I ran W8.1 on my desktop at the school district due to the need for it to administer the MS virtual server product.
I hated it. That tile crap was annoying eye candy, while I could see it might have value on a touch enabled device. It was worthless for a normal workstation. Dan back on Windows 7 and Kali Linux, thank goodness Sent from my iPad > On May 16, 2014, at 11:50 AM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Not if you talk to people actually using it. 8.1 is better but still crap. > I'm given to understand Win9 is on fast track for 2015 release. > > I understand what they were trying to do, marry the tablet and PC world, but > the implementation is an epic fail. Win8 needs the ability to turn off tiles > which are stupid on a real computer and bring back the start button for real, > not the 8.1 abomination. > > -Curt > > Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 11:31:27 -0400 > From: "arche...@embarqmail.com" <arche...@embarqmail.com> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] fingering FlightSim laptop > Message-ID: <53762f4f.8060...@embarqmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > The hybrids make sense, and I suppose one would find the touch screen > useful after getting used to it. Windows 8 and the touchscreen computers > received a lot of criticism when they first came out, but that seems to > have died down. > Gerry > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has > no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
