• Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/14/2013)


    Win 7 is a great upgrade. I'm not sure Win 8 is compelling from 7. From XP, either one.

    For the most part, the only thing that I had to change moving from Win 7 to 8 is pressing the Windows key and typing the name of the app instead of pressing start and looking through menus.

    Other stuff is minor, though if you can move to a touch screen, 8 provides some nice improvements.

    I do acknowledge this point. When I moved from Windows XP on a 2ghz processor to a 300mhz processor running a 10yo distribution of Slackware, it was merely a matter of make config; make; make install repeated a few (dozen) times and a few bash tricks and I was up and running!

    Ok I jest LOL!!!! (I do like that bash prompt!)

    One hope I have with Windows 8 is that http://www.stardock.com/products will make the UI into something I like again. What I've seen so far with Start8 is awesome, and the list of what they're doing could really make Windows 8 a nice system. I'm surprised that these guys seem to be cranking all this out when Microsoft couldn't (or wouldn't).