Windows 8 To Go Up...A Lot

...and here are the features deprecated in Windows 7:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee681713%28WS.10%29.aspx
Maybe we should all go back to Vista.

 

Fuzzfas trying to create sensationalism out of the pure fact that Windows 8 got some features removed is laughable at best.

Every Windows version passes under transformations, where some features are removed and some features are changed/added. This is what justifies calling them new Windows versions at all (besides the commercialization under new names).

The features removed at:

- Windows ME:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_ME#Removed_features

- Windows XP:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_XP

- Windows Vista:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_Vista

- Windows 7:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_7

- Windows 8:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_8

......

And the features changed/added at (just for the sake of completeness):

- Windows ME:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_ME#New_and_updated_features

- Windows XP:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP#New_and_updated_features
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_XP

- Windows Vista:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista#New_or_changed_features
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_Vista

- Windows 7:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7#New_and_changed_features
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_7

- Windows 8:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8#New_and_changed_features
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_8

........

 

Haters gonna hate... here are some new stats coming from yet another reputable source (Net Applications), just waiting to be called biased, imaginary, contradictory, or whatever haters prefer to believe instead of accepting the reality:

Net Applications: Windows 8 keeps gaining market share

 

I'm happy to see Windows 8 doing well. Better security being distributed to users is a good thing.

 

Isn't Windows 8 installed on just about every new desktop and laptop sold? Not to mention the tablet market... It better grow, else we'll have to conclude that people aren't buying any computers anymore...

 

But there are some that forget this simple fact. The amount of Windows licenses sold separately doesn't compare with the number of Windows licenses that come with new machines.

 

http://www.extremetech.com/computin...r-launch-and-microsofts-cryptic-sales-figures

 

I haven't checked in to this thread in a while. It looks like I had a fairly good idea of what I was talking about after all....Wildhunter

 

You do realise that just because someone disagrees with you or your 'statistics' doesn't necessarily make them a 'hater' right?

I don't want to upgrade to Win 8 for a variety of reasons. The main one being that I don't like it & prefer Win 7. This doesn't make me a 'hater'. A lot of people would rather stay with Win 7, which is a perfectly good operating system, that is not obsolete & is being supported until 2020.

You can keep posting these pointless 'statistics', I'm sure others can find plenty to contradict them. Who bloody cares?

 

Waiting..

 

You must not let your feelings do such damage to you.

The excessive zeal, prohibits you from reading properly, doesn't it.

Pray tell. Are these turned off graphics or not?

I will make it easier for you to spot the difference, since you may have forgotten by now what "depth" means. Same options window, but by default, they look a tad different. Could it be, because one has turned off graphics?



Give this photo to a grandpa and ask him "grandpa, which one is the newer?"

But it's "faster" this way! No kidding! Even faster:

You are so kind, Lord Wild Hunter, defender of the Realm of Redmondshire, Knight of computing and champion of Microsoft! How will i ever repay you for your patience?

 

I'm mostly using android tablet now.I can online bank ,browse and do everything I could on windows 7 laptop and desktop.Set up a friends new windows 8 desktop which he had for Xmas.After about half hour playing with it, I found it to be more like windows 7 with a skin.Personally I wouldn't upgrade from 7 but wouldn't care if I had it on a newly purchased PC at some time.I'm more inclined to purchase another tablet rather than PC though.

 

What you don't seem to grasp is that I don't care either way. I'm still with Disraeli when it comes to 'statistics'.

 

Please don't say that! This is an offense for Win8! The wrath of God will fall upon you. You will disappoint people! Maybe you missed all the exciting features every user prays for when he upgrades?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_8

Stunning you missed them, isn't it?

 

Yes, the difference is in WHAT is removed, WHAT added and WHAT pre-existent gets better. Thanks for the list, i couldn't have put it better myself. Laughable or sad, your list did excellent description.

 

I think of windows OS, like my car.....I don't care what it looks. ike or what extras it has as long as it gets me from a to b

 

That is your opinion. Obviously myself and some of the other posters in thread disagree with you and see Windows 8 as anything but a failure, and actually prefer Windows 8 to Windows 7, and believe our $40 (or in my case soon to $200 to get 5 licences in total) was money well spent.

 

I never said it wasn't my opinion, actually fora in internet, have, i think, the following meaning:

b : a public meeting place for open discussion
c : a medium (as a newspaper or online service) of open discussion or expression of ideas

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forum


Oddly, it is Win8 adopters that as soon as someone DARES say that THEIR opinion of Win8 has also an opposite, start attacking you as "hater", "weird", "short sighted" and whatever else as if THEIR opinion was the absolute reality!

Ultimately, ALL Windows versions, including Me and Vista, had users that liked it and also treated the same way those who didn't. This is no surprise. But at the end, the success of an OS, was historically judged by its penetration in the users. THAT passed in history as a "successful OS", not the perceived reality of the adopters or non adopters. So time will tell at the end. In the meantime, one has his opinion and hopefully, can say it.


It's your money, i certainly won't come there and slap you to make you admit that you aren't happy with it or that it's not money well spent. But i just am entitled to have an opinion too.

 

Oh cmon man Let's be realistic, if you don't think of yourself as a Windows 8 "hater" you're deluding yourself. You're the only person in this thread that has consistently battered on for all 5 pages of its current existence.

There are MANY, many people here on Wilders who have positive and negative experiences and/or opinions about Windows 8, I don't see them droaning on and on and on about all these points every 3rd, 4th, or 5th post.

Heck, even the people trying to tell you you're wrong about certain non-opinion orientated points that you make eventually give up after a while (I know I did) >.>

 

Does this make you Win8 lover or "fanboy" or "MS fashion victim" or what? Usually, when i am quoted i reply, i can go 10 pages if you like and i admit that i do enjoy disturbing the "Win 8 cultists' nirvana". I 've been through this before and it's enjoyable. Mostly because when after some years, i dig up the relevant threads about Me, the people with which i was disagreing back then, now disappear (talking about other forum).

The more you address me, the more i will reply to you. I am not here to post by your wishes or likings, you can ignore me. You certainly gave up!

 

"Windows 8 is the new XP

Summary: This new version of Windows is a disaster. Power users can't wait to replace the UI, and businesses are avoiding it like the plague. I'm talking, of course, about Windows XP. Ah, how quickly we forget."

http://www.zdnet.com/windows-8-is-the-new-xp-7000006095/

 

LOL wow, not sure how I missed this. Full of so much truth it's unreal. Especially this golden nugget which I've seen appended to Windows 8:

Brilliant, really.

 

hahaha!

the more things change the more they stay the same.

 

I hated that plastic looking XP theme. I ran the classic theme for the first 2 years and then a hacked uixtheme.dll with custom themes for the rest of its years.

 

From the technological perspective, XP did not being anything to the common user. People were simply forced to upgrade because new hardware came out and they could not buy old stuff. The same goes here.

The margin between 7 and 8 is even less.

Mrk