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[DavidA2]

Why bother though? For desktops Windows 7 is better.

MS needs to realize that Windows 8 should have had an advanced option to have "Windows 7" like interface.

[Tenchu]

Thanks for the report, Beamer.

I was just at the Microsoft store showing my wife some Windows 8 laptops and convertibles, most with touch screens. She was instantly frustrated by the non-intuitiveness of the Modern UI (formerly known as Metro). I would have helped her out with the basics, except that I seemed to have forgotten them myself.

It was nothing like the iPad, of course.

I'm going to try upgrading to Win8 on my desktop next week, but I'll make sure to do a complete backup of my system first.

Tenchu

[mmoy]

One of my co-workers installed Windows 8 on his laptop with no problems (it was running Windows 7). I'd guess that your problem isn't that common or else it would have been caught by beta testing. I recall that you have a custom rig.

I'm planning on upgrading too with the special deal. Vista is just incredibly slow at startup, shutdown and regular use. Even with a Core i7. My Merom-based iMac starts up, shuts down and generally runs OS things faster than my i7 which is ridiculous. It's a lot better with Windows 7 (I have an identical system in the office running Windows 7) and it should be a lot faster with Windows 8. One thing that I will miss on Windows 8 is Gadgets. Gadgets were abandoned for tiles. If Gadgets work, that would be great. I prefer a small sidebar with calendar, clock, weather, stocks and CPU thread usage over covering the screen with tiles.

[joseph pareti]

they are still light years away from Apple and Google at having an Operating System that "just works".

Very sobering assessment, especially because it's from the pen of a smart guy like wbmw, rather than being the usual goldman sucks type bad mouthing