More Than 3 Out of 4 Enthusiasts Reject Windows 8

essenbe said:

My comment was not directed at you, John. It was just a general comment because it seems that's what most people are doing. If you are satisfied with Windows 8, by all means use it. I was just making a general comment.

Well I got it wrong then Steve mine were just upgrades and despite the general consensus of 8 being some two headed monster I still use both OS's and I think if anyone tries what I did they would see what I mean.
It only cost me $55 to do it and like I said was just an experiment on the main laptop and it now outperforms my Ivy Bridge with 7 by booting to login in 7 secs and login to desktop in the blink of an eye or however long it takes to type the PW shut down is almost instantaneous. Before itr was making a cup of coffee wile waiting.

You only need an old drive clone the 7 to it upgrade it and change the start up menu. If anyone has done this already and doesn't like it then all well and good - don't use it isn't rocket science. You just go back to 7 and carry on as was. My argument is that unless you try it then you either had a bad experience or are just too blinkered to try.
In my humble opinion despite what you think about Microsoft I reckon they are learning a fair bit out of this issue and well if that results in a system that eventually is better than 7 or 8 then is that not a good thing??

Reboot speed, even from a hybrid form of hibernate, or whatnot, isn't important to me. My computer is on crunching for scientific research, hosting servers, running programs off a RAM drive, and so on almost 24/7 for weeks at a time. Likewise, I don't really have much need or use for an SSD, though I plan on eventually picking one up. Windows 8, not so much. It's basically a useless OS to me with features that I specifically don't want. Because of those features, I don't want to buy Windows 8 nor support the direction Microsoft is taking the Windows OS. I'm sticking with 7, because it works well for me, and I don't like the GUI of 8. Pretty straightforward rationale as I see it.

If other people like 8, or don't dislike it, then that's their opinion, and they are of course justified in acting accordingly. It also makes sense that the issues other people have with Windows 8 likely wouldn't be issues for them, and therefor those issues might not make sense to them, nor seem justified.

Wrend said:

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If other people like 8, or don't dislike it, then that's their opinion, and they are of course justified in acting accordingly. It also makes sense that the issues other people have with Windows 8 likely wouldn't be issues for them, and therefor those issues might not make sense to them, nor seem justified.

Except it is important for me that the laptop comes out of hibernation quickly and like the dual-interface, desktop and start up in that order...

I think you missed my point. A Dell Windows 7 and an OEM Windows 7 is the same OS, just with the junk taken out. And they don't need to buy an OEM version, a standard ISO of windows 7 will validate on a Dell system, with their COA key.

essenbe said:

I think you missed my point. A Dell Windows 7 and an OEM Windows 7 is the same OS, just with the junk taken out. And they don't need to buy an OEM version, a standard ISO of windows 7 will validate on a Dell system, with their COA key.

Ah,yes!.....showing my age....pre-download from M$, you know but some I've met don't even know
how to burn, like my neighbour, teach him something one day......then forgets the next, in fact, he bought a tablet at the beginning of summer.


EDIT: Well, it is also my own personal habits over the years, every service pack that's been released
I've ordered the optical media because I like it in a form that can't be erased even though it will just sit on the shelf, once used/slipstreamed.