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As Benny Hill once said:

Tit for Tat?

OK.

TAT!! TAT!!

 

 

It wasn't supposed to be a scientific study. It was just an indication that whilst some people are very loudly objecting to Win8, that doesn't mean that everyone hates it.

Wrong.  Those search results are 100% meaningless, due to the fact that Google sucks.  Any page which contains the words "Windows 8" and "great" will show up in the search results, even if the word "great" is used for something completely unrelated to Windows 8.  And, if you dig into the search results a little (basically anything beyond the first couple of pages of results) you'll find that most  pages contain "great" but no mention at all of Windows 8 at all.  That's why there are 24 Million results for "Windows 8 killer pigeon".

 

Apr 17, 2012 at 7:36 PM, blowdart wrote

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I hope I look as good as Shatner when I'm 80.

 

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2 days ago, evildictaitor wrote

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why upgrade to Windows-8 and then downgrade the UI with hacks, when you could just stick with Windows7?

And I will bet that's exactly what a lot of people will do.  I predict that Windows 7 will become the new Windows XP -- still heavily used 10 years from now.

 

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10 hours ago, wastingtimewithforums wrote

If I don't get flying cars in ten years from now, I will be really disappointed.

Some things may look cool, but even in 2022 no one sane will be really working on a tablet. Unless you plug in your mouse, keyboard, monitor...  and in that case you get a desktop computer again.

Exactly right.

Right now I'm typing this message from a computer with a 6 core CPU, 16GB of RAM, 3 TB of disk space and a 27 inch monitor.  Why in the world would I replace that with a 9 inch screen, no mouse, no keyboard, severely limited storage space and not even a USB port to connect an external drive.  Sorry, that's just nuts.

 I don't want to watch movies on a 3 inch phone screen.  I don't want to type e-mails on the virtual keyboard of a 7 inch tablet.  I don't need to have a computer with me every where I go.  And when I do need to take a computer with me I have a very nice laptop, with a 16 inch screen, Quad-Core CPU, 8 GB RAM.  Not to mention, a real keyboard and mouse.

Tablets are strictly a niche item.  For certain things they are very good, but they are not general purpose computers and never will be.

 

 

1 day ago, Bass wrote

Microsoft is really not risking all that much even if Windows 8 will be a failure. Because that just means Windows 7 will be a success. And guess who makes Windows 7?

I think Windows 7 will become the new XP -- 10 years from now people will still be using it because there is no compelling reason to upgrade.

 

8 hours ago, figuerres wrote

for an arm tablet it might be ok. but for a lot of normal use -  FORGET IT!

That's the biggest problem with Windows 8 -- trying to make a "one size fits all" operating system.  It just doesn't work.  Tablets and desktops are two completely different things. 

I'm not a fan of Apple, but they got it right --- OSX for the desktop and iOS for the iPad and iPhone.  Microsoft should have done the same --- Windows 8 for Desktops which would retain the basic design of Windows 7 and continue the evolution of Vista --> Win 7 --> Win 8 and a separate Windows 8 Metro for tablets and phones.

 

My reaction to Win 8 CP: