IFireflyl said:
Grammatical errors aside, you don't understand it because you likely weren't someone who used Windows the way the people that complained about Windows 8 used. I hated Windows 8 because Microsoft "dumbed down" the OS to make it "more convenient" for kids who play around on their phone/tablet. They took the OS from their worst selling product (phones/tablets), and they replaced their best selling product with that mobile OS. That is the stupidest marketing decision I've ever seen. If a company makes/does something stupid you don't say, "People screw up from time-to-time, but I'm sure that they'll get better. In the meantime let me replace something I enjoy with this thing that gives me fits of rage." That would just be encouraging the company to continue making/doing stupid things. I didn't get Windows 8 because I wanted to. I have Windows 7 on my main desktop. I have Windows 8.1 on my laptop that someone bought me for Christmas with Windows 8.1 pre-installed, and on my work laptop that my company pre-installed. Windows 8.1 was/is horrible for me. Windows 7 has the functionality that I liked. I am "with the times". I'm just not so stupid that I'm going to pay a company to make piss-poor decisions.
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Grammatical errors? Besides "get on with the times" which I hadn't realized how wrong it was until I read it a second time, my post seems grammatically correct (I had someone else check it since I got really paranoid lol).
Anyways I didn't mean it like that. I did hate Win8 at first and I did dislike MS for a long time (even though I preferred X360 to PS3 but still). I even made fun of them every chance I had. However, during the last year I realized MS isn't as bad as many people claims they are. Sure, they DID mess up with Windows 8, but they can't just radically change everything from it. Keep in mind Win10 is meant to unify all their devices, so some stuff from Win8 that works for mobile devices or Xbox UI or even the HoloLens will probably be kept (as to make Win10 "recognizable" among all platforms), but that doesn't mean it will look exactly like a Mobile OS. I see Win10 as a midpoint in-between Win7 and Win8, and for now most people seems to like it (which is actually a quite remarkable achievement for MS since every time they announce something they are automatically bashed unfairly by everyone (except for XO reveal, that WAS justified lol but hey, at least they fixed it). I sometimes think Win 8 was just a step forwards in this [Windows 10] direction, so that must be why "they grabbed the OS from their worst-selling division and put it on their best-selling one. They are trying to create an fully functional ecosystem, you know. Apple does it. Macbook, iMac, Mac Pro, iPhone, iPod, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch... All of these devices are tied together and share many characteristics, so people that buy Apple products for one thing is more likely to buy another product for something else. It creates an ecosystem that people becomes accustomed to and won't get away from so easily. That is the ultimate objective of Windows 10.
I'd like you to give me some examples of functionality that Win7 did better than 8. I never really liked Metro and how it opened things like music or pictures on a Music or Images App, but those are things anyone with some knowledge can find his way around easily, it's not that hard to fix most of the stuff people hates Windows 8/.1 for. For everything else, basically any program that works in Windows 7 works in Windows 8 (Though I'm speaking for myself since I haven't had any trouble so far), so in the long run you basically have a bit uglier but faster version of Windows 7. You may be right, maybe I don't use it the same way that people that complains does, so that's why I'm asking you for examples. I just want to know - honest, I'm not really arguing but rather sharing my opinion.
