More Than 3 Out of 4 Enthusiasts Reject Windows 8
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Personal Preference
....and you have Win7 with a little bit of Explorer improvement.
In W7, you can have the Details & Preview panes running at the same time.
I could never achieve that with the W8 Preview versions.
I suppose if a user likes the "Ribbon", they could overlook that.
Let's face it, all that the "Ribbon" does is restore the menus and toolbars, that Vista and W7 inexplicably got rid of.
IMO:
- The Ribbon is awful in everything (except Excel) so the new Explorer doesn't impress me at all
- 3rd party file managers are better (overall) than Windows Explorer (apart from "Jump List" support)
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You have to learn how to find the "Hidden Mysteries" first like an infant taking the first steps in order to find anything in 8! This is why the blog writers are having a field day bashing 8 while having praised 7 for what it is! A working OS!
Win 8 on the other hand trips the user up where you end up needing the 3rd party help of the growing number of Start menu replacement apps as well as a few others being seen like the ModernMix to windows-wise Metro apps into windows you can close with a click on the X brought back as well as being able to drag to resize each!
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You have to learn how to find the "Hidden Mysteries" first like an infant taking the first steps in order to find anything in 8! This is why the blog writers are having a field day bashing 8 while having praised 7 for what it is! A working OS!
Win 8 on the other hand trips the user up where you end up needing the 3rd party
Or blow 40-60 bucks on another big, thick "Que" book!
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Well some retail outlets like Staples Office Supply stores are offering free lessens when buying any new 8 pc be it a desktop, laptop, or tablet. They realized some help was going to be needed in order to sell anything with 8 on it as well as the OEMs coming up with their own substitutions for the Start menu most will be looking for now gone for good?!
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....and you have Win7 with a little bit of Explorer improvement.
In W7, you can have the Details & Preview panes running at the same time.
I could never achieve that with the W8 Preview versions.
I suppose if a user likes the "Ribbon", they could overlook that.
Let's face it, all that the "Ribbon" does is restore the menus and toolbars, that Vista and W7 inexplicably got rid of.
IMO:
- The Ribbon is awful in everything (except Excel) so the new Explorer doesn't impress me at all
- 3rd party file managers are better (overall) than Windows Explorer (apart from "Jump List" support)
it is possible to have the details and preview pane showing as they did in 7, here is my set up showing just that, however it did take a theme hack to do it.
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I hope Microsoft will realize the are leaving mant loyal customers scratching their heads in disbelief over what they are doing. I am begining to think current management refuses to believe they can do anythiig wrong. The only solution may be a change of management.
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Aha
it is possible to have the details and preview pane showing as they did in 7, here is my set up showing just that, however it did take a theme hack to do it.
I meant in an unmodified version of W8.
I've never installed any themes in my Windows installs.
It makes sense that some sort of hack/theme could do it. :)
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Well some retail outlets like Staples Office Supply stores are offering free lessens when buying any new 8 pc be it a desktop, laptop, or tablet. They realized some help was going to be needed in order to sell anything with 8 on it as well as the OEMs coming up with their own substitutions for the Start menu most will be looking for now gone for good?!
Yeah, I was at Staples the other day and wanted to check out their Windows 8 instructions. But at the instructions desk, the PC was disconnected and they had no instructor.
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Well some retail outlets like Staples Office Supply stores are offering free lessens when buying any new 8 pc be it a desktop, laptop, or tablet. They realized some help was going to be needed in order to sell anything with 8 on it as well as the OEMs coming up with their own substitutions for the Start menu most will be looking for now gone for good?!
Yeah, I was at Staples the other day and wanted to check out their Windows 8 instructions. But at the instructions desk, the PC was disconnected and they had no instructor.
Maybe they were attending a course on how to best use Windows 8.
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That's another thing besides the fact that no one is trying or buying Win8 at these big box stores. I'm so boggled by this I stop by every one I see to watch. One problem is that many of them don't work, including the 2-3 touchscreens which have Win8 on them.
And if you figure out how to click around on the Metro screen and find the instruction video it has such an advanced demo it only boggles you more. You'd have to have the skills of a Benihana chef to do all that touch-tossing, pinching and other finger whirly-gigging. and they're trying to sell this mostly on non-touchscreens so who made this blunder? Now watch them back away from the mess, slowly.
It only aggravates consumers who are bucking up to move from XP, or want to see what could possibly improve on Win7. Most want a competent, easily-intuitive (Win7) desktop experience, not a phone or Ipad app.