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It's actually rather good.. All the best bits of 7 and 8 combined.

There were some good bits in 8? (Googling 'Window 8 is rubbish gives 'About 2,390,000 results'!)

Only 2,390,000? Did you have the swear filter on?

8 is just misunderstood... Its better at memory management and is smoother. Its just jarring moving to the metro interface.

Having read the bbc report on windows10, it looks like they've made it do most of what iOS and to a lesser extent Android have been doing for years.

I may take advantage of the free upgrade, if my PC can cope with it but I don't think my next PC is going to be windows based tbh.

The good news is a free upgrade from windows 8, the bad news is how long it's going to be before it's available.

Windows 8 is misunderstood . I understood it was an improvement on windows 7.

Looking forward to my free upgrade.http://news.microsoft.com/windows10story/

I love my pc I'm always upgrading and adding to it and it's best platform for gaming and all the other stuff I do(torrents are still the best way for me to watch my favourite shows).

Windows 8 is pants I set my rig to boot up in desktop mode with no password(hate the tiles grrrrrrr) If you really want the start button back on 8 try http://www.classicshell.net/

The problem is that the metro bits will keep trying to re-introduce themselves. like you move the cursor from the left quickly and the side bar pops up!

adamelphick wrote: wrote:

8 is just misunderstood... Its better at memory management and is smoother. Its just jarring moving to the metro interface.

Imagine a new MG with uprated engine and no more HGF... great sign me up But wait, the steering wheel has been replaced with a lever to turn left and a dial to turn right, and every time you operate the wipers the bonnet pops open blocking your view of the road . That's Windows 8.

The biggest problems still remaining in Windows 8 were flagged as soon as the first developer previews came out. I tried it back then and straight away realised it was going to be a crock. Microsoft chose to ignore that feedback, or had gone too far down the wrong road to turn back.

FrenchTF wrote: wrote:

There were some good bits in 8? (Googling 'Window 8 is rubbish gives 'About 2,390,000 results'!)

Elvis is alive get 9.3 million hits. What's your point?

I'm one of the 2,390,000.
Never did like Elvis.
What's your point?
Me, I use my PC for work, and I prefer it to do what I want it to do rather than what Microsoft thinks I want it to do.
And isn't a free upgrade something of an admission?