Windows Traditions

[Brado78]

What will become of Windows 10? XP (excellent) Vista(Bad) 7 (excellent) 8 (Bad) 10????? any guesses

 

[nemesismk2]

i am hoping that windows 10 will be good

 

[Ketchup]

Have you tried the preview? It has a start menu, so in a nutshell, it should be fine.

 

[PliotronX]

The lack of a start menu was not the only thing wrong with 8/8.1 by a long shot. I have not bothered with the 10 TP simply because of this. If this is the direction they are heading, 7 will be the last good desktop-optimized Windows OS. I would classify 10 as bad but to a lesser degree than 8.1.

 

[Ketchup]

So tell us about what other problems you had with 8 PliotronX. I think the start menu was the basis for why it was a flop. It was just too much of a change for a mainstream OS.

 

[Kaido]

So tell us about what other problems you had with 8 PliotronX. I think the start menu was the basis for why it was a flop. It was just too much of a change for a mainstream OS.

Yup. It was not intuitive & it was ADD overload to look at. I mean, everything is easy once you figure it out, but I haven't had this many desktop support requests since back in the days when computers bluescreened all the time.

 

[corkyg]

These things are somewhat personal, but for me a deficiency in 8 and 8.1 was the inability to fully customize event sounds. MS hardwired some of these in order to meet specific time standards, which to me are less important.

As for the Start Menu, that was less important to me than the 8/8.1 desktop which added ugly text boxes as an additional layer between me and my programs. But, Start8 fixed that easily along with the Start Menu.

BTW, when I power sown Windows (Exit Windows) this is what I want to hear.
http://www.hark.com/clips/phbsnqjgsy-elvis-has-left-the-building

 

[Brado78]

After the pain staking time it took to figure out windows 8 I think alot of people are going to stick with windows 7. I even know people who had 8.0, 8.1 and they downgraded to 7

 

[jkauff]

I like a lot of the under-the-hood improvements in 8.1 over 7.0. Using Start8, it looks and works pretty much the same as 7.0. I never have to see that tiled monstrosity that lurks somewhere in my installation.

I'm a bit skeptical about Win 10 because it looks like they're trying to integrate some of the Metro stuff into the desktop, which I don't want at all. I'll only upgrade if I can make it look and work like my 8.1.

 

[ArisVer]

I'll only upgrade if I can make it look and work like my 8.1.

Which you upgraded because you could make it feel and look like Windows 7. :|


Windows 2000. Brought NTFS file system, and NT kernel. Good? Yes.
Windows XP was a tweaked version of Windows 2000 and had many improvements. I'd say is second to Windows 7 for the masses. Good? Yes.
Windows Vista. 64 bit computing, optimized for multi core processors. I think it's way better than XP. Good? Yes.
Windows 7. SSD ready and the best taskbar you can find. It can handle anything there is on the web today (apart from the newest DirectX if I am not mistaken). Good? Yes.
Windows 8. Touch screen ready. Refined to run on lower hardware requirements. Good? Yes.

I do not see a lot similarities between Vista and 7. I see similarities between 2K and XP, and 7 and 8.
Vista was problematic in the beginning and was fixed. 8 had no start button which is easily fixed by a third party program.

How the people are going to react to 10 I do not know. We will find out by the end of the year.