Out of Pod Experience

Thank you for posting but I will choose to ignore you at this present time as I feel your post was unintelligent and had nothing to add to this topic.

I speak the truth, My win7 is fast, supremely fast. In fact everything is pretty much instanataneous. My disk read/write are insane my network throughput speeds is crazy.

I cannot forsee my system being the supposed so called 11% faster. Seriously some games load instantly some games like crysis might take 20 seconds to boot and load into the level I saved.

Win 8 is not 11% faster than 7 I simply cannot see it at all.

If your running win8 - I feel sorry for you.

Considering most people didn't go out and buy a new computer when Win 8 came out, I doubt a significant percentage are even using it, ask after x-mas.

Not empty quoting.

Ignoring the purely subjective part about it being horrible, you only ever see that UI for a few seconds each session. I can hardly see how that is an issue, even if you do hate it. Just click on the desktop tile and forget about it.

Because there's no reason why I should have to see it at all since Vista already obsoleted it. It's an issue because MS is moving backwards, both in terms of the UI and its application in and of itself, but also in their refusal to address this very well-known problem (that will hit their main customer base the most).

It's as if in the '90s, they had shipped Win95 with only T9 support for password entry because that's what everyone used on their cell phones, instead of allowing the use of keyboards. It wouldn't have been an issue, because you don't enter your password that often, right?

Windows 8 is, in my opinion, in all ways better than 7. It is faster and its UI, that everyone hates, actually allows me to set up my "used to be" start menu in exactly the way I want it by using all small tiles and none of the "fancy crap". It is faster, easier and better for everyday use.

It is also brighter with games! Understands alt tab faster and better than 7 and runs everything faster than 7 ever did.

It is bascially damn good at what it does!

Haters are going to hate.

Mac lovers are going to hate

Linux lovers are going to hate.

I use win 7 (work), Linux (private laptop), and Mac (the dreaded wife's laptop) on and off

Fact is imho on my desktop computer, and after 5 months use , it is as good or better than the 2 OS' above and better than 7.

Well I don't know about you but for me, there's no option in between W7 Pro at 300€ and W8 at 120€.
Sure some stuff changes, it's a matter of time to adapt to this new UI but I believe it's a very good step forward in the good direction.

I don't know about you but as a guy who learned his first steps on PC with IBM systems and different crap because it' was funny or looked smart to feel/use different, I can't think about it now but as a waste of energy when everything is far more simple, easy to use and offers better software updates/progression with standard platforms.

Lets take a close look at, you're at home and in between the morning and the evening this is about what you have at home:

-smart phone ->windows phone system, android, Iphone, whatever other crap because there are hundreds
-PC -> Mac, Linux, Windows and some other crap
-TV -> another crap requiring dozens of buttons, offering more chans than you need, thousands of crap 24h/d
Console -> PS "x" version, X-Box or whatever crap

This is for the base crap you, me and most of people having the chance and the privileged to have enough money to buy, use every day.
So my only question is, why choose to make of your day worst that it could be?
Why not choose and actually help or ask for enough improvements so you can use your phone, pc, console, tv, gps, car whatever crap with same interactivity and easiness instead of different ones making you loose too much time and energy to achieve the same tasks?

I'm all for anti trust, but I'm also all against waste of time/resources/energy for peanuts or a piece of makeup. Our lifes are not ready to get back to stone age, looking forward means more and more devices in your current day life in the next decades so are we ready to actually find something making your day to day life easier or do you really think we need each device to use different kinds of UI?

Nothing you said is accurate except that you can pause file copying/moving. Everything else has yet to be proven.

I liek Win 8 and that's all that matters...

still can't find the calculator that used to be in the start menu but I'm sure I'll find it eventually

Just type calculator while on the start menu it should bring it right up. This works for anything thats hard to find