I really don't mind change and have always had the latest of OSs for decades. Window 8 was designed for touch systems and just doesn't work well for non touch but the worst thing is it is just broken without a start button for examples that I have already spent a lot of time on. The 'search' features don't always work on software that uses a shell such as Visual Studio SQL SSIS
Correction. Windows 8 is designed for both touch devices as well as desktop devices. Again, if you don't like using as a touch, just use the desktop environment. Install classic shell and you will never have to see metro ever again. And about the search features not working for shell, don't use it then. Just use it like you would with windows 7.
You're just looking for reasons to hate windows 8. There are those of us who are perfectly fine with the new UI.
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Windows 8 is exactly like windows 7 plus more options. If you hate the new options, don't use them. Install classic shell and use it exactly like windows 7.
Wow. I've been using Windows 8 for a couple of years as the default OS on this laptop and my last laptop. Yes, I put a start button on it that bypasses the start screen and goes to my desktop, skipping the two worst sections of Windows UI [you do know what that means don't you?]. My start menu has pages and pages of icons mixed in together with no form of organization which is just one of the mistakes that Microsoft used with their Modern UI and that has made it unusable unless I spend hours organizing it myself. Again, it is a complete mess because Microsoft built it that way. The search doesn't work due to the order that I install my software and the ONLY way that I can find software is by using the start button that I installed. Visual Studio is one huge and expensive Microsoft product that is unsearchable using both Windows 8 and Windows 2012.
I'm not looking for reason to hate windows 8. It has done a good enough with mistakes like this to make me hate it all by itself. But again, I've been running Windows 8 as my default OS on both this laptop and my last laptop as the only OS [installed Hyper-V and installed server based OSs inside].
Windows 8 is NOT like Windows 7 just with more options. You have to get rid of that horrible Modern UI to get to that point. Yes, once the end user fixes the mistakes of the UI by installing software that allows you to close the Modern UI apps [otherwise they just hide and you have to kill them off by using the task manager - horrible, horrible mistake], hide the Start Screen [useless apps - I can always have a better users experience by either going to the web site or using the desktop version] and put a start button back in, there are some great new things in Windows 8 but I had to go to a lot of work to make it usable.
Start screen. Ever since DOS 2, they have used a tree based file system to find and use apps so when you get people who will like windows 8 even if it killed their dog and called their mom bad names and try to tell you that it only started with Windows 95, it is much, much older than that. But Microsoft and in all of its wisdom said, "Lets just throw all icons to every exe on one screen and let people try to find the application they want" after an all night drinking session [GUID Generator right next to a text editor that I installed? I think that the GUID Generator came from either VS or Office but you couldn't tell that by where it is] . Unless I spend hours working with it and organizing it, there is no reason for me to ever look at it. A complete joke
Charms; I don't have a choice of using the touch version of Microsoft's biggest mistake to be able to shut down the OS unless I have my own start button put in. Ever try to shut down a Windows 2012 in RDP that isn't full screen by using the charms? There is a hidden place just a few pixels wide that you have to hunt for trying to get the charms to work. Full screen and its not a problem. How many servers do you use on a daily basis and out of those, how many times were you actually sitting in front of them working with a keyboard and mouse that were connected to those servers? Just doesn't happen. I have over 150 servers to deal with, quite often I have many open at the same time and rarely full screen so that I can get more on my own screen.
No, Microsoft has given me plenty of reasons to hate Windows 8/2012. The only way I can use it on a daily basis [mind you, I installed this on my own as I have since the first beta, no one forced me] without throwing it out the window is by using tools to fix Microsoft's horrible UI.
But once I fixed them UI mistakes, I think it is the best OS that has ever come out of Micrsoft
