windows 8.1

8.1 is supposed to make your win 8 look and act like win7. Download it!

Make sure you download it from Microsoft. You can get "other things" from other download opportunities. After downloading, google how to boot up to the desktop.

We like it.

The best upgrade I've found for Windows 8 a trash can, then buy Windows 7 and install it.

IF you want it to operate like Windows 7, then use Windows 7 ...

I don't see the problem we win 8. There is a learning period just like anything new.

bcsdguy wrote:
8.1 is supposed to make your win 8 look and act like win7. Download it!

This is quite an overstatement, I think, maybe. It will allow you to always boot into the old desktop, and shut down by right clicking the new 'Start' button of W8.1. It mostly still looks like W8, but gives a few more options for finding where your programs are.

It IS worth getting.

I've been using 8.1 for a few weeks now and it is slightly better than 8. Everything I use is a basic Windows app so it runs on the desktop just like Win7. I have found the new start screen easier to use than what's in win 7.

I have made the background the same picture on the desktop and start screen so as I switch between the two environments (using either the windows key on the keyboard or the new start button at the lower left) the tiles seem to pop out of the picture, I select one and I'm back to the desktop.

Microsoft is offering this for free to Windows 8 users only. It is supposed to fix problems, make the interface look like Win 7 and stop the complaints that they are getting from so many. Soon they will just say, "Here is a copy of Win 7. We will just put this one on the shelf with Win ME and Vista."

dbbls wrote:
I don't see the problem we win 8. There is a learning period just like anything new.

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W 8.1 even better

I have been unhappy with Windows 8 and recently downloaded 8.1. There are some changes which are requiring a 'new' learning curve. I suspect some of us old 'IBMers' are just too left brained for Windows 8. Since it was originally designed for a touch screen (which I don't have) this may explain some if its quirks.

I do have a smart phone (Droid) and an iPad. I am not opposed to touch screen technology but with a laptop I reply on the keyboard primarily. I can't stand the new look of outlook and my email (Hotmail) is driving me nuts. I generally only read mail in the desktop mode and that helps BUT still #$%!@#$%.

Diann

burlmart wrote:

bcsdguy wrote:
8.1 is supposed to make your win 8 look and act like win7. Download it!

This is quite an overstatement, I think, maybe. It will allow you to always boot into the old desktop, and shut down by right clicking the new 'Start' button of W8.1. It mostly still looks like W8, but gives a few more options for finding where your programs are.

It IS worth getting.

Personally, I wouldn't use Win 8 or 8.1., especially without having a touch screen machine. Win 7 does everything I need and I will stay with it as long as it is available.JMO