Who plans on going to Windows 8 and who's sticking with Windows 7?

Are you upgrading to Windows 8?

  • Upgrading to Windows 8

    Votes: 120 38.1%

  • Sticking with Windows 7

    Votes: 186 59.0%

  • Going to other OS (linux/MacOS/etc)

    Votes: 9 2.9%
  • Total voters
    315
123Lanoix said:
before everyone passes judgement on windows 8 you guys should all at least try out the windows 8 rtm trial and play around with it for a couple of days. you will be surprised how quickly you grab the new interface.
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I did ;)

was unuseable on a laptop touchpad, with a mouse it was inefficient at best. Everything takes more clicks to complete.
 
123Lanoix said:
before everyone passes judgement on windows 8 you guys should all at least try out the windows 8 rtm trial and play around with it for a couple of days. you will be surprised how quickly you grab the new interface.
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I've used it quite extensivly in VMware and on an old laptop. I gave it an honest chance and even showed it off to some friends and family but I can honestly say that I can't stand using it. I don't find anything about it appealing, outside of the desktop.... which I already have with Windows 7. The start screen I can sort of dig, but the fact that it's completely seperated from the desktop is a turnoff.

For mobile apps, I already have a smart phone :p
 
dr.stevil said:
For mobile apps, I already have a smart phone :p
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Lots of people have smart phones but I they really can't do the things that x86 Windows 8 tablets can do. You're not at all limited to mobile apps and sandboxing on an x86 device, though they are expensive and don't have the battery life of ARM devices.

Windows 8/RT offers a very complex array of devices and mobile apps are just one part of it.
 
dr.stevil said:
I've used it quite extensivly in VMware and on an old laptop. I gave it an honest chance and even showed it off to some friends and family but I can honestly say that I can't stand using it. I don't find anything about it appealing, outside of the desktop.... which I already have with Windows 7. The start screen I can sort of dig, but the fact that it's completely seperated from the desktop is a turnoff.

For mobile apps, I already have a smart phone :p
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i guess iam looking at it all differently. I like the fact i can use some of the apps i like on my phone on my desktop. I like the pandora app and tune in app and the tweetro app that is in the start menu. I like to have these things running in the background listening to them while i work in my desktop environment and i have no trouble switching back and forth using the cursor or i can use a keyboard shortcut. I guess i just like being able to use my smartphone apps and my desktop apps at the same time on one device. That is what appeals to me about this OS. Also the performance is really good and i can still customize everything. I have power access by hitting windows key and "X". i'm not really missing the old start button. I guess iam just insane for liking it so far. I just wanted to add that i also like the history bar on the left hand side which i find really helpful in getting back to where i had been recently.
 
Sticking with Windows 7.


I tried the Windows 8 Pro RTM and hated it. The back and forth between two drastically different UI's sucks. Microsoft should have either saved Metro and continued working on it for W9 or give it to people now without anything else. The idea of giving users a "half-new" product is what is going to kill this OS. Nothing flows for me at all when trying to work inside W8.
 
haven't decided

win8 has some nice stuff (file transfer stuff ..new taskmgr..boot time enhancement and all...etc)

but not honestly after running win8 vm's for months in love with not-metro


haven't decided...I may well move my rig to win8 eventually.
 
Sticking with Win7 on my desktop and laptops, like most Windows OS's, it'll be Win9 that "gets it right" IMO

I don't need a Metro theme on my desktop, and there are no new features in Win8 that I need or appeal to me. Everything Win7 supports is all I need right now. Since DX12 will release for Win7, I'm all good.

However, if I get a Tablet, I am interested in Win8 on a tablet, for example MS's Surface, this tablet is high on my interest list. Also, if I ever get a Windows phone, I'd want a Win8 phone. I think Win8's Metro theme is best suited for a phone or tablet, but not a desktop or laptop, IMO.
 
Save the tablet/mobile style OS for those respective devices... nothing compelling for me to switch... and I was an early adopter of 95, 98, ME, XP/2000, Vista, and 7.
 
im sure this has been answered but.. how is driver support and game support on windows 8?


does msi afterburner work?




gaming and driver support is great on windows 7. if it is the same or better i will buy windows 8 since i have never actually owned an OS and I think its time to grow up :p



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I like the new price point of this new OS. its smart of them. because it encourages me to actually buy a legit copy. I meant before it was what 199$ for a ultimate windows 7? what a load of shit. This is much better.. I just bought it on Amazon for 70$. Even if I dont use it right away, atleast I own it for when SP1 comes out
 
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Since Windows 8 is built on Windows 7, it uses mostly the same drivers as Windows 7. I'm still having some flash hardware acceleration issues, but I blame that on nVidia drivers. As for programs, everything I normally used on Windows 7 works with Windows 8. Except for TF2 early on, kept crashing once I got in game (once again, I blamed nVidia drivers, new drivers fixed that).
 
Staying with 7 unless MS gives me a real reason to go to 8. I might end up with one of those Surface's that run 8, though.
 
For those of you going to 8 and doing the start menu tweak. Is there a way to replace the hot corners with something similar to the android launcher? Like rocket dock type thing for the Metro - Settings Pane - Full screen apps?
 
Sticking with Windows 7, no compelling reason for me to switch OS on any of my PCs.
 
Without reading the previous posts, I'm just gonna post my opinion. I work as an IT tech for a university and we handle the whole range of faculty, staff and student issues. The biggest thing I am worried about right now is the whole range of PCs with Win 8 installed and the problems that students (most are not into tech as much as I am) are going to bring to me or any of my team. From the time that I've played with Win 8, including today, I've been utterly frustrated with the implementation of the touch UI and the desktop UI and how they communicate with each other.

Things such as image previews with folders of pictures. You open one image and it defaults to the Metro (I will continue to say it until they get a better name that rolls off the tongue, screw that German company). Well that's fine...until you want to look at the rest of the photos in the folder. You have to tell the Metro app to browse that particular folder to view the rest. Of course, you can always right click the photo and click Preview, which opens up the Windows Image Viewer (like it should have in Desktop mode) and you can view all the photos in the folder that you want. It's little things like this that will piss me off to no end.

So I will be skipping this upgrade for the time being. From the benchmarks that I've seen and from what I've read, there just doesn't seem to be enough IMO to warrant an upgrade right now. Sorry, Microsoft.
 
markt435 said:
Things such as image previews with folders of pictures. You open one image and it defaults to the Metro (I will continue to say it until they get a better name that rolls off the tongue, screw that German company). Well that's fine...until you want to look at the rest of the photos in the folder. You have to tell the Metro app to browse that particular folder to view the rest. Of course, you can always right click the photo and click Preview, which opens up the Windows Image Viewer (like it should have in Desktop mode) and you can view all the photos in the folder that you want. It's little things like this that will piss me off to no end.
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This particular is fixed if you're using a local library folder. But there's going to be plenty of photo viewers in the app store if you don't like the default.
 
heatlesssun said:
This particular is fixed if you're using a local library folder. But there's going to be plenty of photo viewers in the app store if you don't like the default.
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True, but still...it seems pretty silly that Windows 8 essentially has 2 photo viewers. One is crippled, the other isn't. I can understand opening the Metro viewer while in Metro, but if one is in Desktop mode, Metro apps shouldn't be opening by default. It would be like opening IE in Desktop mode and getting the Metro version. Doesn't make sense. These kinds of nonsensical decisions are what drive me bonkers while using it.
 
Cross post from another thread - I did it for my laptop which I don't use very often. Not sure if I care for it honestly. I installed the start8 start menu replacement. From my short experience with it it seems counter intuitive on a laptop/desktop. I tried the Newegg app and it is much slower to find what you want than using their website. Opening a picture from the windows explorer on the desktop opened up a modern UI program and to get back to where I was I have to go to the start menu again and click on desktop. I used the Mail app and couldn't drag an email to a folder, I had to right click it and then go to the menu bar at the bottom of the screen, then click move, then click on the folder to move it to I was one of the few who didn't bash Vista, but damn I don't know if I could ever like this tablet interface on a desktop PC.

Basically it seems like a pretty neat tablet OS, but just horrible on a desktop in my opinion. Granted I've only used it for about an hr, but what the hell...
 
lathode said:
Cross post from another thread - I did it for my laptop which I don't use very often. Not sure if I care for it honestly. I installed the start8 start menu replacement. From my short experience with it it seems counter intuitive on a laptop/desktop. I tried the Newegg app and it is much slower to find what you want than using their website. Opening a picture from the windows explorer on the desktop opened up a modern UI program and to get back to where I was I have to go to the start menu again and click on desktop. I used the Mail app and couldn't drag an email to a folder, I had to right click it and then go to the menu bar at the bottom of the screen, then click move, then click on the folder to move it to I was one of the few who didn't bash Vista, but damn I don't know if I could ever like this tablet interface on a desktop PC.

Basically it seems like a pretty neat tablet OS, but just horrible on a desktop in my opinion. Granted I've only used it for about an hr, but what the hell...
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I actually like the Newegg app, it displays more results and is pretty zippy on the machines I've used it on, plus you get ShellShocker updates on the tile. Missing a few features but overall I think it's nice shopping app.

As for navigation, I don't now if your laptop supports this, some older machines will, but you can slide from the left edge with one finger and flip though apps. If you were last on the desktop before you went into a Metro app, a flick to the left gets you back to the desktop. You can of course use the hot corners and Windows Key+D will always take you back to the desktop.
 
markt435 said:
True, but still...it seems pretty silly that Windows 8 essentially has 2 photo viewers. One is crippled, the other isn't. I can understand opening the Metro viewer while in Metro, but if one is in Desktop mode, Metro apps shouldn't be opening by default. It would be like opening IE in Desktop mode and getting the Metro version. Doesn't make sense. These kinds of nonsensical decisions are what drive me bonkers while using it.
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Yep, that's one of the things that annoyed me as well. There needs to be an option during installation or first use to define what the default programs are, instead of defaulting it to just Metro.

At least once you change it, you never have to bother with it again, so it's a one time thing (for the most part).
 
Tsumi said:
Yep, that's one of the things that annoyed me as well. There needs to be an option during installation or first use to define what the default programs are, instead of defaulting it to just Metro.

At least once you change it, you never have to bother with it again, so it's a one time thing (for the most part).
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Yeah, I guess this would be a nice option, but at the same time I actually think a lot of people would like the Metro Photo Viewer better than the desktop one. I understand that the local photo viewing could be better but if you setup a Microsoft account it gives you access to photos on Facebook, Flickr, and other sites and a lot more people are people pictures in the cloud than on local devices these days.
 
I always love learning a new OS, so I have my laptop upgraded already ($15 upgrade offer) and I'll get my copy for my desktop in the mail today. The 5 second cold boot time on my Ultrabook is awesome as is it coming out of hibernate before the lid is even fully open.

The day I stop enjoying learning new hardware/software is the day I quit my job and leave the IT field.
 
Going to stay on windows 7 for now , and just virtualize ubuntu and windows 8 in vmware.

So far win 8 is running smooth in vmware 9 , just don't see the need to run it as my primary os as windows 7 runs fine, and I don't feel like putting windows 8 on a usb drive or burn the .iso ...
 
heatlesssun said:
Yeah, I guess this would be a nice option, but at the same time I actually think a lot of people would like the Metro Photo Viewer better than the desktop one. I understand that the local photo viewing could be better but if you setup a Microsoft account it gives you access to photos on Facebook, Flickr, and other sites and a lot more people are people pictures in the cloud than on local devices these days.
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I don't use Flickr or any other online sites, and my photos are stored on a secondary drive, not in the usual places. Also, I don't want a full screen app to takeover viewing my pictures, not to mention that app can't go through the other photos in the folder.

Really annoying when I want to go through downloaded manga.
 
Mr.Dospod said:
Going to stay on windows 7 for now , and just virtualize ubuntu and windows 8 in vmware.

So far win 8 is running smooth in vmware 9 , just don't see the need to run it as my primary os as windows 7 runs fine, and I don't feel like putting windows 8 on a usb drive or burn the .iso ...
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I am doing the same as you exactly both os's in VM's on a win7 host. I will be assessing which of the 2 I use after win7 goes EOL, microsoft going crazy on the UI has made me reconsider windows as a long term solution.

Especially after using parted manager boot image and finding that xorg is not a too bad UI.
 
I'm not opposed to Windows 8 but I cannot see any reason to upgrade right now. They might have made some improvements under the hood but I bet they didn't fix the real problems with explorer, i.e. if you have a bad network connection startup is slow, if you accidently click on a network drive that doesn't exist explorer is pretty much looked up and you can't browse any other folders until the "timeout" happens.
 
Meant and optimized for tablets and touch interfaces - and the more you use it, the more you'll resent it
Treatment of the desktop as an App is an out and out disaster
Window management, task switching are a pain in the ass
Switching between Metro apps is a pain in the ass with convoluted mouse gestures
Core apps that offer basic OS functionality are metro only. And they're terrible.
The email app is horrendous
The instant messaging app TAKES UP THE ENTIRE SCREEN
The calendar is god awful and unworkable
The video and music players are abysmal. Slow, interface is clunky, good luck finding what you want to play. And good luck if they're on a network share.
The metro based IE is terrible
The charms bar is bafflingly unusable
If you're using Metro apps there's no clock
The first time you try to figure out how to shut down it will take 10-30 min

I really wish I was making this up. What it comes down to is this: Windows 8 is a tax on your brain. That dealing with it, day in, day out adds to your world being slightly worse in a dozen different but slightly irritating ways. I've so far just tried to deal - for the sake of the under-the-hood-improvements over Win7 (which, honestly, aren't very noticeable outside of benchmarks), but the feeling when turning it on the morning ranks right up there with putting on a pair of dirty underwear.
 
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I am using Windows 8 because I have to, most techs will also HAVE to just to get familiar with it, once I feel I have it down, I will switch back to Windows 7. Metro is just so damn ugly.
 
Grimmy311 said:
I am using Windows 8 because I have to, most techs will also HAVE to just to get familiar with it, once I feel I have it down, I will switch back to Windows 7. Metro is just so damn ugly.
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Doing that now. Waiting for students at my university to start bringing in questions with their new laptops or upgrades...ugh
 
odditory said:
Meant and optimized for tablets and touch interfaces - and the more you use it, the more you'll resent it
Treatment of the desktop as an App is an out and out disaster
Window management, task switching are a pain in the ass
Switching between Metro apps is a pain in the ass with convoluted mouse gestures
Core apps that offer basic OS functionality are metro only. And they're terrible.
The email app is horrendous
The instant messaging app TAKES UP THE ENTIRE SCREEN
The calendar is god awful and unworkable
The video and music players are abysmal. Slow, interface is clunky, good luck finding what you want to play. And good luck if they're on a network share.
The metro based IE is terrible
The charms bar is bafflingly unusable
If you're using Metro apps there's no clock
The first time you try to figure out how to shut down it will take 10-30 min

I really wish I was making this up.
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None of those are really problems since like all of them are optional things you can do with Metro if you want to.
 
I gave into the hype and installed 8 today. The only reason I switched back to 7 from my Msdn key a few months ago was there was no media center. Now that its free, I'm going to give it a shot now.
 
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