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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 412740" data-attributes="member: 16749"><p>My wife has a laptop running Windows 8.1. We also have a desktop-type machine, running Windows 7.</p><p></p><p> In my opinion, Windows 8.0 and 8.1 are just awful, ergonomically. I don't know what drugs the folks at Microsoft were using when they did the user interface on it, but it seriously sucks. It seems that Windows 7 is the last version that makes any sense to someone who isn't also a heavy abuser of harmful, mind-destroying drugs.</p><p></p><p> My sense is that they were trying very hard to come up with a unified user interface that would work equally well on either a traditional desktop-type system, or on a mobile device such as a tablet or a cell phone, and they ended up with something that works very, very badly on either type of platform. I think the basic idea is valid, but in this case, the execution was very bad.</p><p></p><p> If I were in the market for another windows-based system, I would consider it worth going to considerable lengths to avoid infesting it with Windows 8.x. Hopefully, they'll do better with the upcoming Windows 10.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bob Blaylock, post: 412740, member: 16749"] My wife has a laptop running Windows 8.1. We also have a desktop-type machine, running Windows 7. In my opinion, Windows 8.0 and 8.1 are just awful, ergonomically. I don't know what drugs the folks at Microsoft were using when they did the user interface on it, but it seriously sucks. It seems that Windows 7 is the last version that makes any sense to someone who isn't also a heavy abuser of harmful, mind-destroying drugs. My sense is that they were trying very hard to come up with a unified user interface that would work equally well on either a traditional desktop-type system, or on a mobile device such as a tablet or a cell phone, and they ended up with something that works very, very badly on either type of platform. I think the basic idea is valid, but in this case, the execution was very bad. If I were in the market for another windows-based system, I would consider it worth going to considerable lengths to avoid infesting it with Windows 8.x. Hopefully, they'll do better with the upcoming Windows 10. [/QUOTE]
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