Windows 8 already sounds like it might be in trouble

[Liquid]

From the looks of things, my company won't be moving to it until Windows 7 isn't offered anymore. I might get it for my work laptop just to play with it though.

Companies are usually an OS behind. Most companies just skipped Vista all together and are now on Win 7.

They will probably hold out until Windows 9

 

[pbconnect]

I never understood the Vista hate. It had a few bugs a first, was fixed rather quickly
I use it on 2 of my 3 PC's. There isn't this vast difference from this and W7
I couldn't even tell you what the differences are besides the mild cosmetic ones

I recently upgraded my 9 year old computer from vista to windows 7.....it was like I had a whole new computer with win 7. Even when it was tweaked Vista is a terrible resource hog. I'm running windows 8 preview on my laptop and it ain't bad....you just have to get used to doing some things differently like shutting down the computer or picking a program. 85% of users probably don't need to get windows 8......and windows 7 will be supported until 2020.

 

[CTech83]

Companies are usually an OS behind. Most companies just skipped Vista all together and are now on Win 7.

They will probably hold out until Windows 9

Yeah, we copped Windows Vista ready machines that were setup with XP from the factory. We didnt start rolling out Windows 7 until about late 2010. Most of our engineers and the marketing department are on 7 now. Now we gotta work on the Billing department. I think you're right about them skipping 8 altogether.

 

[Golayitdown]

I never understood the Vista hate. It had a few bugs a first, was fixed rather quickly
I use it on 2 of my 3 PC's. There isn't this vast difference from this and W7
I couldn't even tell you what the differences are besides the mild cosmetic ones

Aside from what others said, they also allowed Vista to be pre installed on any bullshyt machine and got burned for it..... No reason it should have been shipping on computers with 512MB Ram....it ran like shyt on brand new hardware of you didn't have a beast machine..... XP was much more forgiving on slower HW...

 

[winb83]

Windows 8 looks like a half baked operating system the more i look at it. too heavily influenced by tablets and phone operating systems but some of the programs still run like desktop versions we have now and some of them are fully into that metro interface. that type of oversimplified visual layout works well on a phone but to me it doesn't belong on a desktop.

 

[HookersandIceCream]

No reason to upgrade unless its really cheap

 

[2gunsup]

fukk a Windows 8.

 

[Golayitdown]

Still on 7 on my desktop. Didn't play well in the first 10 minutes when I installed 8, so I fell back... It works like a charm on my laptops though.

 

[SwagmundFreud]

 

[King Sun]

dude, shut the fuk up

 

[Liquid]

No reason to upgrade unless its really cheap

it is really cheap to upgrade

 

[pbconnect]

i heard some stores are selling it early....

I wonder if they included a way to get a start button in the final release? If they didn't that would be stupid. If not I'm sure there will be plenty of third party solutions.

 

[courtdog]

dude, shut the fuk up

Why don't you make me, or YOU SHUT THE fukk UP

 

[Tom Foolery]

Ballmer needs to go.

 

[Swiggy]

I want XP back