More Than 3 Out of 4 Enthusiasts Reject Windows 8

SIW2 said:

Maybe because you do buy our products and we will make sure you are using them as we intended.

I forgot about that one.

Hi there
DRM is a desperately flawed business model these days -- it can even INHIBIT business -- for example if I want to buy an e-book from Kindle (Amazon) - but eventually want to read it on a SONY PRS e-reader or even a NOOK why should I be prevented from doing so -- after all If I buy a physical book it doesn't have a restriction for example that I can't read it in bed but can when I'm sitting on the bog. So the DRM could in fact LIMIT the consumers choice of where they get their books / music etc. from.

(The device might also break / get lost / stolen etc etc -- so you might buy a better value product to replace your old one -- so should your entire library now become useless).

Things like Calibre fortunately convert one format to another and removing DRM from e-books is simplicity itself -- but if you DON'T know how to do this (and I'm not saying here how to do it BTW) then your entire e-book buying range will be restricted to the particular store that the device is "tethered to" -- apart from Sony who use the fairly open standard EPUB.

I have always thought this , kindles don't last much over a couple of years and the idea of having to constantly replace our libraries whether it be books or music every couple of years is completely infeasible I mean who has the money to do that? DRM just punishes people who buy the content legally and don't pirate it.
It seems we are losing more and more privacy under the illusion it's in our benifit and by giving up our rights to privacy company's can provide us with a better service well that's what they tell us anyway . If we actually saw all information all these company's had on us we proberly would die of shock and never go on-line again. This Microsoft patent to me anyway seems very worrying indeed I already feel like I live in a glass bowl so much so I've started disconnecting from the internet unless I'm actually doing something on-line because so much software does already 'phone home' and I'm not quite sure why some of it does?

King Arthur said:

^ I stopped taking that article seriously when it mentioned the "PC is dying" and that tablets/smartphones can match them in productivity.

Indeed.
Credibility lost.
There were a few "misguided individuals" in the comments, who seemed to have the same loopy idea.

Ha... Tablets replacing PC's... yeah, in a couple of years maybe...

Windows 8 desktop is as useful as W7 desktop, the start menu issue is not a problem for many people.
As with every new OS, there are a couple new/different things but, once you learn them, it's all easy.
Just my opinion, I'm using 8 mainly and still have 7 in dual boot.

Just use the OS you like and feel comfortable with, it's not a bad/good situation, just preference.