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Post by mnhermit on Nov 13, 2012 13:21:07 GMT -5
Has anybody here taken advantage of MS's $40 upgrade to Windows 8? I'm thinking about it but am a little nervous, jumping 3 iterations with one fell swoop is a little intimidating. Mostly because I figured it would be the best way for me to clean up my OS rather than reload XP.
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Post by Supertramp78 on Nov 13, 2012 13:40:43 GMT -5
I think I would actually have to own a legit copy of some former version of Windows to take advantage of that and to be honest I don't think I do.
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Post by sekhmet on Nov 13, 2012 13:52:43 GMT -5
I considered W8 for about 45 seconds. And then I decided that it is the ugliest thing I have ever seen. 7 works fine for me.
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Post by Village Idiot on Nov 13, 2012 13:57:04 GMT -5
We're getting new laptops at work, but not Windows 8. Let's not keep up with technology or anything.
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Post by dickt on Nov 13, 2012 14:12:31 GMT -5
I've got about 200 Dell desktops at work running XP. Their plan is to bump them from 2G memory to 4 and install Windows 7. These are around six years old already and are failing at an increasing rate. Penny wise and pound foolish. New boxes would probably be $500. If the new boxes lasted just five years that would be $100 per employee per year.
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Post by sekhmet on Nov 13, 2012 14:50:38 GMT -5
dickt, that is a stupid plan. Windows 7 is an admirable OS, but geez, six year old computers are done. Kaput.
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Post by Marshall on Nov 13, 2012 14:51:09 GMT -5
I considered W8 for about 45 seconds. And then I decided that it is the ugliest thing I have ever seen. 7 works fine for me. 7 is very stable, for what I hear. it's on my Dell. Works best of any Windows version I've used. I think it's too early to know if 8 is going to meet expectations. I think there are some gripes from traditional pc users because Win 8 is set up to accept touch-screen input. That's what the Windows pad runs. I'm sure it's different from the pc version of Win 8. But I would worry that Win 8 takes away some familiar functionality in favor of the pad input options. That's just a guess. But I'd wait. MS's track record on new releases of Windows is spotty.
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Post by dradtke on Nov 13, 2012 14:53:30 GMT -5
7 works well. If history is any guide, they'll eventually fix all the stuff they break in 8, call it 9, and we can switch then.
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Post by Supertramp78 on Nov 13, 2012 14:54:00 GMT -5
The guy in charge of Windows just left Microsoft. Huge shakeup.
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Post by mccoyblues on Nov 13, 2012 14:54:17 GMT -5
No plans. My work laptop and both my home PCs run XP and it works just fine.
If I wanted something that looked and acted like an Apple OS I'd buy a MAC.
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Post by xyrn on Nov 13, 2012 15:12:11 GMT -5
I got a new laptop about a month or so ago (dropped something and cracked the screen on my old one, doh).
Win7 installed, and included an offer to upgrade to Win8 for $14.95. I'll pass. I reaaaaally don't want the first version of any new OS. When Vista came out we were shopping for a new PC and took the bait instead of staying with XP. Big mistake, as some of you may know Vista was very buggy in its first form. Huge and slow, too.
With most of my computers I set up a dual-boot and do most of my surfing and work on the Ubuntu side, only going over to Windows when accessing work files or other stuff that can only be done under MS architecture.
I love linux based OS's, usually fast to boot up, fast surfing, and just about all parameters can be tweaked or adjusted.
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Post by Doug on Nov 13, 2012 15:26:42 GMT -5
Win 7 is the best OS from M$ ever. Like XP before it every once in a while M$ gets something right.
Win 8 based on touch screens seems limiting so I'm in the waiting group.
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Post by sekhmet on Nov 13, 2012 20:57:45 GMT -5
the only thing that is intriguing about W8 is that it apparently uses less resources and computers run a lot faster. That might make a difference when I have Lightroom and Photoshop and a browser all jumping along at the same time .. but I'm okay as it is.
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Post by mnhermit on Nov 14, 2012 11:10:18 GMT -5
Well y'all have convinced me...I'll have to be the guinea pig for this. XP is finally going wonky on me, not multiprocessing well - I blame it on an upgrade to Firefox, tho I'm not absolutely positive. But it's torn up my sound/video processing and I'm getting tired of the digital artifacts of poor replay.
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Post by omaha on Nov 14, 2012 11:18:00 GMT -5
I just bought a new desktop (actually an "all in one", which is the format I prefer anymore) that came with Windows 8.
Its confusing to me. The interface is totally different. And (this is the real bummer) the manufacturer of the RIP we have in front of one of our digital presses hasn't written a print driver for it. So we have to go through some needless gymnastics to send jobs downstream. Its pretty much a PITA.
But its fast. I'll give them that.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Nov 15, 2012 10:27:11 GMT -5
My next computer will be a Mac.
Mike
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Post by dradtke on Nov 15, 2012 11:31:10 GMT -5
But its fast. I'll give them that. They're all fast when they're new.
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Post by mnhermit on Nov 15, 2012 11:34:38 GMT -5
I hate to admit it, but some of my problems have gone away - I closed Firefox and am using IE8. Suddenly my audio isn't breaking up as much, Unfortunately I'm now finding that there are LOTS of ads out there
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Post by Marshall on Nov 15, 2012 12:16:54 GMT -5
My next computer will be a Mac. Mike My Mac computer will be a Next.
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Post by PaulKay on Nov 15, 2012 12:49:12 GMT -5
I have windows 7 and would never consider upgrading. It looks like a bad tablet interface to me and I don't see why put it on a mouse based interface.
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