I have Windows 7 on my desktop PC and upgraded to Windows 8 on my laptop so I could work with it, since I'll need to support users at work at some point. I liked XP, it was the first real merge of the Windows 9x interface with the WinNT kernel, so it provided the better parts of either (along with some of the worst, but this is Windows after all). Vista was a mistake mostly because they didn't bother to remove the bloat from it, so you could get a decent user experience if you had enough power to run it smoothly. But even if you did, you wondered why you'd want to run it if WinXP wasn't as much of a resource hog.
Windows 7 is okay, and there are a couple of touches I like in Windows 8 (the task manager, the copy/move dialog). But the removal of the Start Menu in Windows 8 is just stupid. And no, don't tell me that I need to learn how to use Windows 8. I'm not the problem, I'll learn it just fine. But I've got ~140 users who have trouble figuring out how to turn on a PC, and will be paralyzed by the loss of something as simple and functional as the Start Menu. It's why I selected "none" in the poll. I get cranky thinking about a change like this, that will cause me endless headaches just because Microsoft decided to remove an option that is still in the OS. Shitheads.
Windows 7 is okay, and there are a couple of touches I like in Windows 8 (the task manager, the copy/move dialog). But the removal of the Start Menu in Windows 8 is just stupid. And no, don't tell me that I need to learn how to use Windows 8. I'm not the problem, I'll learn it just fine. But I've got ~140 users who have trouble figuring out how to turn on a PC, and will be paralyzed by the loss of something as simple and functional as the Start Menu. It's why I selected "none" in the poll. I get cranky thinking about a change like this, that will cause me endless headaches just because Microsoft decided to remove an option that is still in the OS. Shitheads.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
