In my personal opinion Windows 8 is a horrible experience, with poor design that is nowhere near finished.
Nothing works properly, it took ten minutes for the account activation email from eightforums.com to open my download speed is about 5% or less of what it used to be. I just upgraded to this Windows 8 piece of junk from Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit and I regret it.
For those of you who think this OS is great, let's look at the facts:
The new Windows 8 Internet Explorer is unresponsive, and sluggish. When I click on links it does nothing for a number of minutes then the page loads, and it's not like my connection is normally slow or anything, I have cable modem, the fastest plan, in Win 7 downloads, browsing, gaming, everything was a breeze.
In Windows 8 my games, first example, Tribes: Ascend, does not even work, even after installing .net framework and DirectX, which normally does the trick, the launcher for the game doesn't even work properly.
Windows 8 is $39.95 AUD via direct download > Windows 7 $199 Cheapest price I've found for Ultimate 64 Bit
Why is Windows 8 so cheap?
In my personal opinion they made it cheap because they know it's no good.
I also reckon the new "Metro Menu" is a bit on the queer side.
Anyone used the new "Store".
From memory there was no "Store" in Win 7, personally the only Microsoft software I really need is Windows, and possibly Office.
This new "Store" is clearly just to make Microsoft some big moneys, from app junkies.
What do you guys think?
Do you like the new Win 8 or do you hate it as much as I do?
If I actually bought Win 8 on DVD instead of downloading it, I would of burnt it by now.
P.S. When I installed Win 8 it claimed that it was creating a restore point, and it's not in the list of restore points, there are no restore points in the list actually.
Does anyone know if the restore point is just for the installation in case it crashes or something?
Thanks