A new Windows 8.1 update tries to win back desktop diehards

[the_tyrant]

I just got it, its ok, but nothing significant. As a service pack, I guess its sufficient.

I was personally hoping that they would add Cortana to it, but they didn't. Microsoft is slipping without Steve Ballmer!

[Joefour]

I never did like Bill Gates and that nerdy boy next door act he puts on. Or Microsoft and the antics they pull with their customers. And I dislike his socialist leftizoid father even more. The old man has been at the forefront of trying to get an income tax into WA state for years. WE THE PEOPLE have turned it down at the polls about a half-dozen times, but they just don't get the message. Check the record--it's always extremely wealthy people who push the socialist (read communist) agenda.

Screw 'em. I'm sticking with XP until my machine is ready for the retirement home.

[Skybird]

Joefour, at least update to W7, which is okay, I myself jumped from XP to W7 directly two years ago, and it was a breeze. You XP does not get supported with security updates anymore (from right now on!), in other words if you iuse it on the internet, you help to spread malware and viruses and bring many many other people into trouble, because of your infested and unprotected platform.

If you are seriously ill and infectious, you also would not run around and sneeze your virus-infested breath into people's faces, would you?

You must not care for your own safety, and if you want to end up with a corrupted platform, okay, go ahead. But that you accept to bring hours of workload and even criminal fiscal risks onto others, is not excusable.

So for the sake of reasonability, update to W7, or cut the wire from that machine to the web forever.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Now the update rolled out, and the startup menu is not there, not in the way MS claimed it would be. Now MS says that it will come later. Maybe in Autumn.

Maybe in W9.

http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/b...uild-2014.aspx

"Fool if you think it's over..."

They really try to push this junk down unwilling people's throats, don't they.

You know, I really try to like MS, they do many things pretty damn right, and often their software proves to be offering the best argonoimic interface there is, whereas many open source alterntaives suffer in that regard, and very much so. MS could easily be the most loved softwar eproducer there is, if only they would not ruin their merits needlessly time and again, by their own decisions to make poeople want what they do not want.

They also should stop trying to reinvent the wheel every couple of years. The interfac eof the old Office software or words, was working well, intuitive, and was ver ymuch accepted. So mucz bt hat most other contesters cocpied it more or less. Then they thought they must come with that new design in menus, since Office 2010 I think it was. May it be that, may it be the GUI for Fritz - since then I am searching and struggling to find the functions that I want. 80 or 90% of the former intuitive handling - gone.

They plan to mess up their successes. And that is a stupid thing to plan.

I agree with every thing you just said.

I'm not upgrading my game desktop to Win7 or 8, I guess I will disconnect it from the web and use it only for gaming.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Skybird

The interfac eof the old Office software or words, was working well, intuitive, and was ver ymuch accepted. So mucz bt hat most other contesters cocpied it more or less. Then they thought they must come with that new design in menus, since Office 2010 I think it was. May it be that, may it be the GUI for Fritz - since then I am searching and struggling to find the functions that I want. 80 or 90% of the former intuitive handling - gone.

They plan to mess up their successes. And that is a stupid thing to plan.

I'm still working on Office 2003 and I will continual to use it as long as I can. I hate the new look its awful, looks like some loaded up a cannon fired it at the screen and said yea that looks good lets sell that.