Windows 8 referred to as "the new Vista" by Microsoft employees

Kind of sounds like a large group is referring to it like such to break camp and make a story on the net. That will hurt some, but not the majority that don't want that gui forced on them one way or another.

I'm a fan of the W8.. That's all that matters to me.. It works great with my WP device, and I love all the new modern features it has over Seven.. What's to justify❔All that matters is if you like something.. You can't always worry about what other think, or what the majority likes.. Some people aren't afraid to be in the minority because they'd rather please themselves than follow.. Spoken from a true WP fan.. Lol❕

W8 isn't bad, and looks great, but Mac OS X is almost in every way superior imo. I switched over last year and don't plan on going back.

Windows is windows, and Linux Ubuntu. Nothing can come to close to these 2! MacOsx limitations just like it's crap Ios caged platform...

Nothing wrong with that.. Whatever works best for you.... Good to have options.

I don't understand why you call users troll when they talk about something that's not mentioned in the article, when you do the same.

Article is about W8, which I gave my opinion on. How is that NOT directly related?

You were talking about Mac OS.

I want to switch too...but cant get over spending $2400 on 15” MBP!

I don't think most of the hate was OS on the phone. It actually makes more sense on windows phone and tablets and so on. The problem is when I'm on my main computer and forced to comply with this new gui that didn't seem to directly increase my productivity.Don't take this wrong, some people do appreciate this new gui, but I would appreciate "options". That's just my take on it however.

You do have the option to have W8 boot from the desktop... That's more options than you had with W7.. Think about it.

But it was built upon the vision of windows 8 through metro or modern or whatever it's called now. So it feels very much intertwined with it. I'm not sure how far windows is now with it, but I have a bunch custom stuff on so that I don't have to ever go through "metro" for anything at all. So yes as you said, options, but I question if booting directly to desktop saves you from "metro". If it does now with the windows updates, great. I'm just not to sure. Maybe someone can inform me.

Be honest. W7 vs W8 on a device with no touch capabilites. W7 all the way. I tried windows8 on a friend's laptop and hated it. It is confused... It doesn't know if it wants to be a tablet or a desktop OS. I hope M$ fixes it.

I felt like that at the beginning but after 3 days I got used to it. The UI change is almost like using a new OS like the few times I use mac OS, it seems confusing since I am used to windows. That being said, I win8 is a good OS, it just has a learning curve before one gets used to it.

Like how the keyboard pops up on the screen when you hit the search box, even though it's installed on a laptop. For some reason it doesn't recognize the built in keyboard but defaults to tablet mode with the on-screen keyboard until you actually start typing. No idea how they missed that.

i aggree with you my wife bought a surface and loves it, however I would not want the w8 experance on my desktop. She is ready for a phone upgrade and is concidering a windows phone , I will be suprised if whe gives up her fassion statement apple product

On a PC i always prefer win 7. Win 8 seems a bit complicated and not that user friendly but that may be because I have very less experience with it. But WP8 mobile OS really sucks. There are more than 100 things that an android phone but a windows phone cant. Trying playing an mkv file. To my surprise there's no way a windows phone can play the codec.

I can run it, I just don't want it to. There is problem when upgrading to 8.1 The touchscreen becomes disabled after the upgrade including the home button and various other problems.

SO miracles, you upgraded to 8.1 and it disabled the touchscreen? Sounds like a one off error, considering the entire OS is touch screen compatible. I take it you reinstalled windows 8. I find it hard to believe, but its software I have seen crazier things working in tech. I have 5 touchscreen devices with win8.1 and a nonstouchscreen 8.1, all worked without a hitch.

I'm not the only one with the problem....there are many others that are posting online with the same issue. So its must be the W8.1 upgrade. I doubt this is a problem on the manufactures' side.

Because W8.1 has a few little problems? When i first installed it my laptop would reboot with a blue screen of death when trying to play a game, or the fact that many people had issues with fastboot/adb commands on rooted phones myself included.

Mine just loses sound randomly. It's not program dependent and there isn't a volume slider that's turned down. It just happens randomly and usually a reboot will solve it, but not always. Didn't have this problem before the 8.1 update. The funny thing is, calling W8 the new Vista is an insult to Vista. There are things I could do with Vista that I can't accomplish with W8, like streaming a video from any site and watching it on my TV. With Vista I could stream any video and output it using the HDMI out. With W8, the HDMI output doesn't work in desktop mode, and the W8 or Metro interface can't playback many different streams. As far as usability, W8 feels like a step back compared to Vista. Just my experience though.

VZW, again that sounds dubious, because HDMI out in desktop is supported. What would be more credible than saying all 8.1 disables hdmi out via desktop mode, is saying what pc you have, and what device make/model/driver you are using for HDMI output.

HP dv6-7226nr laptop. Don't know the driver specifics, and this wasn't on 8.1, this was on 8. A popup came up saying that HDMI out wasn't supported in desktop mode. I assumed that meant that it wasn't natively supported in Windows8. It doesn't sound dubious that HDMI out is supported in some instances of Win8 but not others because of the driver? HDMI out should be as standard as USB.

Never had that problem with W8.1, my Samsung laptop can output through HDMI to my TV without problems.