Welcome to Windows 8

[tonymadge]

Makes me think W8 is aimed at the same illiterate folk that watch X Factor

[TSR2]

When you logon, you're presented with this picture and you just have to draw the three shapes on the picture in the correct place and in the correct order and your sorted

Ben it seems a long way round and sounds stupid

Dunno, seems a lot easier than coming up with a password that's at least 8 characters long, has at least one capital letter, one special character and one number, and then remembering it for more than two consecutive log-ins like most systems I use do.

that's it Skip, its very unique. The only snag is its easy for someone standing on your shoulder to see what your doing, but a Trojan can't steel your password as you don't type it in. Quite clever really

[SkippyBing]

that's it Skip, its very unique. The only snag is its easy for someone standing on your shoulder to see what your doing, but a Trojan can't steel your password as you don't type it in. Quite clever really

It also occurred to me last night, if you're using it on a tablet it's easier to draw a pattern than use an on-screen keyboard to enter a password.

[ianhind]

I'm staying with Win7. I have a mix of WinXP (on VMs) and Win7 which suits me.

Why do I need to change? I tried the preview of Win8 and it was deleted within 10 minutes. Ok so I didn't give it a chance but why change for change's sake. Life's too short for some of us.

As for Ben's rationale:

I'm going to dive in because I need to stay current with this stuff for work

the company I work for are just installing Win7/Office2010 on our laptops so another reason not to bother spending even £15 on an upgrade for home.

But a release of Windows for £15!!! Not going to make much profit on that. And with Office2013 becoming "software as a service", ie you rent it, the whole Microsoft income flow is changing.

Ian

[TSR2]

Indeed Ian, its changing times. They've canned small business server too, with the new "equivalent" not having the exchange mail server included to encourage small business to go SaaS.

I'm not going to say people should move, Win7 is a great OS and does everything really well. My guess is Win8 will be, in effect an interim release as I cant see any business opting for it as retraining alone will cost an arm and a leg. Don't get me wrong, Win8 is growing on me, but its taken me 4 days of solid use to get this far and I work in IR. Business cant afford to have staff do that.

[Chris Sykes]

Indeed Ian, its changing times. They've canned small business server too, with the new "equivalent" not having the exchange mail server included to encourage small business to go SaaS.

I'm not going to say people should move, Win7 is a great OS and does everything really well. My guess is Win8 will be, in effect an interim release as I cant see any business opting for it as retraining alone will cost an arm and a leg. Don't get me wrong, Win8 is growing on me, but its taken me 4 days of solid use to get this far and I work in IR. Business cant afford to have staff do that.

Thats very true, here we are still on XP and office 2007, but im doing the training courses for 7, and ive had 7 since Beta. We spend £0 on training and going from XP to 8 would deffinatly be a problem for the ones who are technically illiterate!

[TSR2]

lol, I'll be honest mate, I was talking with a friend of mine yesterday (we have 40 years IT technical / business experience between us) and moving to Windows 8 is a learning curve for those who are technically literate

[Chris Sykes]

I bet it wouldnt be a learning curve but a rockface climb! We are talking about people who dont know what a tab or backspace button are for!

[emfrat]

I bet it wouldnt be a learning curve but a rockface climb! We are talking about people who dont know what a tab or backspace button are for!

Not to mention the ones who ask where the 'any' key is....

What really gets my goat is, that in these days of ISO standard documentation, every single document related to computer procedures has to be re-done just because Microsoft decided to call it 'Find' this time, instead of 'Search'

Glad I'm out of it!
MikeW

[airboatr]

What really gets my goat is, that in these days of ISO standard documentation, every single document related to computer procedures has to be re-done just because Microsoft decided to call it 'Find' this time, instead of 'Search'

Glad I'm out of it!
MikeW

I suppose peoples' excuse for not finding what their looking for will be

Windows Ate it. ©