I HATE Windows 8. This is the worst OS ever invented.

Today I found this apt review of Windows 8, even if it was written last year it sums up Windows 8's GUI for me.

http://www.nngroup.com/articles/windows-8-disappointing-usability/

Yesterday I had our company's CEO return his Windows 8 Tablet to the IT department. After using it for the past six to seven months, he no longer sees value in carrying it around. He did express there is a different Tablet device he would prefer.

Then later that evening, when speaking to two people I assisted with an ultrabook purchase, they expressed to me how deeply they dislike Windows 8. Windows 7 was not an alternative for them when they made their purchase.

I hope Microsoft are listening to people.  I hope Intel's new CPU chipsets have  improved performance with lower power consumption, and the sooner the better.  I think both are needed to save Windows.  I would also like lower personal taxes, so what are my chances?

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/151555-windows-blue-features-leaked-its-windows-8-with-more-snapping-less-desktop  “So far, the standout features of Windows Blue are more Start screen...”.

Oh, the Start screen is still there.  Yep, I don't think it will go away, sadly.  Fortunately there is StarDock's Start8.

Enjoy Windows XP and Windows 7 while they are supported !

Spyderwebmaster I like the "retro from metro" slogan. 

I wanted to offer the rhyming slogan "I HATE WINDOWS EIGHT"

To be honest, I don't hate Windows 8, I just don't like the directions that Microsoft is going with there operating systems.

I can live with the "Start screen", even if I prefer a normal menu.  But I like the "right click in the left had corner", can we add our programs to this menu list?

But what really scares me is these "Modern" apps (previously "Metro Apps"). They don't run in Windows.  I like the OS called "Windows" because it uses Windows for having multiple (not one, or two) applications but "multiple", and I can change their window's size and shape. Microsoft, "Please do not convert Windows to Metro/Modern style OS, have both if you must but don't through away "Windows".   Sadly I believe this decision has already been made, and I have lost. Maybe if enough people complain then Microsoft will rethink this direction.  Maybe I am one of the few how don't like the lost of Window'ed applications.

So my request is, please allow Metro/Modern Apps to also be undocked into resizable Windows.

Metro Apps like Mail and Calendar should realise that Exchange Servers existed a long time before they did, and lots of people use Exchange email so please allow us to attach to Microsoft's Exchange servers.

Why is it that Windows 8 cannot maintain a WiFi and/or VPN connection very long before it drops out?  (Maybe it is the hardware in the new Windows 8 Tablet that I have been using?)

I noticed that when the Tablet comes out of sleep, it will reconnect the WiFi, it would be great if the VPN would also reconnect (if it had been configured to do so).

Why does Microsoft have to fill our lives with so much frustration...

Move your mouse to the lower right hand corner and icons (charms) will emerge.

Select the lower one which looks like a gear.

A settings menu will appear with a power button near the bottom.

This will allow you to shut down.

Could they make it any more non-intuitive and difficult to find? Ridiculous.

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

http://youtu.be/nn2FB1P_Mn8?t=12s

That video was blocked to me because I am in the wrong country, I presume.

I have not yet figured out how to turn it off. The is no obvious "shut down" button. I unplugged it but I need to wait for my battery to die.

This is horrible.

On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 02:54:25 +0000, JohnOstendorf wrote:

How in the ** does anybody operate in this environment.  I now have 20 windows open and can't figure out how to close a damn thing.  I know the weather in Paris and couldn't give a **. This SUCKS!!! This is an improvement?  Can I get Windows XP or 7 back?  This SUCKS!!!  I can't get around.  I can't close a window.  I can't update any of these stupid tiles.  This SUCKS!!! Any advice from anybody else out there?   Frustrated beyond belief, John

You don't know how to use Windows 8, so you hate it? That's like
saying you don't know to fly an airplane, so you hate airplanes.

Like anything else new, it takes some time to learn to use Windows 8
and get accustomed to what's different and what's improved. Instead of
taking steps backward in time and reverting to an obsolescent version
of Windows, you should get yourself a good book and learn how to use
what you have.

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP