MS rethinking Windows 8, may make changes

[ultimatebob]

I knew that windows 8 adopters will get screwed. Not everybody knows how to upgrade, so they will stay on 8. And 8 is going to have short support cycle. Same happened to Vista -> 7; although Vista is not bad; just slower than 7.

Vista was pure crap for the first year it was out. The file transfer performance was dreadful, the GUI was sluggish as hell on integrated graphics, and you couldn't get drivers for practically any hardware that was more than a year old.

I think that I had to wait 18 months to finally get stable Sound Blaster Audigy drivers, and none of the advanced features on my multifunction printer were ever supported.

 

[C1]

There were also massive complaints seen from network users including IT support people (ie, slow network).

I had to finally throw in the jock with VISTA because I couldnt watch a video (ie, it would stall/skip) while transferring a large file to the HDD (part of the file transfer performance issue). All of this was on the 2Ghz Duo Core 2Gb ram machine with which VISTA was included.

 

[CSMR]

A button to proceed to the Start Screen would be helpful for users who are on VMs or are RDPing. Not really for anyone else, especially with the hot-corner in existance

For most people a visible button is better than an invisible button.

 

[debian0001]

I hope they fix the way Office 2013 looks too.