What's so great about Windows 8?

[DrCheese]

^ This is true I have to set our library defaults in our default user profile (i remove the c:\public stuff) but you can't change these on the fly due to the above.

[gshaw]

It's quick, especially on slower laptops where you notice the performance benefits

The bootloader for dual boot looks pretty but reboots the machine to switch to the secondary OS

 

Just got a new work laptop and felt the need to install Win8 onto it, think the Stockholm Syndrome has set in I could live with the Start Screen if I could make one UI tweak, which one day I will get around to Photoshopping...

[CAM]

Windows 8 is best described as excellent under the hood with a front-end smacking of user-hostile ignorance on MS' part and their poor efforts to jump on the "got to have an app store" bandwagon. I don't think I have ever felt so torn between love and hate for any Operating System like this.

 

I'd rate it as near perfect if the UI was more like the Windows 8 Task Manager and less like Metro-land.

[AJWhite1970]

Love the speed of the new OS, in a like for like benchmark between Windows 7 and Windows 8 on the same hardware it flies but and it's a very big but at the moment, absolutely hate the front end and it's a million new reg keys and gpo settings to learn before it goes out on the network.

 

At present, 2013-14 will remain on Win7/O2K10 and 2014-15 may be Win8SP2/O2K1x

 

Andrew

[Michael]

Windows Blue is supposed to be released towards the end of the year. It'll be a free update to Win 8 users. Sounds like a Service Pack no? Maybe they'll at least allow admins to turn the Start Menu back on.

[LosOjos]

Windows Blue is supposed to be released towards the end of the year. It'll be a free update to Win 8 users. Sounds like a Service Pack no? Maybe they'll at least allow admins to turn the Start Menu back on.

 

Or they'll find a way of blocking it entirely!