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After asking a question on how to upgrade to 8.1 a lot of respectable ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) ians have told me that it was a bad idea doing that (going from 7 to 8.1) and of course, I've wondered what is so terrible about it as it Works for me...
So here's another question: why 7 is much better tan 8.1 or if you prefer... why 8.1 is as terrible compared to 7?
Please don't start flame wars or similar... everyone has its opinion and it must be respected.
I'll start:
windows 8 pro's:
- Internet explorer 11 knows that it has to change it's spell check when you change the input language.
- You can pause large file operations.
- It starts really fast.
- When you start several copy operations all of them are stacked onto one single dialog.
- Once you know that windows+c shortcut getting into the control panel is a breeze.
- In a multi display environment you have the task bar in all the displays and then you can reach all your open programs from any display and show the start menu in the display you are looking at...
windows 7 pro's:
- start menu is much better.
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modified 18-Mar-15 13:27pm.
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Why does Win8 suck? Simple...
Your computer has installed updates and will restart in 30 minutes
[Restart Now] [Close]
I clicked Close, because I'll restart when I'm %(*#ing well ready to restart... Go back to doing things...
Your computer has installed updates and will restart in 15 minutes
[Restart Now] [Close]
What the elephant? I told it to shut up!
...and so on, until the automatic reboot...
Obviously, once I experienced that, I turned it off so it'll never do that again... But no operating system should force a reboot like that, without even giving an option to postpone.
The start screen is annoying, but not a deal-breaker... Haven't found anything else I hate about it yet... Of course, I only have it on my laptop, not my Win7 desktop, so it hasn't seen heavy use.
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Sadly they have also taken that idea to Windows Server 2012 too
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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It did pretty much the same thing on Win 7, but you could choose to postpone any reminders for four hours, which was much more reasonable.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Huh. Mine has never done that. All I get are the updates being installed when I shutdown or reboot. What am I doing wrong?
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What you've got there is a bad case of unchecked I.T. administrator arrogance.
(Heyyyy here's something that'll make my job a teensy bit easier... And screw the people whose work it trashes, they stepped away from their computer, so fsck them.)
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Umm, no... Home machine, not work. That's out-of-the-box behavior, courtesy of Lenovo
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So... the administrator works at Lenovo, setting those defaults.
Maybe it was the same person that installed the giant advertisement pushing security hole, maybe just part of the team.
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Work environment: Windows 7 Enterprise
Home environment: Windows 8.1
I like the 'Start' button Windows 7, but, being in a corporate environment, we get patches pushed when someone else decides and the laptop will restart after a defined period. No, I can't shut it off.
So, the auto-restart isn't an issue - I'm going to get auto-restart either way.
On Windows 8.1, we have an account for my wife and myself; a separate account for our daughter. I like being able to use parental controls to limit what she sees and limit the amount of time she can be on the computer.
For a home machine, I haven't found anything issues to complain about.\
Is the layout different? Yes, but the layout was different going from a green screen in college to Windows 3, and then again on Windows 95... Change is constant.
Tim
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Tim Carmichael wrote: Change is constant.
True. It would be nice if we'd only commit those changes that are actually improvements, cause quite often they are just that - changes.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Right, change for change's sake is user-hostile.
Let me pick which changes to activate!
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You're awesome!!! We need to get that valuable knowledge out to the voters before November, 2016!! I mean seriously, if you're just voting for change, all you are doing is rolling the dice. And if you already live in the best country in the world (based on who is trying to get in and who is trying to get out  ), you probably wouldn't want TOO much to change randomly.
hatfok
King Yiddum's Castle
Pegasus Galaxy
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Tim Carmichael wrote: Is the layout different? Yes, but the layout was different going from a green screen in college to Windows 3, and then again on Windows 95... Change is constant.
Ah, but it doesn't have to be. It's a balancing act, between progress (change is good!) and what is already good and familiar (change is bad!)
I see it as kind of like the progression of cooking (speaking from personal experience here...)
DOS and earlier were kind of like PB&J sandwiches. Basic, but kept you fed.
Windows 3/3.1 etc were like microwave ramen. Slightly more difficult to make, but still, kept you fed.
Windows 95 was a step up to grilled cheese. Getting better, but still, not all that great.
Windows 98 was adding ham to that grilled cheese.
Windows 2000 was pairing cream of tomato soup with that grilled ham and cheese.
Windows ME was back to ramen.
Windows XP was a medium sirloin with a loaded baked potato. Close, but not quite there yet.
Windows 7 was a perfectly cooked rare filet mignon with a loaded baked potato and asparagus with hollandaise. Perfection.
Now Windows 8... That is like you took a look at that beautiful meal that was Windows 7... And got greedy. You said 'I want more. I can do better.' But what you ended up with was an over-seasoned, over-cooked, filet, a potato with flavors that don't pair well, and hollandaise with a consistency that more closely resembles cold butter, than maple syrup. All because you couldn't leave well enough alone. Now your wife is upset with you because you ruined her favorite meal, and you had to order pizza.
Progress only comes from experimentation, and we certainly learn more from our failures than our successes. Still, you have to learn when to leave well enough alone. Microsoft has been in business long enough now that they should have already learned that lesson.
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I note that you forgot Vista.
I bet you'll forget Win 8 even quicker.
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Vista: Bleah! Did you have to remind me of that disaster? 
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Y'know what's really funny?
I still have a Vista PC in use, mainly as a file server, but I still sometimes sit at it.
I think I'm one of the nine people in the world who didn't have a problem with Vista -- the only thing I objected to was the "wow factor", but the first time I booted the PC, it asked me if I wanted the "wow factor" cr@p, I said "NO!", and it never bothered me about it again.
It was lovely and fast, with all that memory that was added to handle the "wow" being freed up.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I've still got a laptop running Vista mainly being used as a media device. I agree, I didn't have a problem with Vista, other than the fact it was over hyped and didn't add anything to XP. As for Win 8.1, I've got 2 PCs and a tablet running it and I really only have 2 dislikes
1) No start menu
2) The hover in the lower right you have to do to get the settings to show up
Other than that it's not that bad and the wife and kids are able to use it effectively. I'm still running Win 7 on my PC but, like with Vista, I didn't have a compelling reason to upgrade to 8.1. I will be upgrading it to Win 10, mostly cause it's a free upgrade.
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Guess I'm one of the few people that use third party menu apps in Windows... Had Classic Shell running since switched from XP to Win 7.
Never actually noticed the lack of menu in Win 8.
Classic Shell had 15 million downloads according to SourceForge. Probably about 1% of the Win 8.x users checked it out. Maybe someone should have mentioned going to third party apps in their tirades against Win 8.x on all the IT media.
The idea that you can change to a third party app if you don't like the base app is why lots of us use Firefox or Chrome. So why not a menu app?
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Vista is the most beautiful Windows ever. It is not as polished in the details as XP was, but compared to W7... well, W7 has the chunky taskbar, baby steps to touch, has the single panel borders in Windows Explorer while they can be resized with mouse. It has icons changed to text - cost cutting, time constraint, touch support - who knows?
Vista had the same poised Start menu - just leave the mouse over All programs while looking for a frequently used program...
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Oh right, Vista. That would be like you bought a sirloin, but they'd mislabeled it and it was really a flank steak. Surprise! Fat and gristle!
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Vista was not forgotten, as it was in effect an unpolished version of Windows 7, so with that analogy I would consider it the cooking process. Literally under the hood they are identical, but because it's still cooking it doesn't have the same flavours.
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That's a very good analogy.
How would you react if you went to a restaurant, and they gave you uncooked and part-cooked ingredients, then charged you the full price?
You'd never go back there, right?
If it weren't for the fact that Windows is pre-installed on 99.9999% of home PCs, they would lose a huge chunk of the home PC market.
If more people had to choose and install their operating systems, more people would make different choices. But Windows has that huge audience captive, and no-one treats a captive audience with respect.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Or you could think of it as s chef trying to come up with a new item menu, it takes a few rounds of trial and error before you get the recipe right. That's what Vista was, the trial and error. A little to much chili. The chef experiments a bit more, and he came up with Win 7, with just the right amount of kick to it. Every chef requires guinea pigs to try out his new creations.
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But no professional chef serves a dish that he knows to be bad.
Why are you making excuses for them? Especially to me, one of the nine people who liked Vista.
For me, they should simply have put no effort at all into the "wow!" thing, and spent more on fixing broken stuff, but I didn't have any major gripes with it (except the "wow!" thing, of course).
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I'm not making excuses for anyone. A professional chef will toy around with things til they are to his liking and then he will use guinea pigs to see if other people like it. It's the same deal, and it applies to anything software related, just because people on the inside like it does not mean people on the outside will. My original reply was because listed various flavours of Windows over the years to various food stuff and someone piped in that they "forgot" Vista, but I don't think they did. As I said, Vista and Win 7 are identical under the hood, I was using the analogy someone else stated about the various flavours of Windows over the years, going from Ramen noodles to a nicely cooked fillet mignon. Quite literally Win 7 IS Vista, just cooked differently to give it wider appeal.
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