On Sat, 1 Mar 2014 10:02:44 -0500, "Neil Gould"
wrote:

Stef wrote:
DevilsPGD wrote:

In the last episode of , Stef
said:

Came across this little blurb. chuckle, chuckle


http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/28/54...ing-experiment

What a joke as a marketing ploy. When half your customers don't
like the product, giving it away won't change that consensus. MS has
already reduced licensing frees with little or no tangible results.

MS is in denial. It needs to get its head out of the sand, and give
their desktop customers what they want: A true desktop, mouse and
keyboard version.

It would also be nice if it ran on users' current hardware and
a totally new system purchase wasn't necessary. But perhaps, I'm
dreaming, and asking too much. This IS Windows after all.

That's pretty much what Windows 8.1 is; the polish it has over
Windows 8 is primarily to enable desktop users. It runs surprisingly
well on low-resource systems, new hardware is far from needed if
your hardware could handle any moderately recent version of Windows.

Even so, 8 or 8.1 are really designed to run on a tablet. No
keyboard. No mouse. It takes third-party utilities to turn either
into a traditional desktop which is what the majority of Windows
users want.

My Windows 8.1 notebook does not have a touch screen, and I have no problem
using its interface unmodified by any third-party utilities. The computer is
stable, faster than the Vista or Windows 7 equivalents, and provides access
to more apps via Metro.

I suspect that there are some who just don't want to change, which makes me
wonder why they did in the first place? I'm posting this from one of my
Win2k machines, which is the OS I prefer over XP, Vista or Win7. Nobody is
forcing folks to "upgrade", but I think it behooves those who do to learn
the benefits of the new OS as well as the hardware that it supports, because
time doesn't move in reverse in this neck of the universe. 8-D

I tried upgrading win 8.0 twice. The first time image copy was used
to go back to 8.0, the second time the 8.0 install disc (and image
copy) was needed. I require a physical backup to blu-ray discs, it's
no longer possible with 8.1, perhaps the cloud is deemed sufficient
for a safe backup.