Windows 8. Do desktop users need it?

[thesilentman]

Am I the only person that thinks Windows 7 is awful? I was forced to take it with a new laptop just when I'd finally got used to wrestling with Vista and in 7 it feels like they've made even more of an effort to wrestle control out of my hands.

It feels like it was designed to be accessible for people who have no idea how to use a computer and an absolute nightmare for people who know not to open an e-mail attachment from the deposed prince of Nigeria.

Me, at first. Vista's interface I could handle, but 7's confused the heck outta me at first. Then I used it more and I can safely say that Vista is a gigantic steaming pile of shit. Oh and I've never felt Vista wrestle control. 7 sometimes, Vista never (discounting UAC here).

 

[SaetonChapelle]

I still have xp. T_T Gettg windows 7 for my brand new desktop coming in the mail but I'm behind on the times. Figures when I get my next desktop another windows gets released.

 

[Andrew_C]

I am no fan of Win8 and hate Metro as you might have gathered from my posts in this thread, but I would just like to point out that every version of Windows apart from Win2k and Win 7 has RUINED EVERYTHING. FOREVER!!!! before release, but somehow people have lived with it and even come to love some versions like XP, which was an utter disaster area until Service Pack 1 (never buy a Windows OS before SP1).

I can understand Microsoft's reasoning behind Metro and Windows 8, and it's relegation of the desktop user to a 2nd class citizen. Whether we like it or not, the desktop as we know it is going to go away eventually. Laptops will probably move into the desktop's niche and tablets occupy much of the present laptop niche. You can see it happening already. Laptops have already started outselling desktops.

 

[Dahaka27]

I am no fan of Win8 and hate Metro as you might have gathered from my posts in this thread, but I would just like to point out that every version of Windows apart from Win2k and Win 7 has RUINED EVERYTHING. FOREVER!!!! before release, but somehow people have lived with it and even come to love some versions like XP, which was an utter disaster area until Service Pack 1 (never buy a Windows OS before SP1).

I can understand Microsoft's reasoning behind Metro and Windows 8, and it's relegation of the desktop user to a 2nd class citizen. Whether we like it or not, the desktop as we know it is going to go away eventually. Laptops will probably move into the desktop's niche and tablets occupy much of the present laptop niche. You can see it happening already. Laptops have already started outselling desktops.

There will be always a market to have desktops in homes. With the new Ultrabooks and the new Macs soon to no longer support legacy video out that much longer, I am quite content to hook up my TV to my HDMI port on graphics card and get glorious true 1080p from my PC and not the upscaled crap that the 360 does and 720p that most of the PS3 games do.

 

[laggyteabag]

For a touch screen device, it would work well, however, for use with a normal PC, hell no!

I dont see there being many people adopting Win8 any time soon unless they reveal a Windows 7-like desktop view. Anyway, i wouldn't worry about it, 'cus most PC programmes run on older OS's anyway, so I don't see Win7 being dropped any time soon

 

[dfphetteplace]

I know that I will not be upgrading to 8. 7 works great for all of my games, and I see no reason to upgrade to it, at all. It really does not seem to offer anything unless you are using a tablet.

 

[Folji]

A lot of the technical aspects of Windows 8 are pretty admirable, but shoving a touch screen tablet interface on desktop users is like Microsoft coming to a conclusive agreement to blast their own feet off because it sounded like fun. For small netbook computers it might be a handy gimmick to play with (since your hands are moving pretty freely around while using the netbook and the size easily accommodates a tile-based interface), but for anyone with a desktop PC it lands you with an interface that's just gonna feel crowbareed in,'s gonna be right in your face thanks to the size of your screen and you're never going to use it like it should be used anyway because you have no reason whatsoever to reach out and place your hands all over it. The whole thing just smells of "touch interfaces are cool, let's make a desktop OS around it", without even mentioning that the Metro is designed as a closed system for which Microsoft gets to be the big bad gatekeeper. If it weren't for the fact that Windows 8 needs to be able to support existing PC software, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd just skipped the classic desktop part of the OS and made it nothing but Metro.

 

[TheKaduflyerSystem]

I'm still using Vista and intend to upgrade to win 7 early September-ish it took me far too long to become familiar with Win 7 on a friend's computer; and now I'm worried at the mere prospect of ANOTHER new windows; sometimes it seems 'almost' pointless to upgrade or even create a new OS; stupid throwaway society, shortening the lifespan of everything.

 

[Kakistos153]

Most people have computers. Most people are retarded. The natural (de)evolution is that populist OS developers will create shit for stupid people.