Why all the hate for windows 8

Get back to your roots and stop trying to catch up with smartphones and tablets on a PC!!!!! The two do not even correlate. Why would you pump out this impossible to use interface for anything else but a touchscreen.

I love the new patches but you need an only desktop version of WIN8. Please listen to the consumer or i will have to be forced, along with almost anyone else who knows how to do anything else besides check the latest picture of someones dinner on facebook, to go to APPLE!!! This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. How satisfied are you with this discussion? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.

Previous Next. I feel the same way. It amazes me that a product like this would be pushed on us, and then not try to resolve the issue. It is like we are being told it is our fault for a crappy product.

How satisfied are you with this reply? CmdrKeene MVP. You can't find your desktop tile? You only need to find it once, then you'll never see the tiles again. Just stay in the desktop and use all your normal Windows 7 programs the way you always have, no problem.

I agree, this program is for the birds. I was doing just find with an older version, until we were forced to upgrade to this crappy program.

The part I hate is when you try to go back and forth between web pages. The tiles definitely need to come off, or at least give us the option to choose using the tiles or the old way until maybe a person gets use to using the tiles. They are really pushing it this time! I agree that the new Metro UI is optimized and designed for touchpads and tablets.

I also feel similar about the new O. I really hate the way ms follows. Apple -for instance- has Mac for desktop, iPad for tablet etc. First of all, "Windows 8 is not Windows", as I read in a blog and I agree with it. Secondly, they launched the product without having it finished. No there are 2 UIs. And Windows 8. If they want a single O.

S, they should give you the option to Choose: 1. Metro UI, for those who need the new UI 3. Microsoft should know how to support what they do and fix the problems they design and promote. Promoting sth spectacular when it is a stupid thing you can replace by sth more stable. Windows 8 has caused me problems ever since I got my hp PC December The cursor is ALL over the place.

Please release the tested desktop version of the Windows 8. In reply to elizabethwhitmer's post on August 14, It's good to know I'm not the only one who feels less-than-charitable about Windows 8. My custom-built XP machine, which I truly loved, bit the dust after seven years of loyal service. I needed to get up and running quickly, so I bought an off-the-shelf computer ugh that had Windows 8 which I didn't want. Little did I know what I was getting into.

For the past week, I've been tearing my hair out trying to use it. The thing is a train wreck. My productivity has taken a real nosedive. I am not happy, and neither is my boss. I've been around since Windows 3. I've never seen such a mess as Windows 8. The first thing I did after seeing the horrifying start page was get a start menu.

What a relief. Those things are incredibly annoying. Windows 8 hasn't retained all of my settings. For instance, after I spent considerable time setting up custom sounds, they worked for awhile then went back to their default settings.

And it doesn't matter how many times I set folders to display List view. They always revert back to huge icons. Forget about customizing the display. Like a fool I followed Microsoft's instructions and ended up with a high-contrast setting I'm unable to turn off. This has resulted in every web page I view in both IE and Firefox displaying a solid white background. It looks awful. I've spent literally hours searching for a way to get web page backgrounds back.

I've found nothing that works. Things have been slip-sliding all over the place. When I tried to assign icons from an old Windows theme to three of my desktop items, for example, the items disappeared. I've searched for help with this and found none. Since I started trying to use Windows 8, I've spent more time unsuccessfully looking for help than I've spent doing anything else.

There's definitely something wrong with this picture. I could go on, but I suppose there's no point in it. Windows 8 has been a disaster for me and nothing I can say will change that. The best I can do at this point is to warn others away. I'm very, very disappointed in Microsoft for doing this to Windows users..

In reply to magovani's post on August 18, Just an update here. I've lost my custom cursors for a second time. I did nothing that could have caused this. I haven't changed any settings, rebooted or done anything else. I haven't touched a single thing. My cursors just spontaneously reverted back to default all by themselves.

And I'm still gazing at web pages with solid white backgrounds and missing graphics. I continue to find no help in getting a decent display back. Oh, and open windows are spontaneously and arbitrarily minimizing themselves now. Learn this shortcut. It will become your one true love. Alternatively, you can use an app launcher like Launchy , which pretty much negates the need for a Start menu anyway.

Easy peasy. Why People Are Upset : I'm not really sure. There are a lot of new desktop features. Why It Isn't a Problem : Sure, the tiled interface is the biggest change in the new OS, but there are a lot of other changes too, particularly those that pertain to the desktop—in fact, we've talked about them numerous times. Highlights include:. Even if you bypass the Start screen entirely, there are a lot new features to get excited about in Windows 8.

They may not have been as well marketed as the touch features—again, which I think was a mistake—but they are there, and they're worth upgrading for. Why People Are Upset : Gabe Newell, head of Valve the company that makes video game app store Steam , recently called Windows 8 a "catastrophe" , and other game developers joined in synchronized chorus about how Windows 8 is going to destroy our firstborn children and gamers should just stick with Windows 7.

Somehow this has led people to believe that gaming is horrible on Windows 8, Steam won't be supported, and that Microsoft is going to close off its system so you can only buy games in the App Store. None of these are true. Why It Isn't a Problem : In short: people are reading way too much into a few tiny comments. Gaming on Windows 8 is, well, the exact same as gaming on Windows 7. Performance is pretty much the same. Steam works just fine.

Valve has made no claims that they won't support Windows 8, and Microsoft has made no claims that they're going to shut Valve out. Valve's anger is understandable—after all, the built-in Windows 8 Store will be a big competitor—but there's no evidence to support that gaming on Windows 8 will be any less than gaming on Windows 7. So now you know that Windows 8 isn't really as bad as everyone says it is. In fact, it's pretty good.

But should you upgrade?