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

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I am so hoping that Microsoft are listening to people's frustrations, and learn how to make Windows 10 much kinder to us.  I have yet to meet another person who is prepared to use Windows 8.  I have been using Windows 8 so that I can learn it, and while I do not like it (because I don't have a Tablet device), it does work.  But it is so very different, a large learning curve.

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Hi.  My name's in the signature and above the response.  Glad to have met you.

Now you have met, 'another person who is prepared to use Windows 8'.

It is different.  It is a large learning curve.  As was Windows 7 from Windows XP (yeah, I leave out Vista), Windows XP from Windows 98SE (yeah, I leave out Windows ME) and heck, Windows 95 from Windows for Workgroups.  Office 2003 to Office 2007 and even Office 2010 to Office 2013 (Outlook has been a bit of a pain.)  Photoshop has changed a lot over the last decade.  Even Adobe Reader isn't the same as it was in 2002.  Open Office now has the off-shoot of LibreOffice - so even the free alternatives are different out there in the past decade.  Cars don't look the same, hybrids and alternative fuels are more common.  Hairstyles are even different and the stuff that is on TV is mostly reality stuff because people don't experience that as much as they used to, I guess?  *grin*

Dell XPS 12 has been decent (can even get a dock with it for $100 more.)  Dell Latitude 10 - not too bad.  The Asus VivoTab with RT isn't even all that bad - but yeah - I still like full Windows versions over the tablet ones.

I hate it too its a huge RAM hog.  Many programs are unstable or wont work example IE doesn't work for me if I launch from Desktop but it does when I use the retarded new start menu.

Chris,

You said, "huge RAM hog", why would you say that?  I have been running Windows 8 32 bit on a very old Toshiba Tablet (pen type), which was only designed for Windows XP, there is not much RAM in this PC, and Windows 8 runs well, better that Windows XP.

You said, "IE doesn't work for me", is that personal preference, or do you have actual issues that are not just because you do not know how to do certain functions. I do not use or like the Metro IE, for two reasons, 1) it does not run Flash, 2) I do not fully understand how to use it so it is difficult for me to use, there are certain features I don't know how to do. I love working with multiple screens, and multiple Windows, but it has no multiple Window feature.  These are all my personal preference and learning issues.

If you have discovered real problems, we would like to learn what they are to gain a better appreciation of those issues.

I am so hoping that Microsoft are listening to people's frustrations, and learn how to make Windows 10 much kinder to us.  I have yet to meet another person who is prepared to use Windows 8.  I have been using Windows 8 so that I can learn it, and while I do not like it (because I don't have a Tablet device), it does work.  But it is so very different, a large learning curve.

I have yet to find a Tablet Device that has the features that I want. I do not just want a tablet device.  All those people with iPad's and Androids might be happy, then Windows 8 RT is an alternative for them, but I am looking for a desktop that can travel with me as a Tablet, but be a desktop when I am in the Office or at Home. That is to be able to dock to a large monitor, external full sized Keyboard/Mouse, LAN, External high capacity USB3 HD.  The tablet needs to be able to travel with a lightweight keyboard, but be a tablet when I want it to be. For me, I would personally like a larger sized screen so I can actually read papers, documents, reports, web pages without scrolling sideways, be able to use RDP to remote into a corporate environment and actually see what I am doing, which is why I don't want a small iPad, or Android.  But lets see what the market decides, so far where I am, there has been very few Windows 8 Tablet devices I can look at, and so far only one model comes close to what I would like. Some of the other devices look really great as an iPad/Android replacement, I was really impressed, though most run a Atom processor, and at this time, the Android processor does not have the performance that I would appreciate, they are a bit slow.  Sadly I have yet to see a 3G or 4G Windows 8 device. Without 3G or 4G you just are not truly mobile, but always seeking a free WiFi service, or have to carry around yet another device to turn on/off when you want to use your Tablet.

Time will give the market place to opportunity to tell if we are just whiners or if Windows 8 and the devices being offered are not what people want.  I really don't want to loose "Windows" as I know it.

I hate it too its a huge RAM hog.  Many programs are unstable or wont work example IE doesn't work for me if I launch from Desktop but it does when I use the retarded new start menu.

Windows 8 _____?

I hate it too its a huge RAM hog.  Many programs are unstable or wont work example IE doesn't work for me if I launch from Desktop but it does when I use the retarded new start menu.

Could not agree more.  I'm giving Microsoft another month (Feb 2013).  If they can't give normal PC users a way to REVERT to shell free power use, than I'll bite the bullet and switch our 3 biz computers to MAC.  Unbelievable that Microsoft is forcing this OS upon us.. Why, why why??

You're being forced to use Windows 8 by Microsoft?

There's an old argument that still doesn't hold water.  Just substitute Windows 8 with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, etc.   Same argument has been made in the newsgroups/frums for a while about just about every one of those OSes if not more.

Save yourself time - if you are going to make a statement like that and you have the gumption to do it - do it now - don't waste anyone elses time with anymore of the crud here and make whatever switch you think will make your life better.