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Windows 8 was hated for the following reasons:
 
* Removal of the Start button, a feature since '''''[[Windows 95]]'''''
* Removal of the Classic theme, you could only get it back through screwing with DWM or some other nonsense
* Failed attempt to bring a tablet UI to the desktop
* Addition of heavy Telemetry (and where all of the invasive spyware fuckerymeasures really started)
* Forced updating for [[Windows 7]] users like with [[Windows 10]] where it smuggled itself through official Update channels and tried to completelysilently molestoverwrite your Windows install
* 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 &gt;Clickclick outside the dialog
* And if you thought the regular Metro apps were bad, &gt;No obvious way to exit the Fullscreen Metro apps
* And oh, Metro apps being harder to navigate than Win32 ones
* &gt;Forced sign-in to an online Microsoft account, so they could spy on you more effectively
* And if you thought the regular Metro apps were bad, &gt;No obvious way to exit the Fullscreen Metro apps
* &gt;Start screen (Although you can bring back the old Start menu with Open-Shell)
* &gt;Forced sign-in to an online Microsoft account, so they could spy on you more effectively
* &gt;Charms bar
* &gt;Useless both in practice and in concept, maybe for drooling tablet using retards
* File Explorer's new Ribbon being a confusing mess and a good example of bad UX design
* &gt;Start screen (Although you can bring back the old Start menu with Open-Shell)
* &gt;Charms bar
* &gt;File Explorer's new Ribbon
* &gt;Move your cursor to the bottom left to activate the Start screen!
* &gt;A whole slew of annoying "features" where you had to "Bounce your cursor around the screen to activate some retarded nonsense you don't care about!"
* Metro being a horrid idea in general
* NoMinimal realand UIflat design, lookskeep likein straightmind outthere ofwas PowerPointAero before this
* Not many metroMetro apps
* 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
* Better for tablets as well
* More metro apps
 
 
Windows 8.1 exists as a [[VM4|VM]] on [[CollabVM]].
 
== Windows 8.x Metro Apps ==
Apps that exist on Windows 8.x Metro:
 
* All of the default Windows 8 Metro apps
* Old versions of Chrome have a Windows 8 mode (22 to 48)
* MyTube