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Ok so I got the new Windows 8 and I thought I would post what I think of it so far. The load was simple and easy. I despise the new screen when you load it. It's a big mistake by Microsoft. Good on a tablet, bad on a desktop or laptop. If you had a touch screen the tiles would be big and easy to touch. On a non-touch screen it's a mistake. The new theme is nice and the colors are nice. The lack of the start button also a big mistake. I like the new task manager. The feel is much faster. Again for the select group of people it's good. I also like the nice restore feature that should had came loaded since xp. As far as a tech position goes I think it will be a nightmare. Lack of telling people where to go. Lack of a safe-mode? The built in Microsoft security essentials is a nice touch. I bet other anti-virus companies don't like this. But the number one saving grace of it is http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/ This make it back to normal. This option should had been included in the OS like it was in the Beta. Do I think Windows 8 will do good in the market? No I think it will be the next Vista. Do I like it? Yes but only with the program listed above. If you are running Windows 7 there is no need to upgrade. This will fail in a business environment also. I would love to see a bank running this lol. Anyways that's just my personal opinion. Incoming ndboarder in 5.4.3.2.1...
 
Speaking of banks, I really can't envision us going to Windows 8 on our desktops. Surely not anytime soon. Hopefully they come to their senses and make a more business style OS in the future.
 
By the time you guys are ready it will probably be the next windows OS. I can see most businesses skipping this release.
 
We'll see.... Why do you hate the start screen? I don't really get it. It's the start button, but on a full screen. It is great for touch, that's for sure, and that's the intent. You can get used to it with a mouse and keyboard. Also, for tech people WindowsKey + X is a shortcut to keep handy. There is no need to put back the start button though. Install the Win 8 apps you want and get used to the start screen. It will take getting used to, but I've come to like it. For your classic windows applications, pin the ones you commonly use to the task bar. The removal of start is something I've seen coming since they made the ability to pin to task bar. Then use Win+X if you want to get to some of the admin pieces easily, and use Win+Q to do a quick search for any other application you might install, but don't want pinned to the start page or the task bar. Resist change all you want, but I don't see it going back. I seem to recall similar hate messages from people about Vista, not because of the perf stuff, but initially because it was soo much different than Win XP. Guess what, you got used to it and Win 7 looks exactly the same and now you say that's the best thing ever... Give it time
 
First off I know key commands, but the older generation doesn't. When i tell my mom to ctrl+c and then crtl+v something they just don't understand. This generation is mouse driven. Pinning something to the start screen just is basically a shortcut. Even when I do that it still has to drop me to the desktop then load it. Kinda point less. Why do two steps when you can just do one?
 
First off I know key commands, but the older generation doesn't. When i tell my mom to ctrl+c and then crtl+v something they just don't understand. This generation is mouse driven. Pinning something to the start screen just is basically a shortcut. Even when I do that it still has to drop me to the desktop then load it. Kinda point less. Why do two steps when you can just do one?
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Well... you can just pin to the start screen then. I guess I'm used to generally working with two monitors and I have pinned apps and some commonly used applications on the start screen and the others pinned to task bar. With dual monitors you see the modern UI on one and the classic desktop on the other. Though you can easily move things around or have classic desktop on both.Alternately you can easily use the Win key to quickly switch between the modern and classic. People may not be used to using that key on a keyboard, but on the tablets it's a button right there to press on the screen that people will see and use, either to switch or to get back to the modern layout from within an app if they don't want to close it.

There's definitely a learning curve, but you might as well learn, because whether there's a Windows 9 OS in 6 months or 3 years from now, it will still have the same UI as Windows 8. The idea is to have one UI across devices. PC, tablet, and phone. This isn't likely to change. Also, as people move to new PCs they'll all start ending up with touch screens, though it will be a while for that and while it will be very highly used on laptops/tablets I don't see desktops moving from mouse/keyboard real soon.

 
A recent report from technology research firm Gartner predicts 90% of enterprises will wait to upgrade to Windows 8 until 2015. Companies that depend heavily on mobile devices might be the exception.
 
A recent report from technology research firm Gartner predicts 90% of enterprises will wait to upgrade to Windows 8 until 2015. Companies that depend heavily on mobile devices might be the exception.
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Typo? First thing I found indicated more like 2014, not 15, when searching to see what you were reading. Businesses in general are usually pretty slow to upgrade client machines. Servers and such that they run business on not so much. Also, they are talking enterprise level companies.I'm guessing Server 2012 will be seen in enterprise very quickly, very nice remote management. What Joe Blow in accounting runs, that may not move as quickly. Win 8 in reality is more a move toward consumer markets and tablets though... Which enterprises may use. Execs like their tablets....

 
Typo? First thing I found indicated more like 2014, not 15, when searching to see what you were reading. Businesses in general are usually pretty slow to upgrade client machines. Servers and such that they run business on not so much. Also, they are talking enterprise level companies.I'm guessing Server 2012 will be seen in enterprise very quickly, very nice remote management. What Joe Blow in accounting runs, that may not move as quickly. Win 8 in reality is more a move toward consumer markets and tablets though... Which enterprises may use. Execs like their tablets....
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I copied and pasted from some article that I read, I should have included the link. Anyways, I agree about the Execs and their tablets. Our company ordered quite a few Ipads and truthfully, they probably would have been better off with a windows OS tablet. The Apple OS doesn't exactly love our citrix environment.

 
Well I hate to say it, but it looks like i'm moving back to windows 7. Maybe when Windows 9 comes out. Welcome to the next Vista.
 
Well I hate to say it, but it looks like i'm moving back to windows 7. Maybe when Windows 9 comes out. Welcome to the next Vista.
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Prepare for the wrath!!!!!!

 
You might as well all upgrade and get used to it. It is here to stay. If you wait for Win 9 it will look the same. Also, calling it the next Vista is BS. Vista had it's bad rep mostly for performance and stability issues.... neither of those exist with Win 8
 
You'll go back.
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He'll go back regardless. The same guy complained about the new look of Win 7, but now that's apparently the best thing ever... From a gaming aspect though, I don't know if he cares about directX 11, as long as he can run WoWThere's changes to get used to, it took me a week or two to get it down, but I wouldn't go back. At work I'm rarely at the modern start layout and spend more time in classic. At home it's the opposite since there's modern apps for about everything I do at home.

 
Coworker who was even more die-hard about, has also broken in and gone back to Windows 7. As far as the Direct X 11.1 thing. This is the same thing as when ATI did it and Nvidia decided not to touch it. Nothing become of it. If no video games companies make their games to work with it, it's as good as dead. It's not like it's Direct X 12. The changes are minimal anyways.
 
Funny story, my boss told me today that he picked up two Surface tablets when he was at the Microsoft store. He said he hated them so much he gave them to his kids.
 
Funny story, my boss told me today that he picked up two Surface tablets when he was at the Microsoft store. He said he hated them so much he gave them to his kids.
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Proof of what a moron your boss is...

 
Funny story, my boss told me today that he picked up two Surface tablets when he was at the Microsoft store. He said he hated them so much he gave them to his kids.
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This is a textbook case of child abuse. He would have been much happier with the Leappad2.

 
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