Windows 8 is so ugly

I was actually offered a computer today, I almost accepted it.
Then I went to find out what it would cost me to get windows 7 on it.
They've made win 7 more expensive than win 8?
All the sudden the sales numbers make sense to me.

I ran all the test versions of Windows 8 since day1 (in a virtual partition) and decided that I would not use it. I bought an Android tablet instead - and that is a LOT of fun. Hardly use the PCs any more. I guess I will still keep them (although the wife suggested to put them on eBay), but they will stay on /7.

But I can understand that the playmobile generation may like /8.

I just finished migrating back to Windows 7. Ran Windows 8 for over a month and decided I still didn't like it.

If I'm not going to use the Modern interface then why spend a lot of time and effort to make it look and feel like Windows 7, just use Windows 7, so that is what I did.

I realise how much I really did miss the Aero Glass look. Windows 7 just looks more finished.

If I'm not going to use the Modern interface then why spend a lot of time and effort to make it look and feel like Windows 7, just use Windows 7, so that is what I did.

Exactly

I must be getting old.....

I hated Windows when I first started using it - why the hell do I need a GUI to accomplish the same things I can easily do with a few command lines? Noooo, I have to click this, click that, drag it here, drop it there.... surely this is neat stuff, but it's just a Apple knock off... and real computer people don't use Apple hardware - that's a great paltform for the artsy folks, not the hardcore developer doing 'real' work'.

Sheesh! I normally don't upgrade OSes until it's loaded on the next machine I puirchase, so I might not ever see what all of the hub-bub is all about.

I was thinking about the start button so many people twitch about and it dawned on me that the entire window is the start button, maybe that's why it's not winning any beauty contests..

Remember when big fins were all the rage on automobiles?

People still bought cars.

I'm sure that Win8 8 is great under the hood, people just don't like the styling.

Remember when big fins were all the rage on automobiles?

I certainly do! My dad had a Dodge, I can't remember the model, with wings when I was in elementary school.

Yeah, I loved those fins - especially on this 59 Caddy you show. But my real favorite was the 58 Eldorado Biarritz convertible. In the early 70s I could have bought one in California for little money but was hesitant because I did not have a place to store it.

In 1964 I bought a 59 Dodge with the fins. But that was not as pretty as the Caddies. It was just a car to go to and from the office. It had the push-button gear selection.