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Poll Results: Will you buy Windows 8 ?

 
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    Yes and give reasons
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    No and give reasons
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post #371 of 623
6/10/12 at 4:07am
Nope unless I build a HTPC I may... I feel the UI is just all touch vs better overall on O.S.. I also feel MS visual of the touch squares and color scheme just looks like something out of kindergarten... It just does not look all that great to me... But well will see if other features will be added to pull me in...
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post #372 of 623
6/10/12 at 4:14am
If for no other reason the fact that you can now have the taskbar across both screens (or more) is worth the price of admission.

I don't think it will be Microsoft's next Vista, the driver and software compatibility is there and holistically it isn't that different from Windows 7 but it does have a lot of under the hood improvements.

I see Metro as just an expanded start menu. There was no reason why the start menu was so small and even though it may be aimed at touch, it is much easier to click on large tiles than it is to click on small icons.
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post #373 of 623
6/10/12 at 4:14am
I bet most of you will buy it tongue.gif, so much uneducated negativity towards windows 8.

Stop being sheep and re posting others re posted opinions...
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post #374 of 623
6/10/12 at 4:35am
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I bet most of you will buy it tongue.gif, so much uneducated negativity towards windows 8.

So much fanboism as well, I can tell by some of the pixels and a complete lack of any argument as to why some of the "uneducated" people are wrong when they say they don't need Windows 8 thumb.gif
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Stop being sheep and re posting others re posted opinions...

... and start being a different kind of sheep, the one that will buy a marginally improved OS with an impractical UI stapled onto it. tongue.gif
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post #375 of 623
6/10/12 at 8:43am
No because I do not like how they dumped the start menu. And YES I have used it. I don't want a touch UI on my desktop, maybe if they made a tablet edition and a desktop edition then yeah I would buy it. Maybe the desktop edition could be like XP, less bloated, least recourse consuming, and maybe give it a new look, I have a guide that was able to get me down to 600 or less mb of ram being used while doing nothing. Maybe I should share that with them and it could be a built in option for those who don't need all dat fancy sheet. If Windows 8 was less of a touch screen based OS then of course I would buy it. If you have an XBOX 360 and are updated 100% then you know that it is based off of windows 8 look.
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post #376 of 623
6/10/12 at 4:10pm
I could get used to using the ribbons and the navigation differences between 7 & 8 but since there is no image software on 8 that is a deal breaker for me.
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6/10/12 at 4:13pm
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No, I just don't see any reason for me to upgrade at this time.

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post #378 of 623
6/10/12 at 4:16pm
No thanks, not going through the hassle of running games in any sort of "compatability mode" like I did with my old games when I went with 7.
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post #379 of 623
6/10/12 at 4:18pm
No, I dont buy OS's... I already bought all the hardware. And Win7 is fine.
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post #380 of 623
6/10/12 at 4:19pm
Yes. It's blazing fast, and I actually like metro.
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