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What do you love about Windows 8?

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I liked the fact that switching back and forth from exclusive mode (games etc) was quicker.

I liked the new desktop UI look and feel, it was cleaner, wasted less space and ran faster.

I liked the new task manager, just everything about the way it tracked performance and such was awesome.

I liked the taskbar went across multiple monitors.

I liked he speed of search from pressing start and searching to launching an app.

I liked the way they fixed the task bar pinned apps so I could pin cygwin on there without messing about.

I liked the tweaks they made to the network configuration interface that made things just a little more intuitive.

Didn't stop me finally giving up after 2 months of problems though. It is better in some ways, but its worse in a lot of others.
 
BrightCandle said:
I liked the fact that switching back and forth from exclusive mode (games etc) was quicker.

I liked the new desktop UI look and feel, it was cleaner, wasted less space and ran faster.

I liked the new task manager, just everything about the way it tracked performance and such was awesome.

I liked the taskbar went across multiple monitors.

I liked he speed of search from pressing start and searching to launching an app.

I liked the way they fixed the task bar pinned apps so I could pin cygwin on there without messing about.

I liked the tweaks they made to the network configuration interface that made things just a little more intuitive.

Didn't stop me finally giving up after 2 months of problems though. It is better in some ways, but its worse in a lot of others.
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Nice, I suspected the last line after I kept seeing the word "liked." My personal story is similar, but I did not generate quite as many likes.
 
ketchup79 said:
Nice, I suspected the last line after I kept seeing the word "liked." My personal story is similar, but I did not generate quite as many likes.
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He should of made a Metro column with the word "Liked" 😉 .


I also love the fact that all my Win7 games and even oldies from 1990s etc....work fine in Win8 (gaming is an important aspect for me).
 
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Mem said:
... I bet my old desktop screenie does not give you a headache 😉 .
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😀

I'm really fussy about wallpaper. I have to have something subtle and abstract otherwise I find it too obtrusive. Pictures (people or places) are no go.

Could explain why I hate the look of metro I suppose, although I'm fine with a bunch of well organised folders and/or shortcuts on my desktop.
 
I kind of ended up on Windows 7 because I had a problem in Windows 8 that I couldn't track down (mouse lag). I went back to 7 as I suspected the OS or NVidia's driver in W8 but it turned out it was related to the monitors and happened in 7 and 8. So while there was a lot of things to like in Windows 8 there were also a lot of things to dislike and now that I have solved my problem and find myself on Windows 7 I can see nothing compelling to make me upgrade to 8 again. I never really regretted Windows 8, it was alright but it isn't worth paying for IMO.
 
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I'm really fussy about wallpaper. I have to have something subtle and abstract otherwise I find it too obtrusive. Pictures (people or places) are no go.

Could explain why I hate the look of metro I suppose, although I'm fine with a bunch of well organised folders and/or shortcuts on my desktop.
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What about Win8 desktop I have:

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It's good for me...I see that in ~ 15-20 sec. after I hit power button
 
I like how snappy it feels and starts up quick. I do really like some of the Metro apps and how much cleaner it is to just uninstall them unlike normal PC apps.
However their app selection is just filler, it's like putting rice with your chicken when you'd rather just have more chicken.
Some free apps are actually just "previews" yet don't mention such. It's a huge pain to find good apps there or the best type of app...645 apps just under "photos" yet only a few gems worth having.
 
Along with the new features, if nothing else, this thread has shown that Mem isn't the only one here that is enjoying Windows 8.
 
ketchup79 said:
Along with the new features, if nothing else, this thread has shown that Mem isn't the only one here that is enjoying Windows 8.
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I've liked most Windows except 3.11 and WinME,but I was a die hard DOS fan ,shame it went way of the dodo, all well I moved with the times or with Windows as they say 🙂 .

Don't get me started on all the Linux Distro's I like as well 😉 .
 
I don't like window 8. Few days ago I brought HP laptop with window 8 built in. I think still need to addition for Windows 8
 
I like the task manager, graphing of speeds while copying files, TRIM "optimize" functionality for SSDs. I wish the list of things I dislike were that short
 
What most dislike appears to be mostly visual, right down to how they visually interact with it based on habits. If you look for old threads, you'll find the same reactions to XP when it first came out..."fisher price" was mentioned often but that typically was the older crowd while the kids during that time either didn't care or weren't so stuck in their ways...ah, the adaptability of youth.
 
What many consider bad UI design in Windows 8 is a lot deeper than just the visual. It just doesn't help that on top of bad underlying design (which has been outlined a million times, so those that deny there's legitimate design problems are the ones refusing to learn anything) that it also looks like a hot mess as well.

Some people merely didn't like the default theme of Windows XP. It was seen by many as Microsoft just trying to copy the cough drop look of OSX at the time. But all anyone that didn't like it had to do was turn it off. MS didn't break every other rule of UI continuity and consistency with the rest of Windows XP, and people pretending it wasn't widely adopted, or hugely popular are just revising history to suit an argument.

The irony of casting XP's looks as the 'new' vs. the 'old' that was forever behing left behind and forgotten... it seems people aren't following through with that line of argument.

Microsoft are DROPPING the 'new' in favor of the 'old' that supposedly everyone was so wrong to want, as far as the simplified nature of the interface. Windows 8's desktop UI has more in common with Windows 95- heck more with Windows 3.1- than it does with the theme excesses of Windows XP, Vista or 7. And as for Metro, how far a step back (not forward) is single-window applications? Windows 2.0?
 
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iso mounting is nice, file copy graph is cool, task manager is better. Improvements in the background.

All that said I can't wait to move on...
 
The Skin , desktop mode. everything is flat and not bubbly like vista or 7 .... simple interface..... I could care less about metro ,,,,,,,,, its running but I think I have enough RAM hahahhah, gl
 
I like the simple non-aero look and task manager. Thats about it. I dual boot 7 and 8 and am using the Start8 menu, but still after several months find myself using 7 90% of the time. 8's biggest weakness imo is 7. There is nothing compelling about it for me to make a full time switch.
 
amenx said:
I like the simple non-aero look and task manager. Thats about it. I dual boot 7 and 8 and am using the Start8 menu, but still after several months find myself using 7 90% of the time. 8's biggest weakness imo is 7. There is nothing compelling about it for me to make a full time switch.
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I agree with this, i run 7 on my desktop and my laptop came with 8, going back and forth gets annoying because of some subtle changes to things like KB shortcuts. FFS why did they change how you change folder viewing with the KB

TBH that pisses me off more then anything

i like a lot of what people have posted so far, copying/pasting, transfer speed windos, task manager ect

i disslike the look and feel of the new non Areo. i really like how win7 does it, i really dont like the minimal aspect of 8, i want transperency like 7 back it looks so much better. i disslike how i had to make a MS live accnt to set it up.
 
Anubis said:
i disslike how i had to make a MS live accnt to set it up.
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When I installed 8 on a spear hard drive it gave me the option to not do so, but I had to answer quite a few questions when doing so (mostly about sharing IIRC). I don't know if the pre-installed versions do this though.
 
As far as I'm concerned, Win8 can burn in hell. I support enterprise environments, and one of my law firms just got a bunch of Win8 systems. Horrible experience for absolutely everyone involved, so we're in the middle of getting Win7 Pro + Office 2010 Pro Plus on them, [throwing out] Win8 and Office 2013 where they belong.

No profanity in the tech forums, please
-ViRGE
 
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Pros:
Improved parental controls
Integrated ISO mounting
Integrated Flash
Security and encryption
Performance improvements
Better task manager
Refresh and Reset
2 days update restart notification
 
Once you adjust to it, just seems plain cleaner overall. I know, I'll get NR for that suggestion.....

I'm an aesthete; Win8 is the first MS OS that starts to move towards the integrated look and feel Apple has had a lock on for such a long time. Plenty more to do, but it's a step in the right direction.

I've been well and truly bored with the Win95/XP interface for years. 7 was just another incremental improvement over that.

MS has also taken the step away from trying to create representational metaphors of non-computer interface elements; the embossing, the fake metal, paper, wood, etc.

I like the results so far. Easy on the eyes, less distracting, less intrusive.
 
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