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Friday 26 Oct 2012

Win 8 hits the street

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15 Responses to “Win 8 hits the street”

1. on 26 Oct 2012 at 6:57 am   Randy Rager
   
   

   It’s only radical if you want to use it on a touch screen interface, otherwise it’s a hideously ugly monstrosity that makes you want to gouge your eyes out in sheer disgust that the supposedly intelligent members of your species slapped this piece of shit together and worse, EXPECT TO BE PAID FOR IT.

   Or at least that’s how it strikes me.

2. on 26 Oct 2012 at 7:13 am   Old NFO
   
   

   Meh… No touch screen, so I’ll stay with 7Pro…

3. on 26 Oct 2012 at 7:45 am   Nathan
   
   

   I just bought four copies of Windows 7 Professional, in order to (eventually) upgrade four machines that are running XP very happily. I don’t intend to install Windows 8 on anything serious.

   When I first saw the new interface (an MSDN “first look” build), I cringed. It’s awful. It’s of no use for people who still use a mouse and keyboard. And you can’t shut it the fuck off and go back to the Win7 shell so you can actually get productive work done. Very annoying.

   Win8 is Microsoft’s next WinME/Vista.

4. on 26 Oct 2012 at 8:08 am   Tam
   
   

   Remember: Microsoft releases a functional OS only on every other attempt, so if history is any judge, this one’s doomed from the jump-off.

5. on 26 Oct 2012 at 8:35 am   Dave
   
   

   I read a prediction that in the near future, the most common operating system in the near future will be Android, not Windows. Microsoft clearly is trying to make Windows 8 an Android competitor to stave this off. Instead of firing off a first round in the Windows/Android battle, Microsoft has shot themselves in the foot.

6. on 26 Oct 2012 at 12:12 pm   Professor Hale
   
   

   Let me guess. It’s faster and more stable than ever before and is loaded with features and googaws. I think we have all heard that before. The last time I reloaded a Vista machine from scratch it took several days to reinstall the hundreds of udpates one at a time.

7. on 26 Oct 2012 at 3:08 pm   Stuart the Viking
   
   

   Yes, but I’ve heard that “Everything you do will be more fun!”

   Ok, nerd joke… if you don’t get it, quietly go on your way, nothing to see here.

   s

8. on 26 Oct 2012 at 3:31 pm   Og
   
   

   Lol. Will it be 8 times as much fun?

9. on 26 Oct 2012 at 7:17 pm   NotClauswitz
   
   

   Not even close to being an early adopter, so this is like waves on a beach in Florida to me – 3,000 miles away. Eventually perhaps in a couple years but I’m already invested and penniless so I’ll only get into it if everything else breaks.

10. on 26 Oct 2012 at 7:37 pm   Rivrdog
    
    

    Bought the gudwife a Nokia 710 phone with windows 7.5 about 9 months ago. Verily, it sucketh for her first smart ass phone, and we both hate the “active tiles”, which seem to be the gee-whiz selling point for WIN8, also.

    Bigger no-dice for me is that this HAS to “work in the Cloud”. Ummm, no. What I do on my computer STAYS in my computer.

11. on 26 Oct 2012 at 7:50 pm   blindshooter
    
    

    Windows 8 rhymes with windoze hate. That’s all I have.

12. on 26 Oct 2012 at 8:14 pm   maddmedic
    
    

    Win 8?
    Wha chu talkin’ bout?

    Linux…..
    Does what I need…

13. on 28 Oct 2012 at 10:26 pm   Morris
    
    

    I tend to be an early adopter, but no way am I getting this Win 8 abortion – certainly not while touch screens are so horrifically expensive.

    My Win 7 has been ticking along so well. No reason to upgrade.

14. on 29 Oct 2012 at 1:29 am   RobC
    
    

    Down here in Africa we have just ironed out all the Win 7 issues and started rolling out at last…

15. on 03 Dec 2012 at 8:21 am   Fi
    
    

    Long time no comment, but I have to agree with you on this one. Absolutely. My friends think I’m horrible under-connected. I tend to ignore’em.

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