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Re:After 15 months, Windows 8 has sold 100 million fewer cop... by rickyc091 on Thursday February 13, 2014 @10:37PM (#7236725)
I spun up a VM of Windows 7 to do some browser testing and I was like, wow this OS is amazing, in comparison to Windows 8. Windows 7 is just simple and intuitive. Windows 8 is considerably busy. It makes sense why people don't want to update.
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Re:After 15 months, Windows 8 has sold 100 million fewer cop... by bunderbunder on Thursday February 13, 2014 @10:44PM (#7236753)
Similar experience here. I've got Windows 8 on my main computer. When I first installed it it felt odd but I honestly thought I'd get used to it. Nope, not yet. Every time I go back and boot up my desktop (mostly only used for video games), I'm struck all over again by how much more comfortable it is.

Win 8's UI is just. . . eeech. A year later and I still catch myself repeatedly slapping the cursor against the middle of the right side of the screen wondering why the hell it won't give me the charms bar.

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