The legacy of Windows 7 - last of a breed?

I think they'll continue to resist this since they revamped their marketing model to sell apps on the Metro screen. This is counter to the desktop which they can't monetize similarly since no one doing productive work realy wants their crApps.

The irony of 8 is that it is poised to ruin the desktop experience which is what MS OS's are most prized for: productive, intuitive desktop work such as what drives the world economy. This has overshadowed its performance on the platform where it belongs, touchscreens, where it actually has competitive advantages with the live tiles that beat Ipad's dead icons.

Everything I've read indicates that the rumored "Start Button" is just going to do what the Windows key on your keyboard does now. I haven't seen anything from Microsoft that even hints at resurrecting the classic start menu.

At a local computer shop, the owner runs his invoicing and sales on Win 8 computers. But he has them looking like Win 7. No tiles. No crap. And a Start button.

I didn't stop to ask him how. but if he can do it, so can anyone else.

lhorwinkle said:

At a local computer shop, the owner runs his invoicing and sales on Win 8 computers. But he has them looking like Win 7. No tiles. No crap. And a Start button.

I didn't stop to ask him how. but if he can do it, so can anyone else.

But why bother?

Lady Fitzgerald said:

lhorwinkle said:

At a local computer shop, the owner runs his invoicing and sales on Win 8 computers. But he has them looking like Win 7. No tiles. No crap. And a Start button.

I didn't stop to ask him how. but if he can do it, so can anyone else.

But why bother?

IMO, it maybe probably due to arguably noticable performance improvements like better RAM management, less GPU strain due to removal of Aero theme or even the "ribbon" Windows explorer interface.

IMO, Windows 8 forcing desktop composition to be always enabled always breaks old program compatibility. That's why I still choose Windows 7 despite 8's arguably better performance. If Windows 8 has a feature to turn off metro, charms bar and hot corner menus, and the most important for me "disable desktop composition" to enable playing old games, I will definitely consider upgrading.

Lady Fitzgerald said:

But why bother?

There is only one for me anyway, which is the changes to the Licensing Conditions introduced with the System Builder License. Being able to reinstall it on other hardware unlike the OEM License of Windows 7 and being much cheaper then the W7 retail version.

However that only brings it to my consideration as long as I can completely hide the Unnecessary, Ugly Metro interface. I have no interest in walled garden apps or the push to Cloud computing on a Desktop PC.

Golden said:

alphanumeric said:

Everything I've read indicates that the rumored "Start Button" is just going to do what the Windows key on your keyboard does now. I haven't seen anything from Microsoft that even hints at resurrecting the classic start menu.

I thought that was supposed to be the function of the the start button on the new Windows 8 mouse?

Same thing, just another Windows key/button.