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by **boomerang** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 11:02 am

anyone played with it yet?...

i installed an upgrade over a WIN xp drive in my system...well it's different...
nightmare in getting around...No start button for starters...i never thought much of the start button, but now i miss it...a lot...kinda feeling lost without it...fixed with the purchase of Start8 from stardock...

Now win8 looks and feels much better...

Also i didn't find the tablet look friendly...I have trouble with using 3 monitors...if your default monitor is the center one, the tablet environment works on the default screen and scrolls left and right within the screen...looks very weird...but all fixed with start8

I am not quite sure what to make of this move from microsoft...that forces you to go out and buy a $50 package just to use their operating system...they should have made in an option...

here is the link for the start button...you will need it if you are using win8
http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/

by **cyprusgrump** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 11:54 am

boomerang wrote:anyone played with it yet?...

i installed an upgrade over a WIN xp drive in my system...well it's different...
nightmare in getting around...No start button for starters...i never thought much of the start button, but now i miss it...a lot...kinda feeling lost without it...fixed with the purchase of Start8 from stardock...

Now win8 looks and feels much better...

Also i didn't find the tablet look friendly...I have trouble with using 3 monitors...if your default monitor is the center one, the tablet environment works on the default screen and scrolls left and right within the screen...looks very weird...but all fixed with start8

I am not quite sure what to make of this move from microsoft...that forces you to go out and buy a $50 package just to use their operating system...they should have made in an option...

here is the link for the start button...you will need it if you are using win8
http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/

Not even looked at it....

i figure the last thing I need right now is to throw yet more money at Micro$oft.... :evil:

I'm still running Office 2003 and I gather it doesn't support it...?

by **umit07** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 12:42 pm

I tried it out on a Toshiba laptop a few weeks back before its original release and didn't like it much. The new "start" tablet-like interface is very confusing. I don't know who would want such a feature on a PC, I think many will miss the original start menu. Although I didn't fiddle around with it much my original thoughts were that it was pretty crap. ATM I am using Mac OS X and much prefer it to windows for daily muck around use, everything works much smoother.

by **Sotos** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 10:39 pm

I bought a laptop a while ago which came with win7 and allows me to upgrade to 8 Pro for $15 ... and I can get Win 8 and install it on another pc if I want. just because of this I am thinking to try 8 out ... I wouldn't pay the full price for it now. start8 seems to be $5, not $50. I am also using Office 2003 but I don't think I really need it. There are free apps that can deal with office documents and I really don't need anything more than the basic functionality from such programs.

by **Get Real!** » Fri Nov 02, 2012 3:04 am

boomerang wrote:No start button for starters...i never thought much of the start button, but now i miss it...a lot...kinda feeling lost without it...fixed with the purchase of Start8 from stardock...

So you miss the Start > Shut Down eh? :lol:

by **Get Real!** » Fri Nov 02, 2012 3:09 am

boomerang wrote:i installed an upgrade over a WIN xp drive in my system...well it's different...

But isn’t this aimed at touch screens?

I can imagine a waiter using this on a tablet at a restaurant to take orders which get sent wirelessly to the kitchen. Good stuff!

by **FragnaticDeath** » Fri Nov 02, 2012 5:21 am

Windows 8 is great for new users. Removes a lot of clutter that other previous windows had and allows the basic user to do the most basic stuff. It is also amazing with users that have eye sight problems. Well done Microsoft.

by **boomerang** » Fri Nov 02, 2012 9:14 am

Get Real! wrote:
boomerang wrote:No start button for starters...i never thought much of the start button, but now i miss it...a lot...kinda feeling lost without it...fixed with the purchase of Start8 from stardock...

So you miss the Start > Shut Down eh?

yeah...

simply put...it's back to school with the new beast...you can get around but what a maze...for a lot of win inexperienced people this will be a daunting task...
and to spice it even further server has the same interface...thank god for server 2003...simple and effective...i have them all...but they are stored away...

this is gonna backfire on MS big time...not for delivering something different but for delivering a half ass solution...it's gonna bite them...they need to bring back the dual appearance...

oh the power of the start button... :lol:

@sotos
I said $50 because it's worth getting the whole package...

@umit
long time no see, if you are free on saturdays I am at the factory all day...we need to catch up.