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1 Amory Blaine  Thu, Aug 16, 2012 9:51:22am

I must say I've been ignoring this hoping it would go away. Anyone have a link as to the benefits over Windows 7? I'm certainly not looking forward to sitting in front of a touch monitor.

2 Curt  Thu, Aug 16, 2012 12:33:52pm

re: #1 Amory Blaine

I must say I've been ignoring this hoping it would go away. Anyone have a link as to the benefits over Windows 7? I'm certainly not looking forward to sitting in front of a touch monitor.

Here's one impression of note regarding Win 8

Honestly, I think RG waited to post this until he downloaded his copies.....took me until this afternoon to get there...coming to my HDD now!

3 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Thu, Aug 16, 2012 1:41:59pm

I'm going to be the first in line never to buy it, just like I was with Vista.

4 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Thu, Aug 16, 2012 2:04:54pm

re: #1 Amory Blaine

I must say I've been ignoring this hoping it would go away. Anyone have a link as to the benefits over Windows 7? I'm certainly not looking forward to sitting in front of a touch monitor.

Well, first consider the many benefits of a touch monitor:
* Fingerprints on your screen, all the time.
* ... ?

MS are apparently laboring under the delusion that desktops and laptops are going to vanish completely in the next 12 months and be 100% replaced by tablets. The only people who will buy Windows 8 are Microsoft fanboys who would buy it even if the UI consisted of a prancing purple unicorn you had to chase around the screen with the mouse and click a rhythm in a time signature of 13/8 (subdivided 5/8 and 4/4) to run any program, and people who get stuck with it because they buy a new computer with it preinstalled.

I'd venture that most Win-dependent businesses will be rolling it out approximate half-past never, for a million reasons including the near-impossible task of retraining the entire workforce. Application compatibility aside, it would be easier to retrain your office staff to transition from WinXP / Win7 to OS X than it would be from Win-anything to Win8.

5 Targetpractice  Thu, Aug 16, 2012 2:34:20pm

If I wanna get Win 8, I'll just wait and get one of the Surface tablets when they come out. No way I'd waste the time of downloading it for a desktop PC.

6 engineer cat  Thu, Aug 16, 2012 4:16:16pm

windows 8 is an unprovoked attack by a shiny but cryptic gui navigation metaphor

7 Curt  Thu, Aug 16, 2012 4:50:03pm

Now coming in live via the 2nd HDD with 8 RTM on it....seems all nice and fuzzy on the install...soft pastel slowly changing colors befitting a "rest home." Anyhow, went on with out any fuss.

It assumes, as addressed above, you'll love to use your fingers while at your PC. I think corporate America isn't going to pay along, not for the cost, nor the ergonomics. Having used a dell touch screen with this already, it is a strange thing indeed to lean forward. I found (find) I just don't. A touch too far....(That's my original contribution to the Windows 8 discussion, and a take off on the bridge that was too far for Monty....and we know how that worked out).

I'll play for a while, but 7 drives my stuff....


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