Some interesting info

[dneilson]

http://www.extremetech.com/computing...t-a-standstill

[cdroman]

I'm amazed at the number of people using XP. That was such a pain in the butt for me when my friends/relatives had it; so glad none have it now.

[falcon2000]

It will be interesting to see if laptop sales has been slowing down b/c of Win 8. Most laptops now come with Win 8. I for one am putting off buying a new laptop b/c the relative lack of choices of new Win 7 laptops.

[HAN]

Maybe Windows 8 is the Star Trek V of operating systems??

[SpywareDr]

Windows 8 is turning out to be a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space.

It's hard to fathom that Microsoft even expected a product that irritates and upsets 90 percent of its potential market to sell.

[cdroman]

Yeah, the average person does not adapt easily, or learn easily; and that is at least 90% of people. Should make for some good bargains in the near future. I'm looking forward to them. )

[jdc2000]

One big issue that Microsoft has missed the boat on, not only with Windows 8 but with Office and with their user interface changes in general, is that they have significantly increased the amount of time it takes to navigate through their new interfaces to find the items you need to access. They have not actually made things easier to find and use, they are harder to find and take more time to use. People not only do not have time to learn a new interface, they don't have any extra time to dig through it to get to the items they need, even after they learn how to do so.

The Office ribbon bar takes 3 to 5 times the number of mouse clicks and movements to perform the same function that the Office 2003 menus take, and, even worse, if you set the ribbon bar where you want it, it changes back to what Microsoft thinks it should be set to if you click on something.

Microsoft is also removing the ability to change the interfaces so that you don't have to relearn where everything is. In addition to Windows 8, Internet Explorer 9 has removed to ability to move the Tabs and menu items to where you want. Microsoft seems determined to force its customers to take more time from their already overloaded schedules to learn a newer, but not better or faster, way of doing the same old things.

[Jim1]

After all's said and down, or near done, wouldn't it just be much simpler to stick with Win 7 and variants. After all, Win 8 is really Win 7, only shrouded in mystery. Unless you have a touch-screen monitor, Win 7 seems to be the better course of prudenced. AND, after all, the first service pack for Win 8 has yet to hit the fan, or be available for download. I'm sure the boys in the backroom are hard at work listening to all our bitching. :-) Jim S