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[menemis]

Olats Windows 8

[jasperchua]

Win 8 is "okay" at best. It was made to catch up with the touch-based devices of Micro$oft's competitors.

I'm still running on Win 7 too. There's no benefit running games on Win 8 vs Win 7 anyway, so I choose to stay with Win 7.

As for the apps, you can do so much more using other apps.

Windows 9 might be interesting.

[j.e]

masa ok parin sakin ang 7 kaysa 8

[shiba]

I use both windows 7 and windows 8.1 Pro. with same spec I can say windows 8.1 pro is much faster in overall performance compare to windows 7, since win 8.1 has apps you can multi-task greatly

[Kikko23]

Been on Windows 8 since February. I'm using a touch screen laptop/tablet hybrid so I don't experience much of the issues non-touchscreen users experience. It's faster than any Windows version before it, and I really hope they find a good compromise between desktop and tablet UX. Looking forward to Windows 9, actually.

[`ShinChan]

Mas okay ang 7 kesa 8

[Callcenterguy88]

Win 9 is just around the corner. Welcome back start screen!

[philnightlife]

Still windows 7 hehe...haven't really gotten time and interest trying out windows 8 (and I'm an IT guy)

[Kurtsky Keigee]

I didnt use Windows 8 since it is optimized for Touch screens. Waiting for W9

[sonnyt111]

I didnt use Windows 8 since it is optimized for Touch screens. Waiting for W9

There won't be Windows 9. Microsoft if going straight to Windows 10

 

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/windows-10-undoes-the-disaster-of-windows-8-mostly-98835840904.html

 

 

Windows 10 Undoes the Disaster of Windows 8 (Mostly)

David Pogue‎ Oct‎ ‎1‎, 2014Today, Microsoft took the wraps off the next version of Windows. You’ll be able to install a free, unfinished “technical preview” version this week, or get it in final form sometime next year. It’s called Windows 10.

 

(Why is it Windows 10? What happened to 9? Making sense of the Windows naming sequence is like solving one of those Mensa “What’s the pattern?” puzzles. So far, we have this: Windows 1, 2, 3, 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10. OK, whatever.)

 

Windows 8, as the world now knows, was a superimposed mishmash of two operating systems. There was the touchscreen-friendly TileWorld interface, as I called it. (Microsoft, at various times, called it Modern or Metro; it has officially retired both of those terms and replaced them with nothing.)

 

They are quite separate, these two environments. Each has its own Help system, its own Web browser, its own email program, its own control panel, its own conventions and gestures. Worse, each runs its own kind of programs. Regular Windows programs open at the desktop, as always — but TileWorld apps open in TileWorld, with no menus overlapping windows. Like iPad apps.

 

Microsoft believed at the time (2012) that the world was going touchscreen crazy. That, sooner or later, every PC would have a touchscreen.

 

Betting on both

It bet wrong. Most computers still don’t have touchscreens. Windows 8 was a massive flop with critics. “Windows 8 is a failure — an awkward mishmash that pulls the user in two directions at once,” wrote Woody Leonhard in InfoWorld. “A horribly awkward mashup of two fundamentally incompatible approaches that worked poorly on both PCs and tablets,” wrote Galen Gruman.

 

Windows 8 was a massive flop with consumers, too. Today, 51 percent of desktop PCs still run Windows 7; only 13 percent have “upgraded” to Windows 8 or 8.1, according to Net Applications.

 

And at the Windows 10 announcement, you would not have believed the words coming out of Microsoft’s mouth.

 

“In Windows 8, when users launched a Modern [TileWorld] app, it sort of had a different environment,” OS Group VP Joe Belfiore said in his demo. “We don’t want that duality.”

 

Now, when I wrote exactly that in The New York Times, Microsoft PR descended on me like the beasts of hell.

 

The answer has always been screamingly obvious: Split up the two halves of Windows 8. Or, as a wise man once wrote, “Put TileWorld and its universe of new touchscreen apps on tablets. Put Windows 8 on mouse-and-keyboard PCs.” (OK, it was me.)

 

Anyway, here’s the big news: In Windows 10, Microsoft has done just that.

 

Mouse-and-keyboard mode

If you use Windows 10 with a mouse and keyboard, the Start menu is back. Not just the Start button, not just the secret Windows key+X utility menu of Windows 8.1 — the real Start menu.

 

And TileWorld is gone. No more screen of big flat tiles taking over your monitor.

 

Tiles aren’t gone completely; they still pop out of the regular Start menu, a little weirdly.

 

And what about all those TileWorld apps that could run only in TileWorld? Since TileWorld is gone, these apps now open up on the desktop, in regular windows with regular title bars and window controls. You can still see your desktop, and you can see TileWorld apps and regular Windows programs side by side.Tablet mode

If you don’t have a mouse and keyboard, then you still get TileWorld — a Start screen and apps that fill the full screen. In fact, Microsoft demonstrated how, if you’re using a Microsoft Surface with the keyboard attached, you get the Start menu and desktop — but if you detach the keyboard, Windows automatically offers to switch into TileWorld mode, hiding the Start menu and making your apps full screen.

 

Good!

 

New features

There are also some useful new features (new to Windows, anyway). Search results now include listings from the Web as well as from your computer. There’s a new “task view,” modeled on Mac OS X’s Mission Control, which shows you miniatures of all open windows when you click a button on the taskbar.

 

And you’ll be able to “snap” windows together so they all occupy part of your screen.

 

What about Windows Phone? It will resemble Windows 10, although it won’t have the desktop view. Microsoft says that laptops, tablets, and phones will all get their apps from a single, unified app store. (It’s not clear if that means the same apps run on all those platforms; I’d guess not.)

 

Windows 10 looks as though it will be far more usable and less confusing than Windows 8 and 8.1. It’s too bad the whole tile design is still mixed in there for desktop PCs, but at this point I guess it’s too late for Microsoft to abandon the whole misbegotten tile thing altogether.

 

But at least mouse-and-keyboard folks won’t sacrifice productivity in the name of the touchscreen revolution that never came, and tablet fans won’t have to work (much) with tiny window controls.

 

Let us welcome the saner heads that have finally prevailed in Redmond.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Pierru]

Windows 8.1 is great!! from windows 7 to 8.1, i didn't encounter any problems yet..XD

[oscartamaguchiblackface]

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/windows-8-was-a-major-misstep-for-microsoft-99090755939.html

 

Windows 10 Preview: 6 Features You'll Want

 

 

Daniel HowleyTechnology Reporter‎Oct‎ ‎7‎, ‎2014

 

 

Windows 8 was a major misstep for Microsoft. Instead of giving people an improved version of the familiar desktop interface they’d been using for 20 years, Microsoft went with a new touch-friendly tile-based Start screen.

 

The change was so drastic that it ended up scaring off consumers and enterprise users alike.

 

But a new Windows is on the horizon, in the form of Windows 10. And though the new OS will be used on PCs, tablets, and smartphones, it won’t look the same on every platform. On PCs, the interface will harken back to the familiar desktop style of Windows 7, with some added spice from Windows 8.

 

These are the top five reasons why Windows 10 looks like a winner for PC owners. But don’t hold your breath: We won’t see the shipping version of Windows 10 until 2015.

 

1. The Start button is back.

For years, the first thing people saw when they booted their PCs was the humble Windows Start button. But the little guy was nixed from Windows 8 in favor of the Start screen.

 

With Windows 10, however, Microsoft is bringing back the Start button. You can finally see all of your programs nested in its menus, and shutting down is once again an easy click away.

 

What’s more, Windows 10 lets you add some of those nifty Windows 8 app tiles to the Start menu. It’s the best of both worlds.

 

2. The desktop returns.

In Windows 8, the traditional desktop took a backseat to the Start screen. Sure, you could choose to boot to the desktop by fiddling with different settings, but the emphasis was clearly on getting people

 

The Start screen interface worked well with tablets, but Microsoft wanted desktop and laptop owners to interact with the Start screen, too, even if their computers didn’t have touchscreens.

 

Windows 10 puts the desktop back in its rightful place, front and center as soon as you start up your computer. In fact, the touchy-feely Start screen is entirely gone from the PC version. The only remnants of the interface are the aforementioned app tiles that appear in the Start menu.

 

3. Continuum mode.

Microsoft hasn’t completely axed the Start screen interface, though. It will still be available to people who own 2-in-1 laptop-tablet hybrid computers.

 

 

The feature works by recognizing how you’re using your device. So if you have a Surface Pro 3, for example, Windows 10 will run in tablet mode, emphasizing the Start screen.

 

Connect the Surface’s keyboard attachment, however, and Windows 10 will switch over to desktop mode and all the features it includes.

 

4. Windows apps.

Microsoft introduced its own apps with Windows 8. And though they were beautiful, you could use them only on the Windows 8 Start screen. Windows 10 changes that, letting you open and use Windows 8 apps on the traditional desktop.

 

 

Better still, the apps don’t take up the whole screen anymore, because they run in actual windows, meaning that you can move and resize them as much as you want.

 

5. Snap your apps

 

Windows 8’s Snap feature, which lets you move apps to either side of the screen, also returns in Windows 10. This time, though, you can snap both Windows 8 apps and regular programs to either side of your screen. It should make multitasking worlds better.

 

6. Task view.

Windows 10’s new Task view is similar to the Mission Control feature found in Apple’s OS X. From Task view, you can open multiple desktops, each with their own apps. That should help you crank your productivity up to 11 with ease.

 

What’s more, when you move your pointer over a desktop, you can see what apps are running on it, so you don’t have to search each desktop to find where you last left off.

 

The outlook

Windows 8 has been a headache for Microsoft, but Windows 10 is well on its way to righting its predecessor’s wrongs. Still, there’s a long way to go before this operating system is finished. We’ve only begun to scratch the surface of what Windows 10 has to offer. But from what little we’ve seen, Microsoft is on the right track.

 

 

 

[docseiya]

It works great on a touchscreen monitor.

[Bugatti Veyron]

It works great on a touchscreen monitor.

Such as on a phone, tablet, or anything hand-held.

[Google]

im on Win 8.1 now. medyo may problema.

using a legit software, OS is activated, came with the laptop. kaya lang may lumalabas na message na "Your Windows license will expire soon. You need to activate Windows in PC settings."

Have tried the activation procedure via phone.... Still no help.

Thinking of going back to Win 7.