I disagree - for the most part the desktop / taskbar thing lets me manage multiple applications how I feel best. Nothings ever perfect, but at least I get the flexibility. Every time I find myself stuck in a Metro app, though, I just hate it.
I'm not a power user. I quite like the look of win8. I need a new computer though so whatever I end up getting will probably have it on anyway. Unless I get a MacBook.
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Windows 8 desktop performance is easily equal to, sometimes better depending on the task, than Windows 7 on my 3 year old Core i7. If the old UI is emulated, it's the worlds best emulator ever.
I'm guessing whoever wrote what you read was getting confused between Windows 8 Pro and RT or was just plain making shit up.
Yep, you're not wrong. As I said on Facebook, if I simply pretend Metro doesn't exist (Which, day to day, it doesn't to me) then it's easily as good or better as 7.
Mind you, I've now got an SSD and 8GB of RAM, so my laptop is flying!
Yeah, as I said, it was way before release, so was probably just a misinterpretation or or a misunderstanding on my part. Of no importance though whether it is or isn't.
Well, with Vista it was drivers. This time MS seem to have made a complete fuck up of Windows update. In particular, updates that won't configure and then take an (uninterruptable) wet-weekend to roll back. Worse with upgrades from Windows 7 apparently, but all flavours including clean installs are hit.
I first noticed when my very first update failed to configure and then spent 40 minutes rolling back. A cursory check showed a few other people with similar issues
If I'm reading the right article(s), it's drivers to blame again? Nothing new there in my experience, drivers have always been the plague of Windows updates and services packs. Especially when using drivers intended for a previous OS as I would assume a lot of people are right now (me included).
Yes drivers, but also some services - including native Windows 8 services, and the legendary 'conflict with virus scanners, and a few other things as well. Not sure what they've changed that's making update so unreliable.
