I still supply Win 7 laptops* pretty much exclusively at the moment... don't think I have bought a win 8 laptop in ages.
(to say business appetite for Win 8 machines is "low" would be a mastery of understatement!)
Nothing like leg amputation in fact.
Underneath there is probably something a bit better than Win 7 in some respects. Alas not all the gerbil cruft can be cleaned off as yet.
Nope, and that is my config.
Once the entire "metro" interface is
Don?t need to banish it, I launch and select the app I want to use from the quicklaunch toolbar just like I do with 7 and only ever use the text box for the stuff I don?t use often enough to have pinned to the QL toolbar.
The charms bar also
Works fine here.
Like hell it does, that's how I use them.
Doesn?t do that either.
Its completely trivial to use the Win7 UI if you don?t like it.
On 29/05/2015 09:25, John Rumm wrote: ...
OTOH, talking to a schoolteacher recently, they love it for the tablets the kids all get these days.
Sure, but that just makes it easier to use once its upgraded.
He original claim that 8.1 is virtually unusable is just plain wrong.
I saw a video of a bloke with no hands on Youtube who could change a bike inner tube.
Seriously...
That goes on the very few Windoze servers I have to run...
Yeah, saw the same youtube video. Amazing.
Nothing like what you need to do with 8.1
For XP there was nLite; for Vista there was vLite - is there any equivalent for W7/8? My XP Pro has been pared down and has run well for about 10 years. I'm considering building a new PC and would like to butcher the new OS in the same way.
So why not switch to Linux and be rid of Winblows forever? The same comment applies.
GUIs on servers? [Shakes head sadly.]
We're skipping it altogether. And we have ~300,000 licenses.
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Are you jumping to Windows 10, or going Linux?
How else am I going to admin a Windows 2008 server over an RDP connection? And no, I do not have enough to be bothered with an AD domain, policies and management systems. Ironically most of them are to hold the VMWare infrastructure together (vCenter server which can be virtual[1], Veeam backup, Veeam Monitor and a general expendible server that spans the main and management vSwitches for installing "dodgey" software on (ie non core, such as temporary load assessing utils and the like).
I made the decision to not have AD there (apart from the learning curve) as I wanted zero dependencies on at least the 2 critical servers.
This is a VM BTW so technically headless, but it does still have a virtual "head"
My lot have adopted it but some might consider that a good argument to do the opposite :) I could not possibly comment...
Seems to be a common approach... lets just hope they don't build any show stoppers into 10.
[1] later versions of ESXi have an option for a linux vCenter server.
Indeed, away from the desktop it makes more sense.
You could use the solution I do; say "fix this" to the Windows server admin.
Of course, this doesn't work well if you *are* the Windows server admin.
Anyway, my sadness was aimed at Redmond, not at the poor souls who have to use their execrable products to earn their daily crust.
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