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Old September 14th 18, 08:39 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default "Maybe all those people clinging to Windows 7 are on to something after all."

"Wolf K" wrote in message
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On 2018-09-14 14:50, Sam E wrote:
On 09/14/2018 10:10 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:

[snip]

I'm not clinging to Windows 7, because I've never had it [1], but I
*am* clinging to Windows 8.1, even while Windows 10 was *supposed* to be
better than 8.1 (Yeah, RIGHT! :-().


and doing a good job of demonstrating how "better" does NOT imply "good".
7 appears to be the best version (although XP isn't that bad).

[snip]



I prefer 8.1, but then I have Modern Mix, which avoids the "Metro" GUI.


In terms of UI, I think the peak of Windows perfection was XP or 7. Things
went downhill when they tried to make do without a start menu altogether, or
else grudgingly give us one which is the Win8/10 "mess of tiles".

I would say that Classic Shell (or an equivalent) is the one *essential*
package that is needed on any Win 8/10 PC to make it usable.

The real problem with Win 10 is that it doesn't have a proper
email/newsgroup client, now that Windows Live Mail has been withdrawn from
being available for download. The client built into Win10 is merely a toy,
which means you have to go for a paid-for client like Outlook (*) or else a
free program like Thunderbird which is good but has its problems - like not
being able to add recipients from the address book after you've opened a
blank email (as far as I can tell - you have to go the address book, select
users and then say "send to these people"). And I don't think Thunderbird
has the ability to select photos from a folder, say "send these photos by
email" and then *crucially* have it offer to shrink those photos from
camera size to 800x600 or whatever.



I'm sticking with my Win 7 PC for as long as humanly possible. I'm not sure
whether to go for Win 10 or Ubuntu once my trusty Win 7 expires.

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