jimbo45;
What is it with people who condemn Ms for selling an OS THEY want to and think it's fit for purpose -- we don't get the same complaint when a CAR manufacturer stops selling a favourite model and pushes a new one which some people might HATE.
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Sorry Jimbo there are many examples out there regarding car manufacturers so not a good example IMO.
Like them or not but even Blackberry decided with their new 10 not to alienate their existing user base - offered with a touch or traditional querty keyboard. The problem with Win8 is the UI and it was not beyond the technical expertise of MS to offer either Metro (or whatever it's called) or Classic UI at install time.
Hi there
the existing user base DOESN'T HAVE to upgrade -- if your current computer works fine and the way you work is suited to W7 then keep it.
Blackberry is a different example as it's HARDWARE and you are buying NEW hardware.
If you buy a different new brand of TV for example it won't (or even shouldn't) work in exactly the same way as your old one.
The whole software market has plenty of example where some people don't like a newer release and stick with the old one -- for example the latest releases of Acronis IMO have a dreadful interface compared with the old classic Acronis True Image before they added all the Year prefixes such as Acronis Home 2011 etc.
Actually as it's been pointed out many times it's not at all difficult to get W8 to function and behave almost identically to W7 and believe it ot not some people actually LIKE the metro idea -- I'm not one of them though -- I'd prefer the updating tiles to be bought back as "Gadgets" again - but this of course wouldn't work on a small smart phone screen.
We shall see what happens --remember this is purely a FIRST iteration for Ms in this type of market.
I'm not sure what people expect Ms to do -- do you really WANT to see Ms go out of business. They won't make it by staying with an essentially Dinosaur (although well performing) OS -- W7--that has an ever diminishing marketdue to the declining (and quite large declining) use of desktop PC's -- Ms needs to embrace NEW devices for which support in W7 can't easily be done -- if it were that easy we'd still be running XP (albeit the 64 bit version).
I'll bet that if you walk into a PC store these days --if you can still find any Physical stores around -- you probably won't see ANY desktop work stations any more -- if you want one of these you'll probably have to build it yourself --which people do of course.
Anyway I agree that W8 has SOME problems --not nearly as bad as people make out -- but I'm glad Ms is looking at supporting new hardware rather than just concentrating on essentially a DYING scenario --the classic desktop.
I'm actually replying now to a load of these posts by using in test a VOICE activated application -- seems to be working fine on W8 -- the device wouldn't even THINK of working on W7 --and apart from the initial set up of trying to get the dialect right it is working much quicker than I expected - and comparable with typing. (I don't think though I'd like to use one of these devices all the time though - but it's quite nice while having a nice drink in your hand and watching some sports videos at the same time).
(After the basic post it does require some editing -- quotes from prev posters typos and caps and attachments where appropriate - but the quality of hardware will significantly improve in the future.).
Cheers
jimbo
Today they updated the Pinball FX app. Wheeewiii!
