Thread: win7 VS win 8

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    win7 VS win 8

    I am free to select (free of charge of course) between windows 7 and windows 8 (both professional versions you would recommend maybe)...Willing to here your input

    I am not going to use a touch screen or a tablet,or a mobile etc.
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    Right now I'm sticking with Windows 7 as a desktop OS until something forces me to do otherwise. Metro is cool and all for tablets and phones and the like, but it feels like three steps backwards in the desktop space. Also, from what I understand the "desktop" application in Windows 8 is butchers in various ways and despite its appearance in screenshots, doesn't play like previous iterations of Windows does.
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    Maybe i forgot to write it.I do not want to have tablets,mobile etc for windows..no touching screens are going to be used by me now..I am going to edit 1st post.

    So win7 - win8 : 1 - 0

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    Windows 8 is the best operating system MS has ever created. I'm not going to do a full review again here so:

    Windows 8 Review

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    Quote Originally Posted by RoD View Post
    Windows 8 is the best operating system MS has ever created.
    While all information given by that sentence might hold true, it does not answer the OP's question in any possible way. Have you been sent here by Microsoft's marketing office?

    @ question: My advice is clearly to stick with Windows 7 on the desktop. Unless switching to linux is an alternative.
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    I would go with a dual-boot Win7/Linux.
    I don't know much about Win8, though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dennis.cpp View Post
    While all information given by that sentence might hold true, it does not answer the OP's question in any possible way. Have you been sent here by Microsoft's marketing office?

    @ question: My advice is clearly to stick with Windows 7 on the desktop. Unless switching to linux is an alternative.
    What are you smoking? He is asking for a recommendation, mine is clearly for Windows 8. I love that you said my answer was not in any possible way helpful and then made a simple statement that your advice is to stick with Windows 7. So exactly what did you contribute to the conversation that went beyond my contribution? Had I advised Windows 7 you would have had nothing to say, but since my suggestion is Windows 8 you somehow feel the need to attack me as if I'm working for Microsoft.

    Your attack on me is silly and misplaced. Man, new guys these days.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RoD View Post
    What are you smoking? He is asking for a recommendation, mine is clearly for Windows 8.
    That's not what you said. You just stated it was the best operating system Microsoft had ever made (for whatever that means and how "best" might be measured here). EDIT: no aggression intended, btw.

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    My statement clearly implies that since it is the best OS they have made it is better than Windows 7. Don't see how that isn't clear and obvious.

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    So win7 - win8 : 3-1

    Please ,almost off-topic posts do not help(they are not totally off topic) do not help me and other people that might be reading write now.Even worse,if this may be a reference for somebody that has the same question as me,why should he read your argue? Thanks for your input,but keep it on topic

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    O_o

    Use the one you feel comfortable using.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phantomotap View Post
    O_o

    Use the one you feel comfortable using.

    Soma
    This requires me to install both,spent enough time with both and then decide.

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    Quote Originally Posted by std10093 View Post
    This requires me to install both,spent enough time with both and then decide.
    go to a computer store and try out a computer with windows 8. problem solved.

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    Correct.

    Don't you imagine that such a process will serve you better than asking for opinions when you don't know anything about our requirements or use strategies?

    For example, I find much of what "Windows 8" groupies forward as the best thing ever to be repellant to the point of disgust.

    I mean that literally. The day after my day spent with "Windows 8" I installed a "Gnu/Linux" distribution in a "dual boot" on all of the machines I manage and left notes for everyone to the effect of "Get used to this other operating system or find another codejammer to manage things.".

    So, you have two extremely different opinions about "Windows 8". On one hand you have "best thing ever" and on the other "worst thing ever".

    The only way you'll know who is "right" is to try it for yourself.

    Soma

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    Dual, triple, etc booting is very easy and has a world of uses. Think of trying both as a lesson in managing multiple systems.

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