I think 8.1 looks sweet. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/oPQe0csfmOQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
been on it for a month now. It's solid. Honestly I don't use a ton of the new features over Win8, but I don't have complaints either way
never understood that issue. You save a whole click...all 0.4 seconds it takes to look, move, and click on an icon. Hell, I put my work computer in "sleep" mode a ton, so I only actually have to click out of the tile mode maybe 2x/week
We all know Windows 8 was a huge disappointment. 8.1 was a bigger disappointment. It was almost a mockery to those who hated Windows 8. "Oh, you hate the live tiles and want your start menu and desktop back? Ok. We will just make it when you click the start menu, it will bring up the live tiles. Lulz!" That said, Windows 8 is not bad. Its more functional than the desktop. However, power uses do not want that crap. I typically have 20 windows and tabs open at once. Live Tiles makes that more difficult to manage those who multitask.
How can anyone use W8 in a corporate environment. We are looking to upgrade computers but are chained with W7 because W8 isn't compatible with our programs.
I use Win8 at work with the Classicshell Start Menu replacement software (Free, open source). I honestly forget that I'm using Win8. Back to topic, if MS keeps putting out incremental updates ala Apple, it's going to be a nightmare to keep up with for standardized companies and they will lose their corporate stronghold with a quickness.
That's doubtful. I work in a Fortune 500 company with 1,000's of applications and we have not found a single application yet that isn't compatible.
Same here. I'm in charge of software compatibility at UTMB and while we don't use thousands of apps, every one I've tested or had tested by other people all work if they worked in Win7. The bigger issue is IE10 compatibility. A lot of web-based apps just don't work in it.
I work in a corporate environment and windows 8 works great. Unless you're using some old ass version of JD Edwards lol. That and like someone else mentioned, the web apps and ie11 and 10. I'm enjoying 8.1 but I'm having a few problems with my wireless driver. Should probably clear up within time if Intel releases 8.1 drivers for my device
upgraded from windows 8 to 8.1 last night, and haven't has any issues. i just think it was pointless to add the start button that simply takes you back to the live tiles. my keyboard has a button with the same feature.
Going to try it out on the Surface Pro 2 next week. I didn't find too many issues with Windows 8, seems like Windows 8.1 will be much of the same with some improvements.
Been running 8.1 at work for the last several months. Have not had any issues and I think its a nice update from Win8. As others have said, if your app works in 7 it should run fine in 8.
If I pop in my windows 8 disc and put it back on my pc (using 7 right now)... will I lose everything I currently have set up?
Alright that sounds great. I had 8 when it first dropped but at the time I couldnt get it to accept certain hardware drivers, then my HDD died, so they sent me a new one that had Windows 7 on it and the Windows 8 disc to reinstall, so I decided to wait to upgrade it until they would fix the driver issues. I didnt hate it, i just needed to figure out where the folders were, but using one of the programs that makes it look like Windows 7 was terrific. It was pretty smooth, but otherwise it just wasn't ready for prime time.
Anybody using the read list app yet? It is pretty cool. Especially if you use it with the news apps and the sports app. Basically you can bookmark every article quickly and come back to it at a later time. The one really bad shortcoming to windows 8.1 is that microsoft doesn't allow you to backup your skydrive folder anybody with the file history settings. They need to get that back pronto and stop worrying about selling skydrive space. Also, I actually see the metro ui as another browser, in some ways a better browser than firefox. I mean you almost can do anything you want from the ui as you could do from a real browser. Google better watch their back because bing is nearly as good as google is right now and the metro ui is better than firefox and google chrome.
We use a unix emulator here as all of our programs run on legacy unix. Our emulator and certain features required of our program is limited by W8.
