That's always the first best move unless you have a spare drive to play around with. Many only have a one OS drive system however.
I know for sure I won't be in any rush for a tablet OS to say the least but simply follow up on the latest to see where MS is headed with it. Microsoft, it's time to start talking about "Surface v2" | ZDNet
Windows 8.1 Faces October Challenge - Software - Windows 8 -Windows 8.1 Faces October Challenge
...On Monday, IDC analyst Bob O'Donnell told Computerworld that touchscreen laptops are selling even more poorly than originally forecast
...Microsoft has indicated that touch will become a standard part of the Windows experience
...If, as IDC's newest data suggests, PC users aren't particularly interested in touch, many businesses will simply upgrade to Windows 7, which gives Microsoft revenue but ultimately impedes the progress of Steve Ballmer's "One Microsoft" plan, which is built around Windows 8 and the cloud.
Analysts have suggested Windows 8.1 might offer enough to appease uneasy enterprise customers -- but these "appeasements" include the option to sever the Modern UI from the desktop. This outcome won't incite developers to create Modern UI apps, and again, does little for Microsoft's long-term goals.
...What's clear is this: So far, the market isn't interested in Windows 8, and though Windows 8.1 is better, it's not yet an obvious enough improvement to turn the tide. Based on the reports, Microsoft has given itself about eight weeks to polish its delivery before heading into two substantial tests: the holidays' consumer sales, and 2014's anticipated enterprise upgrade cycle.
The problem with touchscreens on desktop and laptop PC's is that it diverts attention from the intuitive mouse/keypad action with the kind of jarring interrupt that the Wall of Playskool Buttons does when it slams down on your work in place of the small Win7 Start menu sidebar popup. So even though it seems modern it does nothing to speed the productive work done on the desktop - like, say, the work that drives the world economy.
It is a completely different environment than a tablet, which presents its own issue when touch then requires giving way to an on-screen keyboard that is laughably unworkable for the same productive work - the kind which the world relied upon MS for with a desktop experience steadily improved to perfection in Win7.
We're still waiting to see if they wake up to realize they threw all of that to the wind in Win8, touchscreen or not.
Well spoken! The reality however is that MS has side stepped the desktop platform to wonder off on the tablet venture explaining the shift of focus from point and click to touch & swipe. One of the main reason 8, 8.1 is not seen as a larger OS on a desktop is that they stripped the usual desktop features out to suit the tablet OS they are now endorsing.
A friend with a touchscreen monitor shored that up nicely when wanting to give touchscreen a go on 7 and soon found he hated it. He preferred a productive not cumbersome desktop environment to work with. He dumped that option fast and likely won't even consider 8 or the spontaneous replacement 8.1 at any time soon!
Windows 8 touch screen PC shipments: lower than expected | BGRTouchscreen PCs not seen catching on this year
Adding touch capabilities to laptops and notebooks doesn’t seem to be a magical elixir for reviving the PC industry.
...Microsoft had hoped that Windows 8 would really start to take off once more OEMs started shipping more PCs with touch capabilities but so far that doesn’t seem to be the case.
No doubt some "bright spark" will come up with the idea that 3D will save W8.
"Just wear these goggles. It's Windows re-imagined!"
Got a newegg e-blast this afternoon offering 20$ off on W8 & Parallels together.
This reminded me I need more sawdust for the dry toilet at camp.
I don't understand how you can lose applications or files. I type exactly what I'm looking for, and I get it. I'm a bit of a naming freak, and have everything listed as what they really are. I've got nearly 20million files on my Network Drives, and my current computer has 4TB (80% Full), and I have no issues with finding programs. Compatibility is another issue, for another thread.
But in reality, I don't see why people are so Anti-Windows 8. I've said it once, and I'll say it again, IF you do not like change, DON'T UPGRADE. I'm not trying to rag on you, or be-little you, I'm just saying I don't understand it. Windows 8 was like a godsend to me, I'm tired of the same old look of Windows. Windows 98 - 7 have the same style. Windows 8 was new, and different, I enjoy the challenge it gives. I guess not everyone likes puzzles as much as I do
I am with Dreadstar I upgraded my 7 to 8 took all my settings over to the 8 and have Stardock8 for the desktop.
I just don't see what the fuss is all about I use the machine just as I did before only now it is ten times faster!
