Windows 8 gonna suck

[DainBramaged]

the age of dumb comes to the computer.

CLEAN interface Microsoft, fuck you if you think we want clutter and bullshit, fuck you.


Gonna be worse than Vista, gonna be Millenium all over again......assholes in Washington think they have a clue.


And I'm a devoted follower you bunch of numbnuts.

Make it all fucking stupid like the Huffington Poo, BLARING headlines with no substance until you dug through 14 pages of advertisements and links to read the story.


Fuck you Microsoft. XP is still the favored system, you got it right with Windows 7 now you're fucking around again, fuck you Microsoft.





:argh: :argh: :argh: :argh:

[woo me with science]

1. LOL.

I read about five reviews this morning, and yours is the best one.

[DainBramaged]

13. BOLD

Right


people using PC's don't want BOLD. In my office (and hundreds of thousands of others) people want function not the latest on the Kardashians........BOLD bullshit.


•Fast and fluid user experience
•Immersive and full-screen
•Touch first with full keyboard and mouse
•Web of apps working together
•Experience for all PC devices and architectures
All equaling bullshit.


Web of apps trying to advertise all at once, immersive my ass, cluttered, fast and fluid, guess what, a WIN 7 with an ssd boots to desktop in less than 20 seconds without hibernating, BOLD my ass, experience for all PC devices and architectures, what the fuck does that mean, BOLD, touch first, what are we doing, making a giant phone? These fuckers haven't even gotten DIrect X 11 right yet.

Bullshit, thank God for multiple copies of XP and 7.

[RandySF]

2. Once you go Mac, you never go back. :)

[meegbear]

5. Speak for yourself!

[DainBramaged]

6. I got a Mac, sits in the corner lonely and unused

[RebelOne]

20. I have a Mac Min,i and it is used every day.

I have had PCs and had multiple problems. Since i have had a Mac I have had few problems.

[DainBramaged]

25. I have last year's Mini, I have mega PCs for gaming, the Mac is weak

never a PC problem. But then again it's what I do. The new Mac mini is a step up with a I5 quad, but you just can't put good graphics in such a small package.

[Mr Deltoid]

44. Macs suck

Too many menu's to click through to get to anything.

[RebelOne]

3. Get a Mac. Problem solved. n/t

[graywarrior]

4. It never ends, does it?

First they addict us, then they sell us inferior drugs. Bastards.

[meegbear]

7. Windows is the Central Square of technology

[DainBramaged]

8. Windows 8 is a piece of shit, I don't care about USB 3, I don't care about news and Facebook

like the microwave, computes are now appliances. Putting lipstick on a pig doesn't make it a cow.

[NYC_SKP]

41. Or, they introduce even more powerful drugs just when you've leveled out.

For me it's solid state drives on a couple Macs I just got.

No more spinning disk things for storing date and running the thing.

Solid State!

Like crack!!!

:P

[chrisa]

50. Not the case with operating systems

People will just do like they did with Vista - say screw it and not upgrade.

[MineralMan]

9. Don't buy it. Problem solved.

What's your point and how does it fit in GD, really?

[meegbear]

10. Oh Whaa, whaa, fucking whaa

[adhd_what_huh]

11. I like the part where you said fuck and then the other part where you said numb-nuts

thanks

[NYC_SKP]

12. I liked XP and NT, back in the day.

eom.

[ladywnch]

15. same here...... NT was the best product they ever put out

I know they built either XP or Vista off of the NT platform, but they got too 'cute' with it. Just give me NT again.



PS does anyone know how to kill the 'auto scroll' feature in Vista?.....you know, the one that changes your cursor to two arrows and it just starts scrolling whether you wanted it to or not? I HATE THAT DAMN THING!!!!!!!!

[Angleae]

38. Both are NT systems

Win2000 = NT 5
XP = NT 5.1
Vista = NT 6

[Lone_Star_Dem]

14. From what I've read I agree. Unless you "compute" on a tablet or maybe your phone.

I don't really care, though. I'll skip it and stay with Windows 7. I kept XP for ages because they were pumping out junk.

The way it looks now, and yes, I know it's too early to tell, I don't see business rushing to upgrade as it sits now.

[DainBramaged]

19. The making stupid of electronics, Apple won with the iPad and iPhone, Microsoft thinks they

can compete with junk software.


My friends are laughing their asses off at this piece of shit too.

[LynneSin]

16. Windows seems to go between a really great system to a really bad one and back

Windows 95 - eh'
Windows 98 - pretty decent
Windows ME - SUCKY
Windows XP - Yeah
Windows Vista - Ugh
WIndows 7 - Woohoo

We're due for another suck attack

I'm probably missing some versions in there.

[DainBramaged]

22. Windows Dos and 3.1 were great in the day

[arikara]

37. I liked NT the best

when that one became obsolete and I got a look at the Mr's new Vista I switched over to mac. And he switched back to XP.

[Wolf Frankula]

43. Windows OSs are like Star Trek Movies,

The even numbered ones rock, the odd numbered ones suck.

Wolf Frankula

[Xithras]

17. What's wrong with it?

I've liked the Metro interface since it first debuted on the Zune, and there's a reason why Microsoft has duplicated and expanded it into media center and the XBox over the ensuing years. There's also a reason that Android and iPhone developers have created Metro-style UI mods for those platforms. Metro may, quite simply, be the one truly great idea that Microsoft has ever had. It's simple, clear, and incredibly fast to navigate through. Because it was originally designed to operate independent of any particular input, it's also a very organic move away from the mouse-driven hierarchical menus that have dominated Windows in the past.

I'm looking forward to firing up a VM with the developer preview tonight.

[madrchsod]

18. my son started developing when nt came out.

he said 7 was the best one so far. he`ll probably pass on this one because he has job and a wife that takes up his time.

although i dislike some features on 7 it`s the best so far. 8 will probably be another vista.

[dtexdem]

21. I loved XP -- but my university cut off my connection to my PC that still runs it.

After all, can't support old tech, even if it actually works, unlike the new crap.

[KeepItReal]

23. Running Mac OS and Windows XP using Parallels on a MacBook Pro stress free

Parallels even throws in some Windows anti-virus for my XP install.


BTW my MacBook was stolen and I was able to restore every Mac and windows program and file to my new one using Apple Time Machine.

I can't give a higher endorsement.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

24. I haven't seen other Win8 reviews yet. Not to worry, I won't browbeat w/Mac & Linux

But I am curious as to how Windows 8 will be received in this brave new world we find ourselves living in.

I'm a network engineer by trade, which isn't important, except by way of explaining that I have lots of different devices that will connect to the Internet. Like many others, I have a smart phone, and I do a lot of web browsing on it. I also have an iPad. I didn't even think I wanted an iPad, but this came as a gift, and I love it. It's more typical for me to read DU sitting in a chair on the patio now than it is for me to be sitting at my desktop PC reading.

There are reasons I still need MS Windows around, to be sure. Primarily, I use it for Photoshop and Lightroom. It's true that these are available on the Mac platform, but they're expensive, and I'm invested on the MS side of the house. I also use my PC for storage--it's bristling with internal and external hard drives, and serves as the repository for all the video and music in the house. Of course, I don't need Microsoft products to maintain this storage. I could just as easily have a large data store on a linux box, or on a Mac, or (more likely) I could just have network-attached storage. In my case, I'm still using Windows for this purpose because it's there, it's available, and it's easy.

All this leads up to my question: who will be buying Windows 8, and why? I know that lots of corporate IT departments are heavily invested in Windows, and they'll end up with upgrades a year or so after Windows 8 comes out. This is inertia--that is, there's no new and compelling reason to buy the latest version of Windows, but inertia has many corporations headed in that direction anyway. It's what they've always done, and they're already pointed in that direction, so it's easiest to just keep going. I think that will account for a lot of sales. Another big chunk will come from PC manufacturers who strike a deal with MS to have their operating system preinstalled on the hardware.

If there are other large Windows constituencies, I'd like to know about them. Maybe I just don't have the "vision thing", but I'm not seeing a compelling reason for large numbers of people to run out and buy Windows. To the contrary, I see fewer and fewer "eyeball-hours" spent on Microsoft Windows, in favor of smart phones and tablets.

[DainBramaged]

27. A few months agoI read 60+% of corporate users still used XP on the desktop

We JUST migrated to WIN 7 Pro last week across all departments, a lot of compatibility problems with older software we use but we're working around it.

[quinnox]

26. I'm with Vista and won't move to Win 7 already

Win 8? After seeing the shit Microsoft did to Windows in Win 7, there is no chance I would ever ditch Vista at this point!

[EOTE]

32. Whaaaa? Windows 7 is loads less system intensive and more reliable than Vista.

Windows 7 will run fine on 1 gig while Vista often struggles with 2. Driver support and reliability is much improved with Windows 7 too. Vista is widely considered to be one of MS's greatest mistakes. You are one of the very few people I've heard who's reluctant to upgrade to 7.

[quinnox]

35. Yea, I've become a Vista diehard!

See, I read about how Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, decided to change things around all over the place in Win 7, and then call it a new edition of Windows!

There is no reason why I should have to learn a new way of navigating the windows system because Microsoft wants to slap a fresh coat of paint on Windows and call it new!

Ok, you are probably right that it does work better in the drivers and the technical improvements, but I don't want to lose what is left of Win XP, I already lost some of it by moving to Vista, and I know they completely ripped it out in Win 7.

Win 8 sounds like it has been completely dumbed down and the process has been completed.

[EOTE]

36. If you can navigate in XP, you can navigate in 7.

Really, there are very few cosmetic differences between Vista and 7 (although I do think 7 looks better, especially with themes and Aero turned on). The biggest differences for the average user come from driver stability, security and system requirements. Windows 7 simply runs much better on equivalent hardware than Vista does, it also runs more stably and with fewer driver issues. I'm typically an MS supporter, I've used their products all my life and will continue to do so because of my career. However, I think they made some pretty big mistakes with Vista, though a lot of them have been cleared up with service packs.

[DainBramaged]

28. This is a paragraph from the tech writer at M$NBC that says it all

While writing this column on a Windows laptop, I had to reboot because my machine froze. This reinforced my strong belief that Microsoft’s ability to keep the PC alive doesn’t depend on the company’s ability to wow with touch or compelling apps. It comes down to whether Microsoft can convince consumers that they can continue to enjoy the PC’s versatility without the traditional PC baggage. That they made the right call in scaling down their desktop OS instead of starting from scratch like Apple did with iOS and the iPad. There’s a fine line between the best of both worlds and a world of hurt.


And if they made their OS secure there wouldn't be a need for a cartoon operating system.


http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/09/7692111-can-windows-8-save-the-pc

[Drew Richards]

40. Most local gov's still run NT servers and XP desktops

Because they are at least half/way stable...

7 is nice I run Ultimate server but they tried to make it an APPLE OS clone so I hate having to screw around with multiple folders just to launch stuff or have to "customize" every application so I can find it...

NT, XP good, Vista = suck, 7 stable so far, ...win 8 = the new vista...forgetaboutit.

[Webster Green]

29. I thought it looked pretty cool.

I have Windows 7 on four computers and I think it's great. Like you said, they did get it right with that one. XP is probably in use on more computers than W7, but I don't know why it would be favored over W7, other than not wanting to spend the money to upgrade to it.

I watched a Microsoft video about W8, and it looked nice to me. :shrug:

That doesn't mean I'm going to be in a rush to upgrade all my stuff though.

[dixiegrrrrl]

30. What is this "windows" whereof you speak?

:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:


I am so glad Mr. dixie talked me into using Linux.

[malaise]

31. I love Windows 7

Not switching

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

33. For clutter and bullshit, Microsoft Bob was tops!

I haven't really looked into Windows 8, but maybe my Windows XP will work for a few more years.

I have "apps" that won't run on higher versions of Windows.



:hi:

[hobbit709]

39. I've got one app that was for Win3.1 and 95. i works on XP and even 7 x64.

[wizstars]

47. How could we forget BOB???!? (Lord KNOWS I've TRIED!.....)

[EOTE]

34. Are you beta testing it?

I did beta testing for Windows 7 and I thought it was great. I was holding out high hopes for 8, I think it could be great so long as they don't abandon what's already good about 7. Are you going by actual experience or just by what you've read so far?

[DainBramaged]

42. I passed.

I did 7 and actually did a play by play as I installed it for the first time right here in GD about 2 years ago.


I will laugh at this piece of shit if it comes out. It's a whole new ball game and it doesn't use the WIN 7 kernel.

[Nye Bevan]

45. I wonder if the systray icons will finally stop randomly disappearing?

Naaaah, probably not.

[Logical]

46. LOL.....one of the most worthless posts ever. Congrats!

[wizstars]

48. I'll stick w/ XP until I have to bury it, then I'm moving to Linux!

My only regret is that I can't still run Win3.1--the last OS before Microsoft becam a profit machine. more's the pity...............

[Modern_Matthew]

49. I like its minimalisitcness (what a non-word, LOL). nt

[gtar100]

51. Seriously folks, my preference is far better than your preference

and far better than that other company came up with. I'm able to work with it and anyone who can't really has settled for worse than second best. And damn them for not getting it right the first time. They should have talked to me first!

[Odin2005]

52. I like Win7, I'll stick with it.

[area51]

53. If it's Windows,

it's sucking. :evilgrin: