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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 ~~fuckery~~measures really started) * Forced updating for [[Windows 7]] users like with [[Windows 10]] where it smuggled itself through official Update channels and tried to ~~completely~~silently ~~molest~~overwrite 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 ~~>Click~~click outside the dialog * ~~And if you thought the regular Metro apps were bad, >~~No obvious way to exit the Fullscreen Metro apps▼ * And oh, Metro apps being harder to navigate than Win32 ones * ~~>~~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, >No obvious way to exit the Fullscreen Metro apps * ~~>~~Start screen (Although you can bring back the old Start menu with Open-Shell)▼ ▲* >Forced sign-in to an online Microsoft account, so they could spy on you more effectively * ~~>~~Charms bar▼ * >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 ▲* >Start screen (Although you can bring back the old Start menu with Open-Shell) ▲* >Charms bar * >File Explorer's new Ribbon * >Move your cursor to the bottom left to activate the Start screen! * >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 ~~real~~and UIflat design, ~~looks~~keep ~~like~~in ~~straight~~mind ~~out~~there ofwas ~~PowerPoint~~Aero before this * Not many ~~metro~~Metro 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