I would rather use Unity, and Unity makes me want to blow my dad's computer up every time I use it when I am visiting.

Running the 8 preview (under Parallels, lol). So far, I've barely touched the Metro UI; straight to Desktop for me, which looks suspiciously like a 7 environment. *shrug*

I've run the Preview quite a bit, and after a few days got used to it. It has its ups and downs. I certainly don't hate it.

All of that said, the idea of rolling it out enterprise level makes me want to kill myself. Unless something significant comes up that requires our doing so, I won't recommend we move to 8 until 2016-2017 (Mwaha. Win 9?).

Unless it's somehow successful enough on the home level that I don't have to train everyone on how to use it.

Windows 7 was one of the better things to happen over all business-wise (sorry, folks, XP doesn't hold a candle, despite the fact we all used it so long -- for the average user anyway). I can't imagine that 8 is going to be even remotely close to that level of improvement.

Fluorescent Testicle: Frankly, I'm still annoyed at being forced to upgrade from 7 to XP. Yeah, it looks nice and it runs well, but it has so many points of annoyance behind it (the search function sucks, the folder windows suck, those popups every time I try to open Photoshop suck, the lack of software compatibility sucks, that motherraping mini-preview that pops up every time I rest the cursor on the taskbar makes me want to murder things)... Forget 8 and its horrific phone-esque UI, I just want them to start offering XP again.

/Or, ideally, some new version that looks and acts exactly like XP with the stability of 7.
/Only person on Earth who prefers XP to 7, but hey.

You are NOT alone.

Frankly, I'm still annoyed at being forced to upgrade from 7 to XP. Yeah, it looks nice and it runs well, but it has so many points of annoyance behind it (the search function sucks, the folder windows suck, those popups every time I try to open Photoshop suck, the lack of software compatibility sucks, that motherraping mini-preview that pops up every time I rest the cursor on the taskbar makes me want to murder things)... Forget 8 and its horrific phone-esque UI, I just want them to start offering XP again.

/Or, ideally, some new version that looks and acts exactly like XP with the stability of 7.
/Only person on Earth who prefers XP to 7, but hey.

well somehow about half my post was eaten by the fark monster.....

Windows 95 was not exactly great, but it was better than 3.x in every measurable way.
Then the second release of 95 added USB support,
then 98,
then 98 SE,
Me was an improvement over 98, but a waste of time IMHO
XP was a huge leap forward
Vista was fine, provided that you were willing to spend 20 minutes tuning it to work the way you wanted
7 best release evar

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I happen to disagree.
Windows 3.xWindows 8.

Windows has improved dramatically with every release, until now. Windows 8 is a leap backward in terms of usability and looks like shiat. But hey, maybe they can make some hipster tools happy like Apple does.

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Personally I had no issues with 95 or vista. It was just a matter of knowing how to work on your own system, vs crying because you dont understand puters

Which version of 95 though, 95a or 95b (aka OSR2)? The majority of people with issues on 95 were using the original release, the majority who had zero problems with 95 were on OSR2.

I had 95a and it liked to eat it's own system files.

Metro looks suspiciously like a resurgence of Active Desktop which we all thought was long dead.

Windows 8 is the second coming of Microsoft Bob.

MaxxLarge: Sorry, Microsoft. You can force-feed people all the excrement you like...But they're not ever going to suddenly decide it's delicious overnight.

I look forward to the Microsoft Mojave 2.0 commercials.

johnnyq:
//I haven't tried the preview, so I have no idea how messy it is on the desktop, but I'll give it a try when it's released.

For the most part once you turn Metro off (as much as you can turn if off) you come face to face with something that looks suspiciously like Windows 7.

I'm not totally convinced it'll do THAT well, it just feels like it's going to hit the same problem Vista did (to one degree or another): the majority of people wanted XP-SP4 (replace with 7-SP2) and not a whole new OS.

Metro itself looks to be a good tablet UI and some of it's features would be quite nifty on a desktop UI.. but it feels like Microsoft have just wholesale copied the tablet UI in to the desktop source tree and gone "Done."

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WINDOWS 3.11 WAS NOT GOOD AND WINDOWS 95 WAS NOT shiat. AND IT COMPLETELY IGNORES WINDOWS 2000 AND NT. STOP POSTING THIS. STOP. JUST farkING STOP POSTING THIS, IT IS NOT INSIGHTFUL AND IT HAS CEASED TO BE FUNNY. STOP STOP STOP STOP AAHHHHHRHRRHRHHRHRHRHGWRRGBLLLL

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That's the idea. You liked Seven? So buy eight as we shove stupidity like iPad inspired interfaces at you.

How about I keep the one I'm comfortable with and you let the OEMs sell machines without software.

I just got an e-mail about my TechNet subscription renewal, so I'm getting a kick out of this thread.

Don't link to the actual article, Subby. Let's link to a Slashdot thread where people talk about the article.

If I wanted to read Slashdot, I'd be on Slashdot.