Windows 8  By  onewheeldrive (Read 1,453 times)

Hated the layout of metro.
Windows did so much effort into the Metro desktop, making it the face of Windows 8, but everyone hated it!
That's why they included a regular Windows desktop layout too. It seems to have calmed some users, but the majority of people I know aren't happy with any of the 'improvements' windows has done since Windows 98Se.
In all honesty, if Windows would have a Win98Se update Service pack, that would make programs and browsing compatible, I would go back to 98!
Windows 98 was rock solid in the last 6 months when it came out; being replaced by buggy XP, which became rocksolid the year Vista came out, which never was rock solid, and Windows 7, which still is seen as a bloated operating system.

XP is still good for netbooks; but should 98 have been ran on a netbook, guarantee you'd have 1-3hours of battery life extra, and bootup times within 30 seconds! New isn't always better. Chevrolet figured that out in the hard way in the 80's when their Corvettes and other muscle cars stopped selling with the hike in gas prices.
Intel figured that out in the 2000's when their processors where overheating, and people where actually asking for less power hungry machines.
MS only figured that out after Vista, the biggest hog in the century!

I'm hoping windows 9 will be small, and efficient again!

Well, although I agree with a lot you say, I think technology should be used to expand your existing borders, rather than make lazy.
For instance, a GPS,
One can use it to find roads in area's one is not familiar.
But one can also use it to go from home to the job every day, eventhough one knows the road very well.

A GPS could help when uncertain which roads to take, but a smart man will try to do without GPS, unless he is short on time, and lost his way further than he thought.

While I agree with you that it should be a tool to enhance knowledge and expand horizons, It has become somewhat of a crutch for a lot of people.Also children of today spent way too much time gaming on the computers.and texting and whatever else they do that a great portion of the population is overweight and out of shape.I see too many employees on phones all day when they should be at their jobs. what im saying is that its ok for what it's meant to be, but too many are dependent on their smartphones and technology. Try to take a younger person's phone away for a week, and (if you can) let me know the results. I think its gotten out of hand.If you disagree, so be it.

Does or can? Should we get rid of that destructive technology we call a pen and paper? People might begin to rely on note taking and never use their memory. It's ridiculous to say just having it will destroy your mental faculties. You have a computer obviously, perhaps you should destroy it because, some people are consumed by online gaming or porn. Technology isn't of itself destructive. The way people use it might be. If it's all bad I suggest you go live in a cave and gather berries but be sure to not use a basket or a knife or clothing cause technology is destructive. Absolutes like yours are always wrong...

I'm growing tired of people blaming things for the actions of people. The moral degradation of society is caused by people not things. If there was no market for bad things companies wouldn't produce them. People blame everything but themselves for their fat, violent, worthless children. I have four kids one has a smart phone. When I felt his use was destructive I took it for a week. He is still alive and uses it more responsibly now. He's a straight A student with a job and college credit as a junior in high school. Is he an anomaly or is it something we did? Society is the way it is because individuals have chosen to move away from what kept us moral in the past. Technology isn't responsible ideas that are embraced to the detriment of the embracers are the problem. Until people take responsibility for their actions and the raising of their children things will only get worse. The idea that it is someone elses fault allows people to do nothing but blame others. I fear for us as a country, we happily buy the "poor me look what they did to me" garbage perpetuated by the very people instrumental in selling the stuff we are blaming for our own failings (television). Wake up America things stink because of the choices we made/make. It's no ones fault but our own. Violent video games only harm children whose parents buy the games for them and ditto for the rest. It's our fault period.

The more neurons you use to storing useless data like calculating, math, memorizing road maps, etc.. the less you have left for the really important things of life, like having sex, and riding scooters!