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Re:HP brings Windows 7 back 'due to popular demand' as buyer... by increment_i on Monday January 20, 2014 @07:33PM (#7092615)
>"People are afraid of change, simple as that."

I'd counter that with "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

I spent a few days with Win 8 and I've never seen a more unintuitive UI experience in my entire life. The frustration of having to re-learn simple computing tasks far outweighs any aesthetic improvements IMO.

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Re:HP brings Windows 7 back 'due to popular demand' as buyer... by adamors on Monday January 20, 2014 @07:48PM (#7092658)
> I'd counter that with "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

But by that logic, every new version of a software is useless because the previous one was good enough to be released, therefore wasn't broken.

EDIT: also, the multi-monitor support in Windows 8 runs circles around the crappy implementation that was in Windows 7.

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Re:HP brings Windows 7 back 'due to popular demand' as buyer... by increment_i on Monday January 20, 2014 @08:07PM (#7092737)
There's nothing wrong with adding features and improving software, but if you're going to obscure computing idioms that are in some cases decades-old (e.g. closing and minimizing windowed content), you had better be sure that is what users want.
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