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Windows 8 is a Flop, just as I predicted
On 27/07/2014 14:04, Darklight wrote:
There's nothing wrong with windows 8. Here's the thing i bet it is only old people who are complaining about win8. I agree. People haven't mastered the Kurt Lewin's three-step change management model developed in the 1950s. This can very well be adapted to software industry if implemented properly. Unfreeze Change Refreeze From XP Microsoft went to Vista then Win7 and now Win8. Between Vista and Win7 there wasn't much difference. People were simply not prepared to learn its new interface otherwise it was identical to XP. Win7 and Vista is almost identical. People accepted it because of better documentation, training packages and online help. Windows 8 should be the same and Microsoft needs to produce better documentation and provide free training sessions like they did with XP. I remember I attended Microsoft XP training session in Central London and we were all given freebies of XP disks and serial numbers and goody bags containing Microsoft's Windows XP Resource Kit book. There was also a 50% discount voucher to get Office 2003 book. |
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Windows 8 is a Flop, just as I predicted
Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 17:01:31 +0200, Alias wrote: Windows is history. I'm glad I know how to use Linux. Do you know every Linux variety? Of course not. I gave up trying to write software for Linux as nobody wants to pay for it. If you could write something similar to Outlook that uses HTML properly and does multiple signatures, I bet you could sell it to corporate users and some home or small business users. Evolution was a failure but they tried ... The money in Linux is in tech support more than anything else. -- Alias |
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Windows 8 is a Flop, just as I predicted
On 27/07/2014 17:50, Alias wrote:
If you could write something similar to Outlook that uses HTML properly and does multiple signatures, I bet you could sell it to corporate users and some home or small business users. Evolution was a failure but they tried ... And tax and accounting software. Also, hardware manufacturers should create Linux drivers and put them in disks with the hardware and available online on their website. There should also be a database of all hardware and their Linux drivers which people can search for and download. |
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Windows 8 is a Flop, just as I predicted
On 27/07/2014 17:32, Alias wrote:
Safer? LOL! Linux doesn't do malware. Windows does and it does it very well. There is no point in creating malwares for Linux because not many people use it. Malware writers will have a better target rate if they spend time on Windows system knowing that it is where money can be made; Not on Linux users who are not likely to be using Linux for any serious business. |
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Windows 8 is a Flop, just as I predicted
On 7/27/2014 12:03 PM, Good Guy wrote:
On 27/07/2014 17:50, Alias wrote: If you could write something similar to Outlook that uses HTML properly and does multiple signatures, I bet you could sell it to corporate users and some home or small business users. Evolution was a failure but they tried ... And tax and accounting software. Also, hardware manufacturers should create Linux drivers and put them in disks with the hardware and available online on their website. There should also be a database of all hardware and their Linux drivers which people can search for and download. Why? They have in the past and lost money on all of the development costs. So you believe developers should do things to lose money? Manufactures from time to time even try to sell Linux machines with drivers they created. Problem always have been they just don't sell. Even WalMart even tried to sell Linux models for a short time and nobody wanted to buy one. Linux users just want everything for free, even the machines. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Kingston 120GB SSD - Thunderbird v24.4.0 Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 4GB - Windows 8.1 Pro w/Media Center |
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Windows 8 is a Flop, just as I predicted
On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 18:08:18 +0100
Good Guy wrote: On 27/07/2014 17:32, Alias wrote: Safer? LOL! Linux doesn't do malware. Windows does and it does it very well. There is no point in creating malwares for Linux because not many people use it. Malware writers will have a better target rate if they spend time on Windows system knowing that it is where money can be made; Not on Linux users who are not likely to be using Linux for any serious business. It is very difficult to write malware for Linux. Actually it is currently impossible to get malware on Linux without confirmation. Heck they can't even install toolbar for any browser -- Click OK to continue... |
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Windows 8 is a Flop, just as I predicted
BillW50 wrote in :
Subject: Windows 8 is a Flop, just as I predicted From: BillW50 Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-8 On 7/27/2014 6:32 AM, Ed Cryer wrote: At least MS were right about tablets. They're the future, no doubt about it. But desktops are still the norm for older people and especially office work; and those number millions. While I have used tablets since around 2000, I knew virtually nothing about Windows tablets. So I decided that I had to start learning. My first one back in 2012 was a Windows 7 tablet. There wasn't many Windows 8 tablets yet, so I bought two of them. One I installed Windows 8. Why wouuld anyone car about this? |
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Windows 8 is a Flop, just as I predicted
On 7/27/2014 12:00 PM, BillW50 wrote:
On 7/27/2014 10:08 AM, Ron wrote: On 7/27/2014 10:41 AM, BillW50 wrote: On 7/27/2014 9:34 AM, BillW50 wrote: On 7/27/2014 9:06 AM, Roderick Stewart wrote: I don't think I'm too old to learn new stuff, but why should I have to, just to do what I could do before? Computers are supposed to serve our needs, not the other way around. It isn't that hard at all and the more you use it, the more it makes a lot of sense. Doing it otherwise would have been more counterproductive. Lots of things are better under 8 compared to 7. The Task Manager, file transfers, SSD support, Performance Monitor, On Screen Keyboard, Hybrid Sleep, faster booting, etc. are all better. Faster booting before the 8.1 update. I used to be able to push the power button and be typing in the Google Chrome search bar in 45 seconds (same as my Windows 7 machine with a hybrid HDD) now it takes anywhere from 1:30 to 1:45+ depending on the weather. Reboots are 3 minutes plus! Wow, really? Why? I just checked mine and 20 seconds to shutdown and 10 seconds to boot. And this one has all of the updates. Google "Windows 8.1 update slow boot". Some people that updated to Windows 8.1 from 8 are getting a black screen and it never boots. 10 seconds to push the power button, open Chrome, and start typing? I find that hard to believe, especially if you are using a SATA HDD. Just off of the top of my head here are a few reasons I like Windows 7 better than Windows 8.1. Boot and reboot time I don't know why yours is that way. Don't need a 3rd party start button/menu (no biggie really), but still I don't need or use 3rd party Start either. I can use Windows 8 just fine without them. Many people including myself prefer a traditional start menu. No media center (home edition) I have the Media Center. I bought Windows 8 for this machine for $39.95 and Microsoft offered the Media Center for free back in Jan 2013. Can't play DVDs with WMP I can. Yeah, and you paid for it. Windows 7 has it. Can't boot into safe mode when starting the computer (F8) You can't? Been using Windows 8 since March 2012 and I never had the need yet. No, you can't. No Windows update bubble I get notifications when there are new updates. A notification which you may not see is not the same as a constant reminder in the taskbar. Since upgrade to Windows 8.1 it is slow to recognize some plug and play devices (if it even recognizes them at all) Wow! I haven't seen this either. Come on over and I will show you. Just 2 nights ago it took me forever to get Windows 8.1 to recognize my TomTom so I could update it. Before updating to from Windows 8 the second I plugged in my TT it was recognized. |
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Windows 8 is a Flop, just as I predicted
On 7/27/2014 12:19 PM, Zaky Waky wrote:
BillW50 wrote in : Subject: Windows 8 is a Flop, just as I predicted From: BillW50 Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-8 On 7/27/2014 6:32 AM, Ed Cryer wrote: At least MS were right about tablets. They're the future, no doubt about it. But desktops are still the norm for older people and especially office work; and those number millions. While I have used tablets since around 2000, I knew virtually nothing about Windows tablets. So I decided that I had to start learning. My first one back in 2012 was a Windows 7 tablet. There wasn't many Windows 8 tablets yet, so I bought two of them. One I installed Windows 8. Why wouuld anyone car about this? Any who cares about Windows tablets of course. And a Windows desktop and a Windows tablet are the same. Same OS, applications, keyboards, mice, etc. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Kingston 120GB SSD - Thunderbird v24.4.0 Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 4GB - Windows 8.1 Pro w/Media Center |
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Windows 8 is a Flop, just as I predicted
On 7/27/2014 9:04 AM, Darklight wrote:
Alias wrote: http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...rget_Windows_8 Even Vista did better. Of course, this is in line with MS' good/bad, good/bad Windows roll out. Win 98 good Win Me bad XP good Vista bad 7 good 8 bad 9? If it becomes a rental in the cloud, so much for Windows; that's the end. There's nothing wrong with windows 8. Here's the thing i bet it is only old people who are complaining about win8. IE those who where around in the time of win 95. And those old people are on the way out, so windows does not care about the old only the young? As they are the ones who are going to be using it. And they are the ones who have growen up with mobile phones. No one like change! Querstion how old are you? Another question what can win7 do that win8 can not please provide a list. of say ten points or more if you wish. At 70, I probably am not the oldest, but I just posted that I thought Windows 8.1 good system. On the other have being 70 and seeing things come and go, I realize the initial hype about a system is not necessarily the way things work out. Remember the Segway FM radios was suppose to replace AM radios. CD was suppose to replace the 78, AM radio is still going strong and there is still a market for 78RPM phonographs. Think about this. Who made recordings that has the best sound reproduction; Scott Joplin or Janice Joplin. Everyone just responded "Why of course Janice Joplin, as she recorded on CD's" They forgot that Scott Joplin recorded on a player piano which created the sound of his music on a piano. So which is the better sound reproduction a piano or a CD |
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Windows 8 is a Flop, just as I predicted
On 7/27/2014 12:16 PM, Melzzzzz wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 18:08:18 +0100 Good Guy wrote: On 27/07/2014 17:32, Alias wrote: Safer? LOL! Linux doesn't do malware. Windows does and it does it very well. There is no point in creating malwares for Linux because not many people use it. Malware writers will have a better target rate if they spend time on Windows system knowing that it is where money can be made; Not on Linux users who are not likely to be using Linux for any serious business. It is very difficult to write malware for Linux. Actually it is currently impossible to get malware on Linux without confirmation. Heck they can't even install toolbar for any browser Nonsense. It is so easy to hack into Linux. One easy way is to use a buffer overflow and you are right into root. And you just leave your rootkit and the user has no idea (and most users doesn't even scan for malware). In fact, rootkit is new to the Windows world and *nix had them for decades now. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Kingston 120GB SSD - Thunderbird v24.4.0 Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 4GB - Windows 8.1 Pro w/Media Center |
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Windows 8 is a Flop, just as I predicted
On 7/27/2014 9:59 AM, BillW50 wrote:
On 7/27/2014 8:48 AM, Roderick Stewart wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 08:54:42 -0400, Keith Nuttle wrote: I believe Windows 8 was a marketing failure not a failure of the basic operating system. MS concentrated on the tablet interface, and hid the fact that there was the desktop interface. In the desktop interface Windows 8.1 is as good as any thing that MS has released in the past, including Windows 7 and XP. Even once you've found the desktop interface, as supplied it lacks a start button with the functionality to which 500 million Windows users are already accustomed. And guess what - the commonest complaint about Windows 8 seems to be the lack of a start button. you are entitled to your opinion of course, but it doesn't seem to be shared by many. Geez... why do people claim that Windows 8 has no Start button? That isn't true at all! It is still there, but they moved it to the Charms bar. The same place you will find the Control Panel, Shut Down, Search, etc. It isn't any big deal people. Not even to the Charms. Every thing in the Start button is now a right click on the MS icon on the Desktop Task Bar. You can shut down the computer, access the control panel, network properties, printers, and more than you could in the old start button. You have a categorized list of your previously opened files by right clicking on any program pinned to the Desktop Task bar. What did you get in the old Start button that you do not get by right clicking on the Ms Icon or the program on the Task bar? |
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Windows 8 is a Flop, just as I predicted
On 7/27/2014 1:25 PM, Keith Nuttle wrote:
On 7/27/2014 9:04 AM, Darklight wrote: Alias wrote: http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...rget_Windows_8 Even Vista did better. Of course, this is in line with MS' good/bad, good/bad Windows roll out. Win 98 good Win Me bad XP good Vista bad 7 good 8 bad 9? If it becomes a rental in the cloud, so much for Windows; that's the end. There's nothing wrong with windows 8. Here's the thing i bet it is only old people who are complaining about win8. IE those who where around in the time of win 95. And those old people are on the way out, so windows does not care about the old only the young? As they are the ones who are going to be using it. And they are the ones who have growen up with mobile phones. No one like change! Querstion how old are you? Another question what can win7 do that win8 can not please provide a list. of say ten points or more if you wish. At 70, I probably am not the oldest, but I just posted that I thought Windows 8.1 good system. On the other have being 70 and seeing things come and go, I realize the initial hype about a system is not necessarily the way things work out. Remember the Segway FM radios was suppose to replace AM radios. CD was suppose to replace the 78, AM radio is still going strong and there is still a market for 78RPM phonographs. Think about this. Who made recordings that has the best sound reproduction; Scott Joplin or Janice Joplin. Everyone just responded "Why of course Janice Joplin, as she recorded on CD's" They forgot that Scott Joplin recorded on a player piano which created the sound of his music on a piano. So which is the better sound reproduction a piano or a CD Janis Joplin died in 1970...just sayin'. |
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Windows 8 is a Flop, just as I predicted
BillW50 wrote:
On 7/27/2014 12:03 PM, Good Guy wrote: On 27/07/2014 17:50, Alias wrote: If you could write something similar to Outlook that uses HTML properly and does multiple signatures, I bet you could sell it to corporate users and some home or small business users. Evolution was a failure but they tried ... And tax and accounting software. Also, hardware manufacturers should create Linux drivers and put them in disks with the hardware and available online on their website. There should also be a database of all hardware and their Linux drivers which people can search for and download. Why? They have in the past and lost money on all of the development costs. So you believe developers should do things to lose money? Manufactures from time to time even try to sell Linux machines with drivers they created. Problem always have been they just don't sell. Even WalMart even tried to sell Linux models for a short time and nobody wanted to buy one. Linux users just want everything for free, even the machines. Bull****, but, then again, when don't you post bull****. -- Alias |
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Windows 8 is a Flop, just as I predicted
Good Guy wrote:
On 27/07/2014 17:32, Alias wrote: Safer? LOL! Linux doesn't do malware. Windows does and it does it very well. There is no point in creating malwares for Linux because not many people use it. Malware writers will have a better target rate if they spend time on Windows system knowing that it is where money can be made; Not on Linux users who are not likely to be using Linux for any serious business. That's the FUD MS wants you to believe but it isn't true. Most servers are Linux. Most banks use Linux. A whole lot of countries use Linux. Why? Because Linux is more stable and doesn't do malware. -- Alias |
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