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In Reply to: RE: On the other hand... posted by Jaundiced Ear on November 12, 2014 at 20:34:32
True. MS is seeking input from early adopters of the Windows 10 "Tech Preview". I have found that the UI is thankfully less "Metro-Instrusive".
I've been playing with the Windows 10 Tech Preview on my Mac within a virtual machine where it can't take a shit and damage anything. ;-)
Windows 8 failed miserably in trying to force a poorly thought out touch screen tablet interface onto folks with standard PCs. It was a compromise OS at best that no one wanted.
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I guess I was one of the few who were completely unfazed by Windows 8. I don't love or use Metro all that much, but neither does it bother me. With Windows 8.1 I find that I only ever interact with Metro when I go looking for it. Otherwise I pretty much stay exclusively in the desktop environment.
What are your thoughts on Windows 10?
JE
8.1 was improvement over 8 but still I find a lot of the utilities kind of scattered about with different ways of getting to them. I use it only when I must which is seldom.
As for Windows 10 Tech Preview I think they're trying to streamline it but too early to come to any conclusions. I'll wait for 10 to release and then 10.1 for many fixes. ;-)
So 7 is still your preferred version of Windows? I can't really object to that as 7 was a solid version of Windows. However, as fmak points out above, 8, and 8.1, once you get past the Metro stuff, are even more solid. While Microsoft has been fiddling with the interface, it also has been refining the underpinnings. These are two different groups! And while the interface may have created controversy, I don't think anyone has argued that the underpinnings are not a substantial step forward.And truly, for me at least, the foibles of 8 weren't that hard to master. It's like the way car manufacturers have moved the transmission lever from the console to the steering wheel column. For a day or so it's disconcerting, but then you learn how it works and quit thinking about it.
The same thing with Windows 8. If you insist on it's being Windows 7 you're just going to have heartburn. But if you work with it eventually you'll quit thinking about it altogether.
JE
Edit: Oh, and by the way, Windows has always been about giving you multiple ways to do things. I used to be a huge Mac fan until Apple taught me a bitter lesson in the economics of sole-source suppliers. Before then I would quip that Apple provided the best way to do something while Microsoft provided every other way to do the same thing.
Edits: 11/14/14
I gave up on Windows about 7 years ago as my primary operating system. Prior to that, I was on DOS and many flavors of Windows up to the point of switching to Mac. I find Mac OS to be better thought out, more intuitive, and rock solid. Of course it is based on UNIX which has a few decades of refinement under it's belt and I know UNIX well enough to do a lot of fancy things on the command line if necessary.
I agree that Windows 8 is snappier and pretty stable. But I think Windows 8 will be seen as the Windows Vista of recent MS operating systems once Windows 10 is released. Windows 8/8.1 has actually stalled PC sales. Realizing this, some manufacturers who stopped loading Windows 7 in favor of 8 have reverted back to Windows 7 again to help sales pick up.
I'm not going to spend a lot of time with the Windows 10 Tech Preview. I mainly wanted to get a quick look at it.
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