It’s interesting, now that pretty much ALL companies want to invade people’s privacy, how much we’ve forgotten of what was once the majority attitude in such matters. Everyone went ballistic! Even the milder article’s authors noses were out of joint because activation verification needed only to be done once (if at all as most felt), not at each and every boot in perpetuity. At issue was that Microsoft called home each time a Vista PC booted to report on the product’s activation status. ![]() The launch of Vista (2006), was extremely contentious, had everyone (including the tech pundits) up in arms over MS’s Windows Genuine Advantage(WGA)notifications. But my work computer will stay on 8.1 for a while, downgrading to Visual Studio 2015 was enough fun for a while there. If i could be bothered to reinstall i would go with Windows 8.1 for a while until Windows 10 got more mature, but i am sure it will be very popular again because it has a small start menu….Īt least with Windows 10 i won’t receive 10+ questions about how to shutdown the computer like i did with Windows 8(.0), and on a slightly happier note i think Windows 10 is slightly prettier than Windows 8.1. Searching for chrome gives me nothing, same with apps. It used to search in all words in the app/file names, but now it only searches from the start, except for a few built in programs where they seem to cheat, for some reason Microsoft Edge does come up when searching for Edge, but for chrome i have to type “google ch” before i get it as first hit. This matters because i have a 16/10 monitor so i get black bars when it didn´t figure out that i turned off the TV.Īnd last but worst, they ruined the start menu search. Now i need to go into settings and change it manually. Windows 8.1 would automatically switch between single display mode and duplicated display mode when turning the TV on and off. Having a computer part time connected to a TV through HDMI got much worse. Not constantly, but for sure a few times per day. In general it just feels a bit slower over all, and it stutters once in a while. ![]() Windows 8.1 for me was like 2 seconds from entering my password until itw as fully ready, now it is about 10 seconds. Yes yes, the start menu obstructs the entire display, but i only look at the search result part of it anyway so makes no difference to me if they displayed dancing unicorns on the parts not containing the results. Using the keyboard to start apps is probably faster than just reaching for the mouse. I like the Windows 8.1 start menu, it works great for finding apps and files using the keyboard and again is doing this much faster than Windows 7 did it. I don´t care about any of the modern ui apps, except netflix because that was the only way i found to get surround sound output. ![]() First i am probably one of the few who prefer Windows 8.1 to Windows 7, it is prettier and faster and works the same as Windows 7 if you just ignore some of the visuals. ![]() I used to be a heavy KDE user and loved spending hours tweaking every last little detail, but these days i just want to either get work done or have fun, neither includes tweaking the operating system.Īnyway, i actually agree that Windows 10 sucks, but for different reasons. Interestingly there aren’t really any of his complaints i care about.
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