OT: Windows 8

[Dave Plowman (News)]

The rule seems to be to always jump a Windows version.

XP was ok, Vista a pile of poo.

Win 7 is ok, 8 seems to be rubbish. I'm told 10 is ok.

[PeterC]

Thanks for that - downloaded the relevant 2. The one for W10 will doubtless be changed over the next few months.

[Tim Streater]

I've jumped all of them. It's much the best way.

[Huge]

Not just firewalling. All internal connections encrypted and authenticated.

That's why we have a clean desk policy & routine inspections to enforce it.

[Huge]

Write it down. Just not on a Postit, or in a spreadsheet called "Passwords".

[dennis]

is free and win10 will be out in a few months.

Win 8.1 is actually better than the previous versions and 10 is much better (so far).

[dennis]

Its virtually the same as win 7 on the desktop once you have classic shell installed. It does perform better than win 7.

[dennis]

So carry on using the desktop apps you were using.

[dennis]

What do you want it to do?

[dennis]

Its a part of windows.

[dennis]

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If you use the iso download tool it downloads and iso installer for the version of windows you select. I used one a couple of weeks ago to install 8.1 on a new SSD using a USB stick (no DVD in this yoga). It takes about 10 minutes.

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Its so difficult that it will actually ask you to upgrade and you have to say yes.

[Lobster]

On 29 May 2015, John Rumm grunted:

Yeah you were probably the "somebody" I suspect!

[Lobster]

On 29 May 2015, Huge grunted:

I work as a freelancer in the offices of quite a few companies, and I have never actually come across Win 8 once in a corporate environment

[Lobster]

On 29 May 2015, "Dave Plowman (News)" grunted:

Isn't that supposed to be why they omitted Win 9; to break the 'cycle'?

[Andy Burns]

Microsoft Surfaces with Win8 seem to displacing iPads at sites I visit.

[Tony Bryer]

It repeatedly makes me wonder how it ever got out the door - or even to beta. The first one-way mirror usability test would have shown long experienced PC users being reduced to tears.

I'm hoping Windows 10 is significantly better since I will need to have a W10 machine for testing purposes, and the box on which I am writing this (and do all my development on) is now overdue for replacement.

[John Rumm]

For example, you create a new network connection (a VPN say) and then go to make it "connect" for the first time. It will prompt for the username and password. Now in Win 7 this all happens in normal windows gadgets and controls, so you can for example go to another window select and copy the username, then paste it in, then repeat for the password. You can't do that with the win 8 version - you could have the username ready in the paste buffer, paste that in, but when you go to select the password from elsewhere, it simply consumes the first click outside of the slide in control and causes it to abandon the credential entry session and slide the panel closed.

[John Rumm]

Indeed, I do. Which means you have to spend a certain amount of time overriding all the default handlers that like to throw you out to a toy town one though.

A number of times I have had to rescue someone who has for example tried to open a PDF, got the bundled toy town reader, but then not been able to get back to the desktop after.

[John Rumm]

I would largely agree - hence why I posted the link to classic shell at the start of this discussion.

[John Rumm]

Maybe I was the "place" and the "somebody" ;-)

(as long as you steer clear of the retail shops, most of the online sellers will still have a selection of win 7 offerings).