HP brings back Windows 7 'by popular demand'

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selnor1983 said:

Pemalite said:

selnor1983 said:
Staying with Windows 8. Much better for my needs. It does everything 7 does and more. Why would I gimp myself.

No it doesn't do everything.

* Start button removed.
* Recent Documents removed.
* Unified Search removed, you now search catagorically.
* Gadgets are removed.
* Aero Glass is removed.
* Flip 3D is removed.
* Windows Classic and High-Contrast modes are removed. (Important for some of my clients who are vision impared.)
* Status Bar and Details pane in the Explorer shell removed.
* Some DUN options removed which are important to Dial-Up and users DSL users that may use PPPoE not to mention some forms of 2G/3G connections. (Needed some of this to dial into remote sites.)
* Network Map from Networking and Sharing is removed, I found it handy when dealing with a few dozen PC's at a LAN.
* Windows Defender no longer allows for scheduled scanning.
* DVD Maker was removed.
* Windows Media Center is removed. (It's now a seperate download.) And will not automatically start upon boot. (Important for HTPC's.)
* DVD and MPEG-2 codecs removed.

Don't get me started on the Ribbon interface for Explorer either, I didn't like it in office... I despise it in Explorer. :P

Windows 7 is still for me on my Desktops.
Windows 8 is absolutely fantastic on my Phone, the Metro GUI works incredibly well.
The Metro GUI is also really great on my Intel Atom tablet.

But try using Eyefinity and Metro. - Normally Metro shows allot of wasted space, white space or flat colour space, in Eyefinity that issue is compounded far more.

I do have high hopes for Windows 9 though, but some of the more critical and often used features in Windows 7 were removed for me in Windows 8, making Windows 8... A downgrade in every sense of the word.

I have a start menu on the new Windows 8.1. Alot of changes on 8.1.

Everything I use it for is better n 8 for me. I have a 28" all in one Desktop. Touchscreen. It blows my old Windows 7 PC away for speed and user functionality. I say I spend 70% of my time in Metro? I guess it does everything I need. All my desktop stuff when I need it, and amazing multitasking. I use Xbox Music across 3 devices for 1 cost, and use Xbox Video. So I have never used DVD, Bluray or any need for Codecs on my PC. I guess thats why Windows 8 trounces the performance of Windows 7 for me. Plus Project Spark!

Speed you say? Well. My PC is far from low-end, I have an SSD and I have one of the best consumer CPU's money can buy, I can assure you, Windows 7 is no slouch. - Heck I couldn't tell the difference between Windows 7 and 8 from a speed perspective on my Desktop. (It's a Core i7 3930K 6 cores/12 threads@4.8ghz, 32Gb of Ram, Samsung 840 Pro SSD.)

Where you do notice the difference is on systems with a mechanical drive and a slow CPU, for instance I noticed a dramatic increase in performance on my Dual-Core Intel Atom tablet with a crappy and slow 5400rpm HDD, you can't get much slower than that in the PC world.

As for Multi-tasking, you really can't beat Windows 7 in conjunction with Eyefinity. - On a "bad day" I may have a few dozen applications running at once doing work, pegging my Ram at 20Gb+ used, Metro makes that far to much of a chore.
However, I'm also a power user and not someone with simpler needs.

Xbox Music is pointless to me, I have over 20,000 songs in my collection that I have obtained over the past few decades (Legally!), I see no point in paying for a service that provides low quality audio.

DVD and other Codecs are important if you wish to transcode/encode video, saying it's not important is very silly as a small subset of users around the world find such functionality extremely important.