More Than 3 Out of 4 Enthusiasts Reject Windows 8


  1. Posts : 173
    Win7 64
       #1110

    Hi all
    I wonder whether the upgrade to win8.1 will have issues with Start8??? Amongst other apps.
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  2. Posts : 1,269
    Windows 7 Ultimate Retail Box (64-bit installed) + Service Pack 1
       #1111

    I think it comes down to:

    I HAVE ZERO, that's ZILCH, NADA, NIL reasons to upgrade to 8.

    And sorry, they jacked the price way too high for a casual upgrade at this point.

    Besides history repeats itself and they were due to screw up another OS release.
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  3. Posts : 172
    Windows 10 (64 bit)
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       #1112

    Former Microsoft Windows chief: I was right to kill the Start button

    Ex-Windows chief Steven Sinofsky is “happy” with the miserable sales record of tablets and PCs running his Windows 8 baby.


    ...For the sake of history, let's remember Windows 8 hasn't just not helped revive sales of PCs - it has actually hurt them. Bob O'Donnell, IDC's program vice president for clients and display, wrote at the time of his company's predicted PC sales numbers: "It seems clear that the Windows 8 launch not only failed to provide a positive boost to the PC market, but appears to have slowed the market."


    He blamed the radical changes Microsoft had made to its UI with Metro, the removal of the familiar Start button, and the relative expense of touch PCs.
    Former Microsoft Windows chief: I was right to kill the Start button ? The Register
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  4. Posts : 8,375
    W7 Ultimate x64/W10 Pro x64/W11 Pro Triple Boot - Main PC W7 Remote PC Micro ATX W7 Pro x64/W11 Pro
       #1113

    And now you wonder why he is now the "former gui chief"?! He got out of the ring before the lions were released making himself a nice patsy to pass the blame on but now gone for MS to cover their.... ??? Let's say Win 8.1 won't be what saves their bacon in the long run! A closer look at what's new in Windows 8.1 | ZDNet So what's new? "Improved Apps"! and we know where that is going! Metro for Tablet while the desktop gets the toilet! IE 11 will allow unlimited number of tabbed windows for tabbed browsing.
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  5. Posts : 9,600
    Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit
       #1114

    Night Hawk said:
    And now you wonder why he is now the "former gui chief"?! He got out of the ring before the lions were released making himself a nice patsy to pass the blame on but now gone for MS to cover their.... ??? Let's say Win 8.1 won't be what saves their bacon in the long run! A closer look at what's new in Windows 8.1 | ZDNet So what's new? "Improved Apps"! and we know where that is going! Metro for Tablet while the desktop gets the toilet! IE 11 will allow unlimited number of tabbed windows for tabbed browsing.
    IE10 has a limit on the number of tabs?
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  6. Posts : 50
    2000Pro,XP SP3 x86..W7 on next build
       #1115

    Lady Fitzgerald said:

    IE10 has a limit on the number of tabs?
    Don't know, been using Mozilla/Netscape since converting from ST/TT though i think i was only using Lynx at the time, don't remember. Sometimes Opera, may try Chrome/Chromium someday.
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  7. Posts : 350
    Windows 7 Pro x64
       #1116

    Lady Fitzgerald said:
    Night Hawk said:
    And now you wonder why he is now the "former gui chief"?! He got out of the ring before the lions were released making himself a nice patsy to pass the blame on but now gone for MS to cover their.... ??? Let's say Win 8.1 won't be what saves their bacon in the long run! A closer look at what's new in Windows 8.1 | ZDNet So what's new? "Improved Apps"! and we know where that is going! Metro for Tablet while the desktop gets the toilet! IE 11 will allow unlimited number of tabbed windows for tabbed browsing.
    IE10 has a limit on the number of tabs?

    I haven't tried it, but the article said IE11 is not limited to 10 tabs. I've never tried to use that many tabs. I may use several at times, but not that many.
    I'm still running IE9.
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  8. Posts : 50
    2000Pro,XP SP3 x86..W7 on next build
       #1117

    I have 16 open in Firefox without lateral scrolling needed.
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  9. Posts : 415
    Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 32-bit; Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (VM).
       #1118

    Dallas 7 said:
    Lady Fitzgerald said:
    Night Hawk said:
    And now you wonder why he is now the "former gui chief"?! He got out of the ring before the lions were released making himself a nice patsy to pass the blame on but now gone for MS to cover their.... ??? Let's say Win 8.1 won't be what saves their bacon in the long run! A closer look at what's new in Windows 8.1 | ZDNet So what's new? "Improved Apps"! and we know where that is going! Metro for Tablet while the desktop gets the toilet! IE 11 will allow unlimited number of tabbed windows for tabbed browsing.
    IE10 has a limit on the number of tabs?

    I haven't tried it, but the article said IE11 is not limited to 10 tabs. I've never tried to use that many tabs. I may use several at times, but not that many.
    I'm still running IE9.


    They must mean the 'Metro. version of IE10, as I currently have 17 open in the desktop version of it on Win 8 without an issue.

    I don't use the 'Metro' version at all.


    Wenda.
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  10. Posts : 8,375
    W7 Ultimate x64/W10 Pro x64/W11 Pro Triple Boot - Main PC W7 Remote PC Micro ATX W7 Pro x64/W11 Pro
       #1119

    What they are referring to is IE 11 for 8.1 Blue being a new IE but for 8 only not for 7. IE 10 saw the 7 release made available. As for the number of tabs I never found that out by having that many tabs open since I disable tabbed browsing to start with. With the dual monitors here I move browser windows back and forth between displays often enougn when having multiple WaterFox windows open. For some reason IE 8, 9, 10 will all tend to stall when having multiple IE windows open going back the 7 RCs while everything else about 7 has been 100%!
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