Windows 8

[Prof]

For the first time in my long life, I actually STOOD IN LINE for technology--at Stonebriar for a Microsoft "Surface" Tablet. First day it came out-2.5 hour wait. I have played with it this week and can say that Windows 8 is nothing but Windows 7 with a turbo. Different experience (touch screen), but same desktop, Hotmail, EBay...

My preference would be to wait on Microsoft upgrades until mid-November when they roll out the "full " version, the "Pro". If you are close to Stonebriar, go up to the Microsoft "store" (kiosk where Starbucks used to be in the middle of the mall) and play with the sample devices. Definitely a different experience.

As far as my Surface Tablet goes, the price is right for a tablet with a strong smartphone microprocessor running Micorsoft Office 2013. That's all I need.

By the way: You cannot install your own programs on the Surface (Dragon Viavoice, Adobe Pro, OBD II ecu tuning software, etc. NONE!) What you see is all you will be able to use.

Regards,
Paul

[HawaiiZoomsss]

I'm with Sammm, I'll wait till all or most of the bugs get worked out thru real user testing. Don't enjoy being of the bleeding edge of technology, it hurts too much...

[gabkwong]

I wonder I can switch back to Windows7 if I am not happy with the 8 w/o much difficult!

[altiain]

Historically it hasn't been real easy to "downgrade" back to an older version of Windows...

[sammm]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...view,3334.html

[p4R4d0x]

As for using 8 on a normal desktop PC with no touch interface and typical KB/M input devices, it's kinda akward and counter intuitive. Charms, semi-central options for whatever you hope to get to configure, tile start screen vs actual menu, or being relegated to constantly searching for the app you want...... meh and barf.

The desktop shoud not be an app with a dumbed down task bar where someone has to constantly jump back out to the tile screen to call up another app. Also I should not have to go to task manager to find out what apps are still running in the background. At least OSx has the little light under the icons to let you know the app is still running. (For those of you that have thought I hate Macs, I don't, I think OSx a great Unix GUI)

I for one will not be getting 8 and am perfectly happy with 7 on all my devices. Why would I wnat to spend any money or time to get less of a usable PC.

I get Win8 for free (student ) and agree with everything here. I played with it for a week or so on a virtual machine, and I'm not impressed. I get it for free and haven't updated my primary PC to it, so that should tell you if I think it's worth paying for

Windows 7 works great. Windows 8 felt like they tried to make it 'pretty' by globbing a bunch of makeup on it. Turns out that technique doesn't work for operating systems either.

[POS Racing]

Microsoft has a $39.99 upgrade deal going for a limited time and the Barrage of commercials by Microsoft is making me want to buy!

For you TCB types the cheap price goes away on the 31st.

I went ahead and upgrade 2 of my office PC's to Windows 8 so far so good.



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