Windows 8 update

wmrcomputers

wmrcomputers

Stafford PC & laptop repair specialist
What a pile of shizzles... why the hell have they introduced a new start button that just links to the start screen. We can already get that on windows 8 by clicking right in the corner anyway! Classic Shell is what everyone is using (and more to the point what they want and need), so this new 8.1 Start Button could bugger up using that, unless we can disable the new start button in favour of Classic Shell in which place it's still a nuisance. I set Windows 8 users up with Classic Shell, which is great as you can still switch to the new Start Screen when you are ready to have a play around with the "newer" side of Windows.

I really don't see what their new Start Button is going to acheive at all.
 
Moby Dick

Moby Dick

Well-Known Forumite
After updating my PC to Windows 8 have decided worse OS ever and am considering re format and installing windows 7 again. IMO of course...
 
wmrcomputers

wmrcomputers

Stafford PC & laptop repair specialist
The only advice I'll give MD, is give yourself at least a week of playing around and exploring it, especially the Windows Store and some of the free aps you can download. Most people decide they hate it before letting it grow on them, and when I give this advice to people, at least 50% of them start to change their mind within a week or two.
I'm not saying it's the best OS ever, but it has some cool stuff when you get to know it a little better ;)
 
shoes

shoes

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I've only used it briefly, and in it's Start button guise, but in my short playing with it I failed to identify any reason to use it over 7 - again this is only my personal experience, and a short lived one at that. Perhaps with an extended test it might yield some improvements.

At present though 7 is as good as it gets for me and the stability seems to rival that of XP now :)
 
proactive

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
shoes said:
I've only used it briefly, and in it's Start button guise, but in my short playing with it I failed to identify any reason to use it over 7 - again this is only my personal experience, and a short lived one at that. Perhaps with an extended test it might yield some improvements.

At present though 7 is as good as it gets for me and the stability seems to rival that of XP now :)
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A view held a majority of (non-techy) users and certainly one of the main reason why Steve Balmer has decided to step down.
 
shoes

shoes

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I say Windows 7 is as good as it gets - I still prefer OS X but since the demise of my last mac and my reluctancy to spend a whole month's salary on a replacement, I am now sporting a windows laptop.
 
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