Title: Windows 8: The Animated Evaluation (Excellent presentation!) Source:
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This is very witty and entertaining, and informative, and reminds me much of a Lewis Black show.
My own attitude, based on bitter and repeated experience, is not to jump to a newer OS until it had been on the market for a year or so and other (more computer savvy) people had stumbled over all (or most) of the bugs and MS had cooked up a remedy. I was more than content with my Commodore-64 until the hardware started sputtering, then I switched to a PC and found the internet. The fact is that I could have continued happily with my old XP system -- but the hardware was dying and it seemed sensible to upgrade to a newer (bigger and faster) machine with W7 (same decision I had made years earlier when my Windows95 setup went Alzheimer). For the moment, W7 works nicely, I am learning its peculiarities and advantages and I'll stick with it till the hardware dies of old age ... by which time Windows may be into the double digits.
For the moment, W7 works nicely, I am learning its peculiarities and advantages and I'll stick with it till the hardware dies of old age ... by which time Windows may be into the double digits.
Same here. Unless there comes a critical need for a newer OS due to seriously cool features and functions which matter to people, rather than what MS is trying to force down people's throats, Win7 is the one to stick with.
I also advise this, also based on my experience: You've spent perhaps $1000 or more on the hardware, and on the high-end software, so spend another couple of hundred on the books and manuals that enable you to get maximum benefit out of your set-up. I mean buy several of the manuals that explain your current system and tell you how to do various tasks and tricks with it. For W-7 I got the Microsoft publications - W7 Inside & Out, Step by Step, Plain & Simple, the Dummies book plus Just the Steps, the Visual books, the O'Reilly The Definitive Guide, and Wiley's W7 Secrets. I suppose I should eventually get The Missing Manual. I buy them on Amazon, often used (must have been sold by someone who jumped to W-8 or to Apple), cheap.
But I did not get W-7 Annoyances and any of the others that talk about fiddling with the Registry. My advice: Unless you are really super-advanced with computers, do not even think of touching the registry, not even (or especially not) with those programs that claim they make registry editing easy. My local Rent-a-Geek is driving a Mercedes because of people who thought they could make one small tweak to the registry.