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Why do you prefer Windows 7 over Windows 8.1 ?
Hi,
While Windows 7 is an excellent piece of software and I might add most successful one too, Windows 8.1 is just better in every way or so I thought.
I personally hate Windows 10. I don't like telemetry, forced updates and communism but Windows 8.1 has got nothing of sorts. Like Windows 7, user have full control over the OS and it's operations. It has a solid kernal. I've been using it for six years and never seen any crash or BSOD's. It has got various major improvements, fastboot, WASAPi, DPi scaling etc that Windows 7 doesn't have. Add modern Task manager to that list as well.
I concur that Metro UI doesn't suit everybody but isn't there all sorts of utilities to accomplish Windows 7 like UI, Startisback, OldNewExplorer etc ?
So, why do you prefer Windows 7 over Windows 8.1 ?
Disclaimer: I'm not trying to convince anyone to use Windows 8.1, I just wanna explore the advantages Windows 7 may have over 8.1 that I'm not aware of.