Windows 8 Sentiment is 'Overwhelmingly Negative'

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  1. News Bot iFans.com News

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  2. jpga13 Banned

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    Haven't been thrilled with it on the desktop. Not too bad on a tablet. Will be interested to see how the apps end up working across both platforms.
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  3. bongoman Member

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    I've been using it for awhile now and some parts of it seem well developed. They've made a few changes to things like file copying, opening ISO files in explorer, the task manager shows a LOT more details, and when you plug in a new device it's much more intuitive.

    Other than that I am not a fan of the new tiled interface start screen. It's a bit excessive having this big screen filled with tiles, when before two or three clicks did the job. While you can search for stuff in that screen fairly easily I hate how there isn't an option to return to the Start menu as found in say Windows 7, it shouldn't just be spiffy graphics or utilitarian classic... there should be a middle ground somewhere.
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  4. rrroach Well-Known Member

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    You already have it on a tablet?
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    i like the under the hood changes, tile thingy-not so much.
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  6. Danka58 Member

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    I couldn't agree more...Interface Design has never really been Microsoft's strength.
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  7. Stromos Active Member

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    Tile thing doesn't really bother me anymore. If it really bothers you that much you can always install classic start on Sourceforge and have both the classic and metro interface.
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  8. Arth Active Member

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    Are you aware that most of the people who write this are Windows haters?
    I've met though all my life people who hate Windows for no reason at all, of course, all of these have macbooks or imacs and haven't even tried windows for once.
    Now, I don't say most of the reviewers haven't tested it out yet, but I don't like people who say "It's not such a great thing" or "It will die in a couple days" when it hasn't even been released to the public yet.
    Remember, reviewers don't have the last opinion, but the people itself, people who use it everyday, not only a person who is used to Mac OSX and doesn't understand Windows.
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  9. rye10516 Active Member

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    It scares me. On windows xp, fixing network problems were easy and straight forward. On 7's "network and sharing center" they made it more difficult to get under the hood. I'm afraid with windows 8 little things like that will be even harder to do
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  10. Badd_Blood Well-Known Member

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    I think it's better than Windows 7. Performance is much better, even with the Consumer Preview. But there will always be those die-hard XP users.
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