to bypass it and return to the familiar, and 100% identical, desktop.

Superfluous, but of significance. NOOne has yet tried Windows 8, outside of MS employment. It may have been a mistake on MS's part to release the developer for the public to play with. It was intended, as implied, for software and hardware people to have advanced warning in order to prepare their products. As was well known, this was a mistake made with the panic release of Vista, which gave it an unwarranted bad name. The developer is largely unfinished, particualarly in the area of graphical presentation. Hints and promises are there, and the final product, or even the Beta, may satisfy some of the pundits.
To suggest (militant) action, in order to stop it's sale, is unrealistic and impractical. If you don't like it. don't buy it - simple.

"I hate Windows 8 (developer release?)and so do most other people."

Not so. Quite a few comments, for and against.

"it is just too difficult and complicated to use."

In what respect. Clicking icons, instead of selecting shortcuts, is not for me, but I don't find it brainstorming. I have seen, even in my family, desktops totally cluttered with shortcuts - is that so different. Other than that, there is no difference in the operation.

"But now I am facing being stuck with a version of Windows"

Why? As I said, it is your choice to buy and use it.

Well,as I have said before,they could make a Windows 8 without the Metro theme. And just make Windows 8 like Windows 7. With a Windows 7 start menu and Windows 7 desktop. But Microsoft don't want to do that. They want to make Windows 8 like it is now.That's the problem.

Windows is a great operating system.It is the most user friendly operating system there is.And while there have been some versions of Windows that were slow,Windows ME and Windows Vista.Although I have never used Windows ME I just heard about it on the web.But what all versions of Windows have in common, is that they all have a start menu and desktop.

Except for Windows 8 which is nothing like Windows with the Metro theme.

But Windows users identify Windows with a start menu and desktop and it is the only thing we know how to use. But we don't know how to use an operating system like Windows 8. We are not Linux users.
We are not Mac users.
We are Windows users.
And we want a Windows operating system that is like Windows. Not this Windows 8 that is this Metro theme and from what I read is based on the I Pad and mobile phones.

But Windows 7 is only 2 years old so why should we upgrade to Windows 8,even if it did have a normal start menu and desktop. When Windows 7 is the new operating system and has everything we want. So I see no need for a Windows 8 at all.

If I was a President or a Prime Minister I would ban Windows 8 because of the way it is. And I think that Windows 8 should be struck off the face of the earth. It is a horrible horrible operating system that does not have the right to call itself Windows.

The real Windows is all of the other versions except for Windows 8. That is Windows 7,Windows XP,Windows Vista,Windows 2000,Windows 98,95 and Windows ME and Windows NT. NOT WINDOWS 8.Andrea Borman.