There is a lot to be said for Windows 8. \u00a0Some good, a lot of it bad.<\/p>\n
I have been reading articles which are suggesting that the most resent OS from Microsoft has the slowest uptake rate than any other OS they have released.<\/p>\n
Lets just take a think about that for a moment. \u00a0I have used most, if not all, OS that Microsoft have produced. \u00a0The ones that I didn’t like come down to the following. \u00a0Windows ME, Windows Vista and Windows CE (version 1).<\/p>\n
Excluding Windows CE for the moment (given its a mobile OS), lets concentrate on the main OS’s and give them a quick overview.<\/p>\n
Vista was touted as the one that would revolutionise OSs and use of an OS.\u00a0\u00a0Lets be straight – it was terrible. \u00a0Hardware step-up from XP to Vista was huge. \u00a0It didn’t come with a lot of things it originally promised, and came with a lot of things that it didn’t promise such as hardware issues, poor performance, luke warm functionality upgrades. \u00a0It was all pretty poor.<\/p>\n
Lets go back even further in time, back to Windows ME. \u00a0I was one of the very few people who purchased Windows ME. \u00a0It was an upgrade from the Windows 98 that my machine was running at the time. \u00a0I had seen the roll out of the Windows 2000 machines and read that it was based on that technology. Windows 2000 was an excellent OS – however, what I had read (or probably misunderstood) was that it\u00a0was<\/strong> based on the Windows 2000 kernel. \u00a0It wasn’t<\/strong><\/span>. \u00a0It was another Windows 9x OS – and with it came a whole heap of trouble. \u00a0I haven’t had as many “Blue Screens Of Death” as I did with that OS.\u00a0 It was worse than terrible.<\/p>\n IS WINDOWS 8 WORSE THAN THOSE? – NO! Running Windows 8 on a machine that doesn’t have touchscreen is not advised. \u00a0The experience is terrible. \u00a0I use Windows 8 on a MBA. \u00a0I wanted it due to development needs, but that said its not great to use.\u00a0 Only just “ok”.<\/p>\n I also have a tablet device running Windows 8 (full version not RT). \u00a0This is a much much better experience. \u00a0Windows 8 makes sense on a tablet. \u00a0Complete sense.<\/p>\n Now – in my view, the hardware is \/ was not ready for Windows 8. \u00a0Its not until hardware such as the Transformer by Asus start to run the Windows 8 OS, the OS will continue to flounder.\u00a0 It will start to make sense for people to migrate when hardware is ready. \u00a0I honestly feel that the\u00a0handy way you can move from a Office \/ Work machine to a tablet interface is without a doubt one of the best feature I have ever seen. \u00a0Windows 8 is perfect for that.<\/p>\n With Windows 7 being such a good (stable) OS and Windows 8 being a hybrid that requires touch screen – I can see that Windows 8 will continue to perform badly. \u00a0But for those who want to get the use of a PC, a laptop and a tablet device all in one then it’s perfect.<\/p>\n Windows 8 isn’t the best OS they have produce. \u00a0But its by no means the worst.<\/p>\n [Typos corrected]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is a lot to be said for Windows 8. \u00a0Some good, a lot of it bad. I have been reading articles which are suggesting that the most resent OS from Microsoft has the slowest uptake rate than any other OS they have released. Lets just take a think about that for a moment. \u00a0I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[10,18],"tags":[40,41,3,39,90,38],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-windows-8","tag-micorosoft","tag-os","tag-windows","tag-windows-7","tag-windows-8","tag-windows-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mjsZ-1q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","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=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWindows 8 is no where near as bad as either of those two operating systems. \u00a0The big issue with Windows 8, and I know this from personal use, is that there is a steep learning curve and that you MUST<\/strong> have a touch screen for it to make sense.<\/p>\n