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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. It exists as a [[VM4|VM]] on [[CollabVM]].
[[File:Windows 8 Start Screen.png|thumb|Windows 8 start screen]]
==Criticism==
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 spyware fuckery really started)
* Forced updating for [[Windows 7]] users like with [[Windows 10]] where it smuggled itself through official Update channels and tried to completely molest 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 outside the dialog
* And oh, Metro apps being harder to navigate than Win32 ones
* 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
* >Useless both in practice and in concept, maybe for drooling tablet using retards
* >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!" <!-- I forgot what they were called, excuse me. -->
* Metro being a horrid idea in general
* No real UI design, looks like straight out of PowerPoint
* Not many 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
But the criticism was still very much valid, and it still had the Metro UI. But even then there were some issues with it:
* There was a start button again, but it didn't remove the Start Screen
* Did nothing to remove the atrocious Metro UI and virtually no choice to get the old Windows UI back
* Still had just some of the same problems with the previous release
* 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
* "Better for tablets", but not any better for desktops
* Introduced more bugs and yet more exploits(?)
There weren't many notable improvements with this one other than "bugfixes" and "performance improvements", and ''maybe'' some core changes?
== 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
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