Windows 8 is so ugly

DeaconFrost said:

The lock screen is customizable, from a background standpoint, and is only one mouse click until you are greeted with the login prompt. I don't see the big deal about the new style...like why it's good or bad. Windows 7's is just a blue screen with a login prompt in the middle...still nothing flashy or fancy. I don't see what there is to complain about. Instead of a blue screen, you get to choose from your own wallpapers.

Maguscreed said:

More power to you, this too me is starting to seem time to change professions again.

That's a defeatist attitude that I see posted every single time a new version of Windows is released, even back to the days of Windows NT's release, when people threatened to change careers since it didn't include plug and play.

Actually I welcomed both vista and win 7 with open arms when they came along, even though I later did decide I didn't like vista, that was a long time ago when drivers were issue and I had to wait 6 months just to get my sli to work with it.

No this is a departure from what windows has been since well 3.1
I have no doubt it will work wonderfully for a lot of people with touch screen portable devices. I just don't want it anywhere near my desktop or my work machine.

gregrocker said:

We shouldn't lose track of the fact as MS did that Win7 was their greatest achievement and likely the finest OS ever.

... then came Windows 8ME.

DeaconFrost said:

Maguscreed said:

I have no doubt it will work wonderfully for a lot of people with touch screen portable devices. I just don't want it anywhere near my desktop or my work machine.

Maybe a career change is in the cards, because one thing I've learned in my 16 years of I.T. is that closing my mind to something new only hurts me. With one simple 3rd party app (we can debate the fact the Start Menu should have been included, or given as an option), Windows 8 works identically to Windows 7.

Exactly. I used a small app to install the Windows 7 start menu from the installation DVD and now Windows 8 works just like a more secure version of Windows 7.

DeaconFrost said:

To me, after using it for about a month, it gives me everything I love in Windows 7, just a little faster. It's more customizable than Windows 7.

DeaconFrost said:

edwar said:

I don't see how you can say Win 8 is more customizable then Win 7.

Off the bat, you have your choice between two UIs. That alone is more than the one we've always had.

A choice between:

• A GUI that a lot of people don't need/want
• The "old" GUI that MS deliberately crippled

You can't change the:

• Font Face
• Font Size (I don't mean dpi)
• Font Style
• Icon Size
• Icon Spacing

Windows 8 is less customisable than W7, unless you use 3rd party utilities.
In W7, I didn't "need" to use 3rd party software to set it up the way I wanted it set up.

DeaconFrost said:

Overall, my only complaint would be the system should ask or detect if you have a touch screen, and alter some processes accordingly.

gregrocker said:

I couldn't agree more, Deacon. This would have been fine if it would install automatically with start button/menu for desktops, touch GUI for tablets and touchscreens.

Most people seem to agree with that idea (except MS of course). :)

We have Windows 8 because Microsoft is in the business of making money. Windows 7 was a great money maker for MS but it's peak is gone so they need a new revenue stream.

I think their hope is if it's different enough people will buy it. If it was just Windows 7 Plus people would not buy it.

I don't agree with this, just my thoughts on why we have Windows 8.

I think their hope is if it's different enough people will buy it. If it was just Windows 7 Plus people would not buy it.

It worked on me.