windows 8 vs 7

**Glitch** · 11-10-13, 10:29 PM

We have 3800 PCs at my hospital. We are 50% done to Win7 conversion. Have until end of April. HCA however has over 100 hospitals of which we are just one. Has to be well over 100,000 PCs corporation wide. We have no intention of switching to the nightmare that is Windows 8.

My parents bought a win 8 laptop. Gave me a migraine just trying to find windows explorer. After 30 min of trying we formatted and went with 7. MUCH simpler and easy to understand.

**Adretheon** · 11-10-13, 10:53 PM

Originally Posted by Glitch

My parents bought a win 8 laptop. Gave me a migraine just trying to find windows explorer. After 30 min of trying we formatted and went with 7. MUCH simpler and easy to understand.

If it took 30mins for you guys to find explorer, then that sounds more like a user error. Win8 is not hard at all for people to use. Tonight I taught my completely computer illiterate Aunt how to use Win8 in about 30mins. She's the kind of person who has a hard time setting up emails without having to call for help, but after explaining Win8 she was good to go.

**Phyrelight** · 11-11-13, 07:26 AM

it took me using it for one day while setting up and installing software. Its different, that is for sure. Once you figure out where stuff is its not that bad. You can right click and go to properties and tell it to boot to desktop instead of metro.

**Gumby** · 11-11-13, 08:00 AM

Do I lose geek cred if I say I kinda like metro? Once you get used to the changes it is a better interface. I wanted to hate it but it won me over.

Having said that, I don't know why they couldn't have included both as options from the start. Then everyone gets what they want.

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**Warprosper** · 11-11-13, 08:13 AM

Originally Posted by Gumby

Do I lose geek cred if I say I kinda like metro? Once you get used to the changes it is a better interface. I wanted to hate it but it won me over.

Having said that, I don't know why they couldn't have included both as options from the start. Then everyone gets what they want.

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Nope..

I love metro..

I love pressing the windows key and just typing commands or searching.. It's very intuitive and flexible.

**Bunni** · 11-11-13, 08:18 AM

Originally Posted by Warprosper

Nope..

I love metro..

I love pressing the windows key and just typing commands or searching.. It's very intuitive and flexible.

Launchy

Been using it since xp, much more responsive than the metro searcher when i tried it..... Might wanna check it out

Tablet-

**RhysJD3** · 11-11-13, 09:47 PM

Originally Posted by Warprosper

Nope..

I love metro..

I love pressing the windows key and just typing commands or searching.. It's very intuitive and flexible.

What would Sheldon say...

The Big Bang Theory Windows 7 Userfriendly - Sheldon doesnt like that - YouTube

**dex71** · 11-12-13, 09:23 AM

I doubt that Metro will be around long. Too many people hate it. At best, MS will likely come up with a way to turn it off, and go back to the much better and more popular Windows Start Screen.

Some may like Metro (Hell....some people like Brussel Sprouts, so anything is possible), but many do not. The key that MS forgot is that everyone wants to customize/personalize everything, so pigeonholing everyone into the Metro bs was only destined to backfire. Let people choose to turn it on or off, and I bet they would get more people willing to give it a shot. I tried it, and I don't like it.....so I choose to work around it with Classic Shell.

**RhysJD3** · 11-15-13, 11:40 PM

Or make Metro customizable...

Sorry, more customizable.

**Phyrelight** · 11-16-13, 09:28 AM

if you right click on the toolbar in desktop mode you can configure properties to always default to desktop mode (on startup, when closing programs etc). I never have to see the metro screen and I didn't have to install a 3rd party application.