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RE: Windows 8 the savior ???
By drycrust3 on 11/17/2012 12:12:19 PM , Rating: 2
There are 64 bit Linux distributions as well.

RE: Windows 8 the savior ???
By Cypherdude1 on 11/18/2012 7:23:27 AM , Rating: 2
Does anyone was really thinking that Windows 8 will bring people in drove to update their pc/laptops ? Windows 8 is such a radical move and bring nothing enticing to that platform. Why change your machine if W7 does everything you want just fine.
For non-touchscreen devices, Win8 Pro has a lot of extra code the user will never use. Win8 Pro has code for both touchscreens and the regular desktop with the start button. This is what I understand from viewing a review.

M$ is following a familiar pattern of producing an excellent O/S and then releasing a poor O/S: Win98SE, WinME, WinXP, WinVista, Win7, and now Win8 Pro. Intel has their tick-tock release policy, M$ has their's (a little PC humor there, heh, heh):

If you have Win7-64, there's no reason to upgrade to Win8 Pro unless you have a touchscreen. Most desktops and laptops don't have one. Others here have stated some (many?) programs will not work in Win8 Pro. I hope this is not true because, someday, I may buy a Win8 Pro quad-core, quad-speaker 15.6" tablet, upgrade it to 8 GB RAM, 256 GB mSATA and run some serious applications on it.

RE: Windows 8 the savior ???
By StevoLincolnite on 11/19/2012 7:29:29 AM , Rating: 2
Except... The release didn't go 98 > ME > XP > Vista > 7.

You are forgetting Windows NT and most importantly, Windows 2000. - Which was pretty much released at a similar time to Windows ME if I remember rightly.
And worthy to note is that Windows 2000 had more in common with Windows XP than what Windows ME had, as XP was built on the NT kernel and not Win9x.
I remember people at the time claiming XP was just Windows 2000 with a pretty new skin as all the drivers and software pretty much worked in either OS, which was true for the time, until a few service packs later.

As for Vista, it did have a shaky release, most of the issues have been pretty much been fixed a long time ago, most of Vista's problems could be blamed on the hardware manufacturer's poor drivers.

RE: Windows 8 the savior ???
By retrospooty on 11/19/2012 10:38:55 AM , Rating: 2
"The release didn't go 98 > ME > XP > Vista > 7."

From a consumer product perspective it did go 98 > ME > XP > Vista > 7. NT and 2000 were not consumer products. XP was the first one that got rid of the crappy Win95 kernel and used the stable NT kernel in a consumer based OS.

To that I totally agree. MS has a long history of "hit and miss". Win8 is the miss. Probably not as bad as Vista was a miss, but a miss. The UI is great for touchscreens and more irritating than useful for desktops and laptops.

RE: Windows 8 the savior ???


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