Looks like some of them are installing Start8 and giving it to users.
But Lenovo and Samsung, which both make Windows 8 and Windows RT-based devices, have already bundled in software to include the Windows Start menu, for instance, which remains one of the biggest gripes behind the latest Microsoft operating system.OEMs are also complaining, reports ZDNet's Adrian Kingsley-Hughes. In his speaking to OEM sources, Microsoft is "destroying" the PC industry. Another OEM partner claimed the problems with Windows 8 has "handed over millions of customers to Apple."
Adrian hated Vista as I recall... But his voice is now added to the "No Start Menu" legion. Ha! But his point is that, ya can't remove stuff that has been the most important part of an OS from even before Windows 95! It's all the same thing, the Windows 3.1 "Program Manager" - It was in Windows 95 and I think, in Windows 98 and maybe even in 2000, was it finally gone in XP? Wait... Well Whaddya Know? It's STILL THERE in XP! Hahahahahaha!!!!!!!
How about Windows 7? Nope, it's finally gone in Windows 7 - It's in XP but it does not start in XP. I wonder why they sis that? Left it in - I used to use mine in Windows 95 and 98.
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Toshiba still represents a fraction of the overall market. What appears to be on the face of it is a PC manufacturer dousing Microsoft in flames, the PC maker is only just getting around to launching and selling Windows 8-based machines.
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Toshiba, I like their Satellite line of laptops- But their hardware has always suckkked. I never buy Toshiba Hard Drives - Do you guys remember Hewlett-Packard computers? Ohhh Ghod... The very worst computers in the world.
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I remember they had all these bizarre box designs, and they'd have to make special Motherboards to fit very strange footprints. So if any component went bad you were stuck, you had yo buy it from them, IF... IF they still made the part! Which they didn't cos they stopped making it maybe 2 months after you bought it brand new a-ahahaha. I remember seeing machines with 100 MB Hard Drives - They came Pre Filled... With all kinds of crap programs, "Hewlett Packard Navigator" - A Multimedia set of pogroms that never worked right, that wold FILL UP all but 20 MB of your brand new computer's hard drive.
They carried this over as PCs started having 1 GB - 4 GB - 20 GB then later 120, 230, 320, I dont think they survivced up to 500 GB hard drives. They would cram it FULL of JUNK Programs.
So, they'd CRASH. You call them on the phone, their solution to everything was "Wipe the hard drive and reinstall windows" - Oh Yah? What about my user files?
Also, you buy these nice shiny systems from them, that have huge glossy STICKERS you absolutely cannot get off of the case. eMachines used to do the same thing, but the difference was quality, eTowers made some good systems, sometimes. But the main issue with Hewlett-Packard compukers: You disk out your 3 thousand bucks, you bring it home, it works for two weeks, then you get "System Protection Error You need to restart your computer" - THIS IS NOT A MICROSOFT ERROR! So, you call them up, and they say "Delete the hard drive and use the "recovery" disk - They were the first OEM that bundles a bunch of garbage programs in... And so you have 20 MB of a 4 GB drive free after this process... And this time, it only works for 1 week - Then 2 days.
Anyone remember that? "System Protection Error You need to restart your computer" - In other words a Blue Screen of Deth, but you cold not SEE it, just this worthless message that says nothing. And the reason wqhy I hated apple back in 1989 - They used to do similar stuff, something bad happened, and the system would say "File Protection Error BUMMER" and then
icon. HUH? What good is THAT? Oh don't let me go on about this hahahahaha.
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Whittard noted that Toshiba is only just getting around to selling Windows 8-based devices — not Windows RT — because it still had Windows 7 stock to clear from its inventory. Focusing on the business market, he said many businesses don't upgrade their machines to a new operating system "until two or three years later."
Now, despite their bad hard drives, this makes sense. Plus, Windows 7 phones, what about those, are they all Windows 8 phones now?
Basically, I'll break down MS's error like so, they made Windows 8 RT, for tablets and devices, fine. Was there a Windows 7 RT too? I never saw a Windows 7 phone, I dunno. Well, people bought Windows 7 phones, like how it works, but the new Windows 8 phones, how different are they, can they be used the same way, and most important, can the apps that run on a windows 7 phone run on a windows 8 phone?
The other thing is, the Desktop market - MS should have given us a 3rd option foe Windows 8 - They had RT, and they have Windows 8 Pro/With Media Center, they also need Windows 8 WITHOUT Metro, for servers and workstations.
Most of the stuff we post, I always try to post on ZDnet, I don't know how many of these BBS's Microsoft reads, but they do read the comments at ZDnet. Well they read our posts about Vista over there, and they accommodated us. So I hope they have at least one or two high level employees looking in HERE, cos only in these huge knock down drag out discussions can they really KNOW what the problems are, the problems they caused.