I ran it during the beta in a virtual machine and it wasn't bad...I just didn't like the metro interface on my desktop. It would be great on my tablet...but not my desktop. You can revert the GUI to a Windows 7 style interface...
Eric -----Original Message----- From: Dana [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2013 12:11 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: OMG - windows 8 is going to cause me WINDOWS RAGE I've only touched it once but it was not a good experience. Only way I could find to get to the command line was to use search, and search itself wasn't easy to find. On Oct 5, 2013 8:17 PM, "Zaphod Beeblebrox" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm having a hard time figuring out how in the hell Windows 8 is any > kind of upgrade. I don't even have a windows 8 laptop, but it's > causing me enough grief without one. Tonight it was trying to figure > out why the default mail client doesn't act like a default mail client > so whenever you click on an email link in an app, you get a great > little message that says, "No default email client configured". Now, > really, wouldn't you think that a mail client installed by default on > the OS would, well, let's see...be a frickin default email client?! > > I remember going from Windows to Mac circa 2005 ish...sure I had to > relearn a lot of things. The difference was that the new ways were > usually simpler, i.e. uninstalling an app from a mac or even copying > one. So far, with Windows 8, most things that are different seem more > complicated, or at least not any easier which begs the question of why change it? > > There's got to be something I'm missing about this OS that's a > redeeming quality. But, so far, most of my interactions with it > usually end in frustration. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:367628 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
