Windows 7: "Well below expectations" Windows 8 sales

gregrocker · 18 Nov 2012

Our role here will be more important than ever to reassert Windows 7 supremacy. Backing that is the unvarnished fact it is the best OS ever, still virtually in its infancy with anything worthwhile from 8 only needing importation via SP2.

Bookmark: ~~Down~~Upgrade Windows 8 to Windows 7

or just turn off Secure Boot and Bypass UEFI altogether: Bypass UEFI to Install WIn7

beauparc · 18 Nov 2012

I reckon Layback Bear is right. Surely to God someone should have realised that forcing an idiotic touchscreen on desktop users would alienate most people who have been happily using the desktop in Windows 7.

I would like to upgrade but I can't really be bothered wasting time making the OS run the way I want, not the way some spotty faced little herbert in programming thinks.

It can't be beyond Microsoft's ability to allow me to choose between a bunch of children's tiles or a plain desktop during installation.

Please MS, just let me boot directly to the desktop and I will upgrade tomorrow.

whs · 18 Nov 2012

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some spotty faced little herbert in programming

gregrocker · 18 Nov 2012

This solves most of the ills, grafting on your same Windows 7 Start button and Menu, while toggling off (until you turn it back on) the Metro button wall with crApps: Windows 7 Start Menu for Windows 8

Then these replica gadgets replace another popular desktop feature inexplicably left out: 8GadgetPack - Gadgets for Windows 8

I cannot decide if it's actually faster without Metro loaded into RAM as stated. It seems to perform the same as Windows 7 but without the classier transparency.

**x BlueRobot** · 19 Nov 2012

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some spotty faced little herbert in programming

I do programming too!

DavidW7ncus · 19 Nov 2012

Maybe just a rumor or maybe the message is being heard...

With Sinofsky Gone, Start Menu Could Return to Windows 8

smarteyeball · 19 Nov 2012

Quote: Originally Posted by DavidW7ncus

Maybe just a rumor or maybe the message is being heard...

With Sinofsky Gone, Start Menu Could Return to Windows 8

With classic shell, it did and so did it make 8 useable.

MS is a bit of a rudderless ship in the leader departments.

Layback Bear · 19 Nov 2012

Quote: Originally Posted by gregrocker

This solves most of the ills, grafting on your same Windows 7 Start button and Menu, while toggling off (until you turn it back on) the Metro button wall with crApps: Windows 7 Start Menu for Windows 8

Then these replica gadgets replace another popular desktop feature inexplicably left out: 8GadgetPack - Gadgets for Windows 8

I cannot decide if it's actually faster without Metro loaded into RAM as stated. It seems to perform the same as Windows 7 but without the classier transparency.

Just my point Greg. With 3rd party programs Windows 8 can be made more PC friendly. That should of been done by Microsoft from the get go.

whs · 19 Nov 2012

Yeah, but if I have to twist and tweak Windows 8 for getting Windows 7, what's the point in having it. Might as well stay on /7. And how many people are skilled enough to do the tweaking correctly.

gregrocker · 19 Nov 2012

Quote: Originally Posted by whs

Yeah, but if I have to twist and tweak Windows 8 for getting Windows 7, what's the point in having it. Might as well stay on /7. And how many people are skilled enough to do the tweaking correctly.

Exactly. Any actual improvements like with Explorer can be slipped into Windows 7 SP2. It can then remain the desktop OS. This is their way out. Stop trying to pry Windows 7 off of PC's and out of users hands and finally recognize they have the best OS ever, still young and wildly popular.

Win8 is for tablets and phones, unless you want it on a desktop.

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