Windows 8 or 7. Which would you choose?
Hi, all. My current Toshiba laptop is getting a little long in the tooth and runs WinXP3. I don't know much about the newer operating systems so I'd like to hear from any of you tech savvy folks about...
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JamesBr wrote:
Businesses do not run 8(8.1) due to stability and user learning curve. Plus its really a tablet OS they are trying to say is a great PC OS. However, when you have to load an app to get your desktop back, its clearly not a PC based OS. ...
The "tablet" part of the OS is OPTIONAL and accounts for maybe 5-10% of the total OS, the rest of the OS is definitely a desktop OS.
No apps need to be loaded to "get your desktop back" since the desktop was not removed, in Win 8 it requires a single mouse click or tap to get to the desktop, in Win 8.1 you can configure things to boot directly to the desktop.
What many install is a 3rd party program to restore the Start Menu since MS did remove that. I don't know why people are so hung up on the Start Menu and insist on adding 3rd party programs in order to get it back. Windows has quite a few alternatives to the Start Menu built-in so I don't find the need to restore it. In order to access your installed programs you could use desktop shortcuts, quicklaunch, pin to the taskbar, toolbars and the Start Screen. The Start Menu is simply redundant.
