Windows 8.1 is like a virus AGGHGHGHHFollow

I'd be particularly careful about this -- The hardware some people have is exactly what they can afford, and keep in mind that not everyone (I'm not saying this about Catwho, but just in general) has the technical expertise of someone with a doctorate in Computer Science or having worked in tech since the IBM PS/2 desktop. I often hear, "f'ing noob", thrown around by people who are technically savvy when the people they're dealing with really are computer illiterate or unable to afford better and don't know that they need better.

It's the equivalent of chewing a first timer in a dungeon in an MMO who's never played cooperatively in an MMO before, and we can all mostly relate to how that feels on the receiving end.

1. Windows 8.1 is a steaming pile of ********* due to interface alone.
2. My PC can beat up your PC.
3. My PC does not have a "HD full of malware from **** sites"

No. W8 has a UI on par with the stupidest ones you've ever seen in WoW, the ones that look sort of pretty but utterly fail at what they're supposed to do. It's absolutely miserable and should never have been released this way.
Maybe if everyone only used touchscreens it would have worked but how many people do you know who have a touchscreen on their desktop?

If they weren't a bunch of arrogant pricks they would have realized that the touch screen just wasn't happening for home PC use. Instead they built an OS around a piece of tech that nobody really uses, and this is the result.

Why? What's the point in having a touch screen 2+ feet away from you when you have a mouse right in front of you on your desk? The only screen I'd want to touch would be a Cintiq and that's jusy with the stylus (and that's not worth anywhere near the $2000 pricetag to me).

As one of my friends once told me, "You won't ever understand until you start using it".

If I could vote you up, I totally would no matter what you said :P

Dude, you're trolling a software analyst here. Just cuz Windows 8 could run all the crap I needed for my master's in Internet programming doesn't mean it can run the corporate software my company is using - since half of them are built for IE8 and are utterly broken in any other browser. We'll get around to fixing it this year since our office will be upgrading to Win8 in 2015, but you overestimate the pace of the business world.

You're right about that, I don't know what's going on in business world, my comments where based on what a normal domestic user/student would need.



Could you specify which daily tasks for the normal user got those 4 extra clicks? I didn't noticed that, all my tasks are at the same "distance" they always were since the first appearance of the start button: "win button+first 2/3 letters of the thing I need+Enter". You can also directly boot to your desktop so if you have shortcuts in your desktop (I don't, I like to keep my desktop clean :) ) they're still 1 click away. Restart, shut down, etc still the same too: "right click on win logo+click option done!". Let me see other simple daily tasks...hmm connect to wi-fi/bluetooth actually made much more easier/faster, connect to projector, etc

I don't know if you have children but kids (I mean people now entering in university) nowadays do like a lot these extremely graphic interfaces and they master them, and they're the future, we, the ones that lived through ms dos, must deal with it.

PS: I also ran ME, nothing can be worse than ME, it doesn't matter how much MS fails again, nothing will ever be so bad :D

You weren't but pretty much everyone else was.


Your problem is a very valid problem and I understand that since problems only began when you changed OS it may look like it's Windows fault, but my opinion is that either manufacturers adapt (make drivers) to the OS people are using or make their own OS, in this case it's hardly MS fault not directly supporting through MS Update your specific motherboard/whatever. In my case they supported 99% of the things, but even if they didn't I knew Toshiba/NVidia/Intel/etc wouldn't fail on me (as they didn't for that 1%).

About the key problem, my experience:

I had my license for win8 from DreamSpark for free, made a clean install, then updated to win8.1 directly from the Shop App with no problems at all and no further activations. When it finished just had to restart and it was done, so you may guess it's hard for me to believe that Win8.1 is the root of all problems

Anyway I think that everything has been said and it was made clear that Win8.1 it's not like a virus, it is an OS, and a very nice one. So nice that even the most "computer retarded" people can use it even if they barely know how to use a mouse. I guess that's what this "stupid interface", as you call it, is about: technological integration for everyone, from the electrical and computer engineering student that programs some silly embedded applications every now and then (me) to the regular housewife that just wants to upload some food photos to facebook.

Oh god. I just bought a new laptop that came with Windows 8. It is going to update to 8.1 as soon as it restarts. Oh god. Oh god.

Yeah, then do a Jimi Hendrix. Put the laptop on the ground, kneel in front of it, pour gasoline over it, drop a lit match on it, and pray over it.