>>A while back Craig sang the praises of Windows 8 here, citing, among other things, much faster restart times.
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>>I got a new desktop last week.. Dell 9020 and wow.. does this thing move!
>>Win 8 took some getting used to but now I can see why they did the things they did.
>>It's a shame that they booted the first release so badly, because it's a winner.
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>I've got Windows 8 on 2 desktop computers now, 1 vista, and the other half a dozen are running W7.
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>The main itch with Windows 8 really is the user interface. I've had to purchase a 3rd party product to get the startmenu back. Also the problem that when opening certain files, it will open in a W8 App from which you often cannot even print, copy or past something.
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>Then the irriating corners that popup a totally useless (for me) menus.
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>I still think it was a major mistake from MS to leave the poor desktop user in the cold. Most users will not have a touch screen, they will use the mouse. They do not want to use those desktop apps, they just want to continue to use it as they could with Windows 7.
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>While starting up definately is faster, since my working computers are now equipped with SSD, that is not a big deal in Windows 7 either.
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>The above probably is the reason for the huge popularity of Windows 7 in the corporate world. End the end they will bend MS arms to fix the problems.
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In fairness, the corporate world is always slow to adopt new OSes. Many are still running XP.