EvaUnit02 on 28/10/2012 at 00:07
Simple answer to whether or not you should upgrade:- Are you utterly happy with your current OS and most importantly does everything which you want it to do?
The stapling of two entirely different UI design paradigms tailored for very specific input methods will not gel with the majority of consumers in the immediate few years, IMO. A happy medium between the two won't come during Win 8's life cycle, as the days of sweeping upgrades coming through service packs is over (MS SPs are now glorified cumulative patches) - we'll have to wait until Windows 9 in late 2014.
Also Albert is clearly 12 years old.
Renzatic on 28/10/2012 at 02:31
If it weren't just $40, I probably would've skipped out on the upgrade. It's a solid OS, and I actually like the new start screen, but at the end of the day, it's mostly an under the hood tweak up to Windows 7. It's a little quicker, a bit thinner on the resources, better battery life, an easier to navigate and organize start menu, nixing Aero everywhere save the taskbar...things that are nice, but not absolutely OH I MUST HAVE IT FOR IT WILL CHANGE MY COMPUTER USAGE FOREVER!
It's worth $40 to me, but you probably shouldn't feel like you're missing out if you decide to wait til 9.
Albert on 28/10/2012 at 03:25
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
Also Albert is clearly 12 years old.
Yeesh, step on a guy will ya? I'm just bitter about Vista still, is all. Things have been wrong ever since that OS came out. And maybe you are right, that they are canning the whole updates thing. But hey, Microsoft is predictable on most fronts (trying to reinvent the wheel, and running back with their tail between their legs after it fails) so why not wait and see? Maybe it'll just be the same crap as usual.
EDIT: Anyways, it's just as well that Windows 8 has come about. This isn't 2005, where we didn't have the internet-oriented devices we have today. Microsoft may be onto something, as pitiful as it is to think about for a mild traditionalist, such as myself.
Dahenjo on 28/10/2012 at 05:06
Thief ran well on Win8, but I had other issues with a couple programs that I'd kept from Win7, so restored the backup Win7 partition I luckily made first. I'll try it again on a spare hard drive without keeping old settings and programs, then reinstall them fresh and see if it works out better. None of the issues were flagged by the Upgrade Assistant you run prior to installing, btw.
It was pretty nice in some ways ... Firefox was really fast, navigating around the OS was very quick & responsive despite the glaring differences, and a lot is still the same like Control Panel, Windows/File Explorer, Desktop, etc.
This was on a non-touch desktop (good recent 64-bit system), but for whatever reason I couldn't get any of the Metro tiles to do anything, and saw no apparent way to configure them, but really didn't spend much time on it before bailing. Seeing that Thief works was the main thing, so it has potential, otherwise forget it! :p
Albert on 28/10/2012 at 19:55
Lol, yeah, me and a few other people got carried away with talking about Windows 8 (I'll take most of the blame, since I started it).
I say mods, can we close this thread and, in Mythbusters fashion, call it [CONFIRMED]? :cheeky:
