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I have recently just got a new laptop as my old one just took way too long to do anything and after spending a 2hrs entering 3 invoice details onto it I was ready to throw it out of the window. I love my new laptop - its purple dontcha know - but I cannot get used to Windows 8. Everytime I move the mouse these flipping menus pop out the sides and yet, when I need these menus, I can't get them to 'pop' out for love nor money.

Also the whole thing is set up with 'apps', like a phone. If I wanted to use apps, I'd just use my phone or iPad, surely. 

Am I just getting old? Please tell me I'm not past it yet. In my heart (and head if truth be told) I'm still in my early twenties - I have convinced my children I am 25, although my eldest, age 7, asked why I was 25 at every birthday.

Sorry if I start bombarding you with tonnes of posts again - its all down to the new 'pooter.



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Windows 8.

Yeuck.

That is all I have to say on the matter. Sorry. :)

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Buy a Mac!

Unhelpful I know but I haven't looked back since I did

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Apple.

Yeuck.

And that's all I have to say on THAT matter. :)

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My input using the Vince approved appraisal method :

Apple : Yeuck
Windows 8 : Yeuck

Someone should have serious words with the new generation of managers at Microsoft who feel that they know so much better than the people buying their products what the consumer needs.

If the software makes it more difficult to work then it does not properly fulfil its own remit.

After Vista you would have thought that MS would have learned a lesson but I'm begining to suspect that they release a duff operating system every second one in order to increase the sales when they release a good one.

I cannot see any business choosing to move from 7 (or XP) to this bag of nails that doesn't run half the software that people have on their systems at the moment.

It will certainly not be going near any of my machines and I will not buy machines from a manufacturer that insists on inflicting that operating system upon me.

Thankfully most of the major manufacturers have spotted the flaws in business using the operating system and still offer either system as a no cost option.

I think that Dell for one will do another Vista where they didn't stop offering XP until the release of 7.

Ok, rant over for now.

Shaun.

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They keep wanting to install it on my pc at work, because they say "it is only £25". Of course my response is, "I will only go through the trouble of a re-install if it is A, onto a new computer built by me and B, if I can put windows 7 on...................... apparently I'm not getting an upgrade.

Of course windows 8 isn't all bad, well not since people having been writing little programs that make it work like windows 7 ...........

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I didnt actually have a choice. We reserved a laptop from Argos which, in the catalogue/online, said had Windows 7, but it came with Windows 8. Apparently it is standard now with any new computer so Argos can't do anything about it as they can't chose. Should've gone to Dell or someone that can customise your computer to suit your needs. Takes me ages to try to copy and paste things when needed as the stupid menus pop out all over the place. No idea how to prevent them - have looked on settings and tried to customise them but can't find anything to prevent them.

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I think that the best cure for your shiny new laptop is Format C: (#1, #2) and then do a fresh install of Windows 7! lol

there's a reason that it's only £25 Steve.


#1 don't try this at home kids!!!!

#2 espechially don't try this in the office

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anyone any thoughts on Windows 365?

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I've said it before, windows versions go shit, goood, shit, good.... Always have.

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Since I'm moving up from Windows 2000 (and 2003 on my other machine), both still satisfactory, I'm not sure whether 365 is in the good phase or not. I'm only upgrading because a client objects to the way 2000 reformats his letter template. Shows how responsive to client requirements I am!

 

Correction ... for "Windows 2000/2003/365," read "Office 2000" et cetera.



-- Edited by ilsm on Tuesday 4th of February 2014 10:22:09 PM

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I use office 365, I find it an easier way of paying. It's just 7 quid a month so spreads the cost. The only problem is I cant put it on my windows 7 laptop or xp desktop.

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Every now and then a pop my head above the parapet, to say a few words. I'll be quick.

I like Windows 8. I like 365. I like the fact I can access my clients spreadsheets and documents anywhere, including on my phone. I have it on my desktop, laptop and phone and no longer have the frustration of having to wait to access things. I know there's we're products before, but never quite as easy as I find it now.

I'll go back down now.


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I am using windows 8 at a clients and slowly getting used to it- some things about it rag me off but generally getting round it ok, I got Office 365 on my PC and hated it - especially the Outlook side of things but gradually that has corrected itself- it now speaks to my phone/Ipad with my calendars etc. which it wouldn't before so all in all ok with both now !

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Looks pretty unanimous to me ... I think I'll give it a try.

Thanks, everyone.

Iain

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Define unanimous. lol

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I have windows 8 on all my computers, i got it when it was on offer for £25 last January, and I swear buy it.

I bought a cheap vista machine a few years back, i only got it to write a sage manual on, so i got the cheapest of the cheap.  Not long after under vista it was unusable.  I put window 8 on there to see what it did and the difference is amazing, it gave it a whole new lease of life.

I also have a windows phone, and use skydrive heavily for all my documents, so where ever I am i can bring up spreadsheets and and PDF on my phone on the skydrive site, amended them and when i get home, my computer automatically has the latest version of the document.



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Sure that it has some advantages Nick, but I dare you to tell Neil that Windows 8 is better than 7.

I double dare you.

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Windows 8 has been nothing but trouble for me since I got it over Christmas. I couldn't get my emails to come into Outlook until I "upgraded" to Office 2013 (more expense). Then I upgraded to 8.1 and my internet connection has been dodgy since. Haseeb at Microsoft and I are getting along famously with him spending more time on my laptop than I am. I thought he'd fixed it last week but today I have yet again had "page can't be displayed". As soon as a better version comes out I will be getting rid of this pile of poo asap!

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Windows 8 on a Dell XPS ultrabook, has been running very nicely for me for several months. Stable, some under-the-hood improvements over Windows 7.

The key for me is Start8 - so I am not using TIFKAM (The Interface Formerly Known As Metro) so it looks and behaves like Windows 7.

Windows 8 also rejuvenated a 6-year-old Dell PC which originally ran Vista. Surprised even this jaded hack.

On my XPS I'm running a Windows 7 virtual machine constantly, in part for compatibility with a very old all-in-one printer driver, and some even-older applications. I also run XP VMs when necessary. All stable in W8.

When vendors like HP stop providing W7 installs, I'll happily deploy W8 to clients.

With Start8.

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I also have a big problem with Windows 8 which I use at one particular clients. My Sony Laptop has Windows 7 and I love it. My machine is 4 years old and sometimes throws a wobbler so I have just bought one of the few new laptops around which still has Windows 7 (another Sony Vaio but 18ins screen) and hopefully I shall be sorted out until Windows brings the next headache out. "If it's not broke, don't fix it".


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Seems to me, Microsoft has to bring out a new version of Office every three years or so to keep its cash flow flowing. Maybe 365, being subscription, will keep Microsoft happy and also result in common standards with everyone getting the same updates at the same time.

(From my own point of view, I haven't seen anything in the later versions that (a) I ever use and (b) wasn't already available in Windows 95. But I'm a famous Luddite.)

"Define unanimous" -

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Ahh, you don't count me... I'm hurt Iain. Just don't know how I'll sleep tonight after reading that.... lol.

p.s. it was only last year that I managed to decommission my last Windows 95 machine as I still had a client that I still supported that I had developed a package for using Excel 4 Macro's and bless there little cotton socks they certainly got their moneys worth out of it!

Offered a dozen or more times to rewrite the package to bring it up to date but they were old school "If it aint broke don't fix it".



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Shamus wrote:

Ahh, you don't count me... I'm hurt Iain. Just don't know how I'll sleep tonight after reading that.... lol.

 

 I know you're made of sterner stuff than that, Shaun, and I'm sure you slept as well as ever.

Great story about your old school clients ... tell me - how did you persuade them to close their leather-bound ledgers and put things onto computer?

Memories of musty ledgers and inky fingers flooding back now ... I wonder, does anyone here keep hand written books for anyone any more?  Is there a niche for low-tech bookkeepers?

 

 

Edit ... Besides, I got my unanimous count before you posted.



-- Edited by ilsm on Thursday 6th of February 2014 01:01:21 PM

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Yep, fell asleep on the Sofa watching the late night rerun of Have I got news for you on Dave.

I used to have a farm that kept proper Ledgers and when the farmer retired I loved that battered old leather bound 18th century ledger so much that he allowed me to keep it smile

It is one serious size beautifully kept ledger. You just don't see books kept like that anymore.

... ok, I admit it... Just start calling me Ebeneezer (that cratchett fellow should have been grateful of the candle that I allowed him to keep warm by, pah, staff today!).



-- Edited by Shamus on Thursday 6th of February 2014 01:11:34 PM

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