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Originally Posted by w123fanman
I personally have Windows 8.1 Pro, was an early adopter of Windows 8 and I have had no regrets. Never had a problem with it, much more stable than XP, Vista, or 7. I actually had Vista Business on the computer I have 8.1 Pro on and overall it was more stable than any of the computers I had XP Pro on, except for a software compatibility error with Kaspersky anti-virus that caused it to crash all of the time, but was fixed by a Kaspersky update 3 months later. I must be the odd one out, or maybe the higher end versions of the systems are not as bad as the lower end ones.
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Stability isn't the issue (similar on Win 7 and Win 8.x). MS's procrustean push to ram a tablet interface down business users' gullets per force is the issue.
Having the "Start Menu" take up all of the real estate on a 24" screen is asinine. Having Metro(sexual) craplets take over the screen by default with no intuitive way to switch or quit is asinine. Granted, 8.1 is better than 8, and there are some 3rd party fixes for the worst misfeatures, but Win 8 is still a disaster.
I really don't give a damn about having "Live Tiles" in a start screen that I only look at briefly -- they'd be far more useful as desktop widgets unless I'm using a tablet.
04-08-2014, 07:16 PM
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