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Upgraded from Windows 7 to 8 yesterday. Now I'm trying out Windows 8.1, seems pretty cool, however some of the stock apps don't work, Photos and Skydrive so far that I've found. Either way, I'm liking it over Windows 7 so far.
the ability to use a custom background in the metro environment is much appreciated. It's not so much of a jarring experience between that and the desktop now (in fact, the transition has gone the other way.. now its actually excellent). Looking forward to installing the update on my Surface.
Bleh. I have to say it: Windows 8 looks just abysmal. Sorry, it's just true.
Steve Jobs' famous quote has never been so relevant: "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste..."
And no, I'm no Windows hater. I think 7 is a great OS and has a lot of great design elements. 8 has to be from the same tasteless hacks that gave us ME and Vista.
Steve Jobs' famous quote has never been so relevant: "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste..."
And no, I'm no Windows hater. I think 7 is a great OS and has a lot of great design elements. 8 has to be from the same tasteless hacks that gave us ME and Vista.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/system-requirements
If you want to run Windows 8 on your PC, here's what it takes:
Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2 (more info)
RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)
Hard disk space: 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver
Well your opinion is wrong there. Maybe if you were talking about iOS
and Steve Jobs was an overrated hack
Well let's see under Steve's leadership we got OS X, the iPad, iPhone, the iMac, etc. Yea other's were involved but to say he was overrated makes you sound silly.
And I don't even like iOS/iPad/iPhone, but I'm not going to deny that they revolutionized the industry.
Hey, I still have iOS devices, and a Mac. I'm an equal opportunity techie, lol.
Speaking of Windows, I recently bought a new PC, so I should update this thread. Even though now I'm back to Windows 8.0, and it being a new PC and missing a lot of previously owned programs, it's not a snazzy. But still, I like this new computer. So much faster than my 5 year old relic that just died.
Windows 8.1 is nice though, minus the bugs that still need to be worked out. Can't wait for the official release. I'm not putting that pre-release version on this PC. I had so many problems with it on my old PC, and I can't entirely rule out that it may have caused my old PC to die.
Oooooo can you share that second wallpaper? It's awesome!
Yeah Windows 8.1 is a big improvement over, and this is from someone who thinks 8 is very good anyway.
Microsoft's biggest problem right now, are their first party apps under the Xbox umbrella. They're crap. Long live Zune!!!
Well let's see under Steve's leadership we got OS X, the iPad, iPhone, the iMac, etc. Yea other's were involved but to say he was overrated makes you sound silly.
Not if I think those products you mentioned are awful, lol (and I do)
I know this thread is a bit dead, but figured i'd submit my desktop anyways. I've had Windows 8 for awhile via bootcamp, but never really found the time to mess with it much. I recently built a Windows PC for gaming only and also finally got around to messing with Windows 8.1. I quickly discovered that software installed outside the "Store" resulted in tiles that looked hideous. A quick bit of googling led me to the "OblyTile" program and I created some tiles for the games I have installed.
July '14 update.
Nothing much has changed yet. Going to be upgrading my system soon, so maybe then?
Wallpaper: http://zeissler.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/20090406-1000807.jpg
Nothing much has changed yet. Going to be upgrading my system soon, so maybe then?
Wallpaper: http://zeissler.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/20090406-1000807.jpg
I hated Win 8, but Win 8.1 isn't bad at all. Way better than Windows 8 if you ask me.
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How did you get your system info to get on your desktop?
Anyway, here's mine. Just downloaded Win 8.1 Pro on my Bootcamp partition yesterday, upgraded from Win 7 Pro. Nothing special.
