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Pab Sungenis

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5. You don't change your UI without taking some risks.

Reply to originalpckelly (Original post)

Sun Dec 30, 2012, 09:44 AM

Dec 2012

The change from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 was shocking but welcome because it was a big improvement. Plus it was still similar in nature to the previous version (desktop with icons and windows).

Windows 8 completely takes everything that the Windows experience has stood for and thrown it out the window, no pun intended. No more desktop, no more menu, no more windowed applications. It's going back to the days of DOS and Desqview with a graphic interface to facilitate switching.

It's not "Windows 8," it's "Tiles 1." Or maybe we should call it what it really is, "Bob 2."

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Yes, dears, it's official Winbloze H8 is worse than Vista. [View all] originalpckelly Dec 2012 OP

So you're telling me not to utilize my "free" windows 8 upgrade. ileus Dec 2012 #1

95 was OK... originalpckelly Dec 2012 #3

95 OSR2 was OK, the original one sucked if you had an AMD cpu. hobbit709 Dec 2012 #7

See that's why you shouldn't have been a cheap ass and gone for a pentium. originalpckelly Dec 2012 #9

My Windows 95 machine is still running behind me right now. Festivito Dec 2012 #16

Who could have seen THAT coming? nt DCKit Dec 2012 #2

I know, especially when they changed the UI that had been around for 17 years. originalpckelly Dec 2012 #6

Hell, I still have unopened copies of XP stashed, along with 7 hobbit709 Dec 2012 #4

Vista was bad because of how UAC worked in that version... originalpckelly Dec 2012 #8

That and the fact a lot of drivers wouldn't work. hobbit709 Dec 2012 #13

You don't change your UI without taking some risks. Pab Sungenis Dec 2012 #5

There's still a desktop rbixby Dec 2012 #12

Which is, at its core theKed Dec 2012 #21

From what I've seen though, visually it's incredibly cluttered. Having 20 colored files laid out on KittyWampus Dec 2012 #22

Someone put this up a while back..... I run Linux so I don't have a use however this does seem 2on2u Dec 2012 #32

Ugh theKed Dec 2012 #34

Buy Windows 8.. sendero Dec 2012 #10

I love Win8 rbixby Dec 2012 #11

Me, too, and you can download "start buttons". GoCubsGo Dec 2012 #15

I was one of the Windows 8 haters, until I actually started using it Hugabear Dec 2012 #14

The reasons people are giving for why they don't like it Occulus Dec 2012 #17

People don't like change mythology Dec 2012 #18

I don't like the aspect of it Aerows Dec 2012 #20

Is there just the one tile screen? I'd be way happier having several tile screens KittyWampus Dec 2012 #23

You can get rid of the ones you don't want/need Hugabear Dec 2012 #30

I hope the next generation has ways to further customize those tiles. How they look and how they KittyWampus Dec 2012 #33

Because it's horrible Aerows Dec 2012 #19

Can they make Windows 9 just like the old win XP but with modern features Rosa Luxemburg Dec 2012 #24

This is why their monopolistic practices are so bad. Odin2005 Dec 2012 #25

windows is not a monopoly, there are many alternatives nt msongs Dec 2012 #29

Not really. dogknob Dec 2012 #35

I'm sticking with 7 until they pry it from my cold, dead hands! dorkulon Dec 2012 #26

Heck, that's how I feel about XP! arcane1 Dec 2012 #28

Win8 is good on a tablet and not so good at first on a desktop. Warren Stupidity Dec 2012 #27

I find it to be less than completely stable Aerows Dec 2012 #31

Not Vista...MILLENIUM! Rex Dec 2012 #36