Windows 8 at its core is sound without any of the driver issues that vista had. Its stable and nothing major is popping out in the bug department. Now that aside there's also nothing major popping out in the advancement department. No major wow must have it feature or innovation that says yes i must upgrade. Add this too the fact that MS seems to want to ram the metro UI down everyone's throats without any choice and its becomes less compelling to upgrade. The last nail seems likely to be MS dumb as post pricing scheme. Can you think of any reason you want to upgrade and what feature makes that a must?
TBH no - windows 7 works for me and I found 8 to get in the way of simple tasks. You're right about the pricing though
Metro aside, win8 can be looked upon as a win7+sp2. There are a few added features- built in iso handling, pdf reader, explorer ribbon that can be added to win7 with 3rd party tools like ultraiso, acrobat/pdfexchange etc. etc. There are some features like windows2go and storage spaces that are unique to win8 but which may or may not be useful to the end user. E.g. I'm too poor to buy a 32gb stick for portable windows (neither do I need one) and I really dont need additional space other than what I can add through my existing external drives. Then theres hybrid boot but the speed's not critical unless you reboot 20 times a day. Theres added security, admin in win8 seems to be less powerful than the one in win7, but heck I always disabled all security. The killer feature I had been waiting for was a new file system- protogon. Now we have ReFS but dont know whether ReFS=protogon and whether ReFS will be extended to windows 8 (other than server). That has been the real disappointment. So, if RTM introduces ReFS for the consumer editions, I'll be tempted otherwise......if the bright guys at MDL manage to crack it, I might switch otherwise, win7's doing the job just fine.
nowone should go at 8 today cause at this time there is almost not softaware working on. , why not for look(it mean its only about curiousity.) , ps: but ofc nowone can know everything ...
... if u cant run urs favorite softs ther's no point (lose time for 'EATCH' one - some 0%chance working - new = more bugs/instability than olderer ) ...
What I am seriously concerned about is the new Kill-Switch. If MS dare to invade my privacy that deeply, I will refuse to use that kind of new "technology". Otherwise, if DAZ is going to manage "things ;-)" in Windows 8 and you can completely turn that crappy Metro stuff off, it might be worth a try. Still pretty happy with Win7.
For me, yes. Its faster, more secure, saves settings across my pc's, works better on older hardware, Metro makes it easier to use. Dont see any downside.
almost no software works on Windows 8? .. hmm, i've got a lot of software running on Windows 8 i guess you must have no favourite software then. ok, this is true, to a point. people care about their privacy, it's the corporations that don't seem to care about the peoples privacy
Who says DAZ can manage it? The UEFI stuff is different from SLIC 2.X technology, and especially much harder to bypass. I think MS has things set up pretty good in Win8. I think the war is moving away from the pre-boot area to somewhere else, unless someone manages to break the UEFI security so unsigned firmware can be flashed.
stannieman you have hit the nail right on it`s head! that was my fear all along.. let me elaborate.. i have seen uefi come along. it is basically an improvement. compared to a 16 bit bios, but, from the first it was obvious that m$ was going to abuse the `secure` boot thing to block any oem machine from booting open source operating systems.. this is not a thing that the avarage salesman in the computershop is going to tell you..more than likely he is not even aware of it..
If you can a add a certificate that is uniquely created per system into the UEFI. And that the UEFI will not revoke it. Then you can run your own program at boot. Too bad that Microsoft did not extend programming support to the Bochs-team. Instead of Windows XP-mode, we could have Windows 7-mode on the arm.