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[[File:Windows 8 Start Screen.png|thumb|Windows 8 start screen]] |
[[File:Windows 8 Start Screen.png|thumb|Windows 8 start screen]] |
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==Criticism== |
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Windows 8 was hated for the following reasons: |
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* Removal of the Start button, a feature since [[Windows 95]] |
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* Removal of the Classic theme, you could only get it back through screwing with DWM |
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* Failed attempt to bring a tablet UI to the desktop |
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* Addition of heavy Telemetry (and where all of the invasive spyware measures really started) |
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* Forced updating for [[Windows 7]] users like with [[Windows 10]] where it smuggled itself through official Update channels and tried to silently overwrite your Windows install |
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* Removal of the old Open With Win32 dialog and replaced with <code>OpenWith.exe</code>, a Metro/UWP based dialog where if you wanted to exit the dialog, you had to either press ESC or click outside the dialog |
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* No obvious way to exit the Fullscreen Metro apps |
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* Forced sign-in to an online Microsoft account |
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* Start screen (Although you can bring back the old Start menu with Open-Shell) |
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* Charms bar |
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* File Explorer's new Ribbon being a confusing mess and a good example of bad UX design |
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* Metro being a horrid idea in general |
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* Minimal and flat design, keep in mind there was Aero before this |
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* Not many Metro apps |
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* Wasn't good for desktops |
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Like with other Windows releases and their absolute clusterfuck of a feature-set, you could easily disable some of the things Windows 8 added, like you can remove the Ribbon with OldNewExplorer and you can remove almost all of the Metro garbage with some tool I forgot the name of. |
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=== Windows 8.1 === |
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Windows 8.1 was technically a service pack and a "major" update to Windows 8. It added: |
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* Start button |
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* More metro apps |
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But the criticism was still very much valid, and it still had the Metro UI. But even then there were some issues with it: |
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* There was a start button again, but it didn't remove the Start Screen |
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* Did nothing to remove the atrocious Metro UI and virtually no choice to get the old Windows UI back |
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* Still had just some of the same problems with the previous release |
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* You could only get the update through the Windows Store for a while and you couldn't even use official update channels to get it |
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* "Better for tablets", but not any better for desktops |
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* Introduced more bugs and yet more exploits(?) |
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Windows 8 was hated mainly because of the failed attempt to bring the tablet UI to the desktop. The UI design was heavily tailored towards tablets and smartphones, which resulted in cutting out features essential to desktop users such as the Start button, the Classic theme, and others. |
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There weren't many notable improvements with this one other than "bugfixes" and "performance improvements", and ''maybe'' some core changes? |
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It used to be [[VM4]] on CollabVM, but due to low activity, it was replaced with Windows 98 Second Edition. |
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Windows 8.1 exists as a [[VM4|VM]] on [[CollabVM]]. |
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Latest revision as of 21:44, 26 December 2024
Windows 8 is a desktop operating system by Microsoft introduced in 2012, which had a tablet UI. Its server counterpart is Windows Server 2012, which introduced Aero Lite and notably broken Wi-Fi support.
Windows 8 was hated mainly because of the failed attempt to bring the tablet UI to the desktop. The UI design was heavily tailored towards tablets and smartphones, which resulted in cutting out features essential to desktop users such as the Start button, the Classic theme, and others.
It used to be VM4 on CollabVM, but due to low activity, it was replaced with Windows 98 Second Edition.