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Unless there is a really good reason to upgrade this year, I'm going to wait until spring of 2013, when Office 2013 is released. That way I'll get a new laptop, new OS, and new Office suite.
Getting ready for Windows 8 this month?
By jvolstad Follow Tue, 16 Oct 2012, 4:49pm 756 views 11 comments
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I heard Win8 was going to be around $30-40 to keep in line with Apple .... ?
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I'm still using XP and will continue to use that and Fedora for quite some time.
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zzyzzx says
I plan on staying with 7. Got a chance to play with 8 yesterday and hated it. It may work better on a touchscreen/tablet though.
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Now that I have been prompted to be this thread, I think I might upgrade from Fedora 16 to Fedora 17.
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zzyzzx says
Yeah, I still have XP on my desktop at home and have not plans on changing.
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joshuatrio says
I have only played with it on a touchscreen, and actually liked it a lot.
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I just tried Win8 at the local Best Buy. On a laptop or desktop, I just don't get it.
I'm staying with my old Win7 laptop.
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leo707 says
I still run XP on both my development machine at home and my HTPC. I run Visual Studio 2012 in a Sun Virtual Box VM running Windows 7 x64, and set it up as a remote app so it runs seamlessly on my XP machine. A little mapping of network drives and I have my solutions, projects, and code on my host machine as well. The only way I can tell that VS2012 isn't running locally is because of the minimize, maximize, close buttons. They have the Win 7 look.
At work, every place is running Windows 7 and will continue to do so for quite some time. Remember how long it took workplaces to switch away from XP? Most places waited until Windows 7 came out. I suspect most corporations are going to skip Windows 8 as well.
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joshuatrio says
Even ignoring Metro, there's a lot of reasons why Windows 8 sucks. Microsoft continues to hide things and take away power from the end user. I kid you not, I was told by Windows 8 that I didn't have rights to create a short-cut on my desktop. I was logged in with an account that was a member of the administrative group, not that you should need any privileges to make a short-cut on your desktop. And don't even get me started on regedit.
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Hey did they add the ability to preset UAC stuff for programs?
Like I have this fwupdate.exe for my Samsung BluRay drive. Every boot it wants to check the drive and needs admin priv for it. So my screen goes dark and I have to click OK to finish. In Win7 I could only see how set UAC to never notify for all programs, there was no way to make an exception for a specific one.
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Dan8267 says
That's bothered me in every WinOS since Win95. They seem to be trying to copy Apple, instead of understanding that PC customers are people who like to take things apart. If we wanted Apple, we'd buy Apple. We buy PC to be able to change things around inside, but MSFT then goes out of its way to complicate that.