I have been using #Windows8 since it first came out.\u00a0 I spent the time learning the gestures and how to navigate around the OS.\u00a0 In the end, after a little while of training, I got used to it and found that the way that #Windows8 and #Windows8.1 were set up was actually quite good.\u00a0 It is fair to say that I did use the touch based hardware that it required \u2013 I never really used it without that and so can\u2019t say I found the who interface a real problem.<\/p>\n
For people who didn\u2019t have the time or the energy to learn Windows 8, the whole experience was quite underwhelming.\u00a0 People who were used to the START button and appropriate menu found it hard to learn all the new gestures to get around the OS.<\/p>\n
For me the light bulb moment came last night.\u00a0 Our house is slowly upgrading to Windows 10, last night it was the turn of the other Windows 8 tablet.\u00a0 The person in the house who owned that tablet didn\u2019t ever really get on with Windows 8 (really didn\u2019t have the time to invest in it) and so was rarely using the device because of that.\u00a0 I asked them if they wanted Windows 10 and their answer was (as expected) \u201cUp to you, you do what\u2019s best\u201d \u2013 at this point I should let the readers of this know that anything with a plug is always my responsibility \u2013 this goes for direct and extended family \u2013 if there is ever a device with a problem or a decision to be made about anything with a plug, i normally get a call \u2013 <\/em>I upgraded them<\/p>\n <\/p>\n After a LOT of faffing (the upgrade on the Sony tablet was the worst so far) I managed to get it working and handed it over to the real owner.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n They were INCREDIBLY impressed with Windows 10 and said (and I quote) \u201cthis is so much easier!\u201d<\/p>\n People moving from Windows 7 will really appreciate Windows 10.\u00a0 But those few Power Users of Windows 8 will struggle\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been using #Windows8 since it first came out.\u00a0 I spent the time learning the gestures and how to navigate around the OS.\u00a0 In the end, after a little while of training, I got used to it and found that the way that #Windows8 and #Windows8.1 were set up was actually quite good.\u00a0 It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,52,85,25,83,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","category-microsoft","category-samsung","category-windows-2","category-windows-10","category-windows-8"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Windows-10.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mjsZ-8l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}