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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 bad Wi-Fi support
[[File:Windows 8 Start Screen.png|thumb|Windows 8 start screen]]
Windows 8 was hated for the following reasons:
* Removal of the Start button, a feature since
* Removal of the Classic theme, you could only get it back through screwing with DWM
* Failed attempt to bring a tablet UI to the desktop
* Addition of heavy Telemetry (and where all of the invasive spyware
* Forced updating for [[Windows 7]] users like with [[Windows 10]] where it smuggled itself through official Update channels and tried to
* 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
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▲* And if you thought the regular Metro apps were bad, >No obvious way to exit the Fullscreen Metro apps
▲* >Forced sign-in to an online Microsoft account, so they could spy on you more effectively
* File Explorer's new Ribbon being a confusing mess and a good example of bad UX design
▲* >Start screen (Although you can bring back the old Start menu with Open-Shell)
▲* >Charms bar
* Metro being a horrid idea in general
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* Not many
* Wasn't good for desktops
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.
=== Windows 8.1 ===
Windows 8.1 was technically a service pack and a "major" update to Windows 8. It added:
* Start button
* More metro apps
There weren't many notable improvements with this one other than "bugfixes" and "performance improvements", and ''maybe'' some core changes?
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