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Originally Posted by 3930K 

Same here.
I'm a 13 yo very open to change, while the majority of OCN is not.

Originally Posted by 47 Knucklehead 


Pardon me for saying this, and it really doesn't have anything to do with Windows 8 specifically, but it does speak to your age and your position in general, and I really don't wish to insult you because of your age, but I feel I must say this as someone who is older and who ISN'T afraid of change either ...

Accepting change for the sake change isn't a sign of being "open to change", but rather it is a sign of inexperience and blind faith acceptance in a cult of personality.

Originally Posted by 3930K 

However Windows 8 isn't change for the sake of change. Sure, if it was just a metro'd copy of Win7 I would've skipped it, but it it much, much more.

Originally Posted by 47 Knucklehead 


There is NOTHING in Windows 8 that COULDN'T have been implemented in a Windows 7 Service Pack.

Originally Posted by 3930K 

Have they (and are they) going to release a such service pack? Very, very unlikely.

Originally Posted by 47 Knucklehead 


I agree, which is the point of this thread.

They are very unlikely going to release such a service pack, which they could, but since traditionally service packs are free, Microsoft would rather stop releasing a SP for 7 ... especially one that would give 7 the functions (less Metro), security, and performance enhancements of Windows 8 ... when they could easily make money off of selling what basically amounts to "Windows 7.1 with an ugly interface" (in my opinion).

Originally Posted by 47 Knucklehead 

Pardon me for saying this, and it really doesn't have anything to do with Windows 8 specifically, but it does speak to your age and your position in general, and I really don't wish to insult you because of your age, but I feel I must say this as someone who is older and who ISN'T afraid of change either ...
Accepting change for the sake change isn't a sign of being "open to change", but rather it is a sign of inexperience and blind faith acceptance in a cult of personality.
Windows 8 will be a good OS (Metro aside). Partly because Microsoft is investing a lot of time and money into it, and partly because they are (apparently abandoning real development ... ie no more service packs ... on Windows 7), it has nothing to do with being force fed Metro, because Microsoft wants to make the desktop, laptop, phone, and tablets all look the same. That has more to do with the fact that they want to save money ... by reducing multiple platforms. They are now going to be programming their GUI to the lowest common denominator ... and that ISN'T the desktop.
If Microsoft had added what they did for the past 20 years, and put in a built in Interface selection and allowed users to run in "Classic View", then 95% of the arguments about NOT wanting to upgrade would have vanished. But Microsoft make a conscience choice to ram Metro down peoples throats for a new corporate change to better compete with Apple. Microsoft has caused 100% of the hate with Windows 8, they could have EASILY avoided it, but THEY chose not to.

Originally Posted by 3930K 

That would be cannibalizing their own market, and would be one of the stupidest corporate move ever.
I f they did it they'd need to put the Windows Store in at the very least.

Originally Posted by Giac 

Just look at how mobile operating systems have changed the way their desktop counterparts look, people are eating up the latest versions of OS X.

Originally Posted by IcedEarth 


I did read the thread and if you read my post I concluded that Windows 7 doesn't have any problems, it is you guys that have the problem.

Seriously, boohoo, 2 hours of downloading updates. Get over it. There's bigger things to worry about in life rather than a background operation on your PC that doesn't affect productivity.

Originally Posted by SimpleTech 


And yet you don't slipstream your updates. Amazing.