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Vista wasn;t that bad. 90 percent of vistas problems were caused by hardware manufactures creating faulty drivers
Windows 8 UI is dropping the ?Start? button
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Windows 95 = bad
Windows 98 = bad
Windows 98 SE = good
And you forgot Windows 2000 after Millennium. It was one of the best, but got outdated quickly.
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Windows 2000 was released before Windows ME. Also generally speaking though their OS'es are usually in a Good (W3.1), Bad (W95), pattern and so forth with just 98/98SE messing up that pattern. I also used 2000 until almost XP SP2 (I believe, it was a long time ago) came out because I fried the computer running 2000. It was a good OS, ran fast and stable.
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It's not really a pattern if it isn't a consistently recurring theme. lol That's like saying that you shouldn't throw a baseball around your backyard because it shattered your kitchen window once or twice.
All in all, banking on Windows 8 being bad because of a "pattern" is kind of silly. Even Vista (which arguably had the weakest start of any Windows OS) recovered and became a fairly solid addition to the lineup. A bad OS here and there does not make a magical pattern and that pattern does not mean 8 is going to be trash.
Could 8 be bad? Sure. It might be. But the same can be said of any product before we have our hands on it. Until that day, though, the doom and gloom is kind of uncalled for.
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If it isn't obvious to you that the average Windows user accomplishes work, school, or light gaming on their computers, you're out of the loop. Quite frankly, I'll still use Windows 8, albeit not immediately after the launch. In my opinion, the day is bright and the sun on the horizon when we can see innovation such as the Metro UI. Are we power users? Hell yeah! However, is the average user? No, and that's who needs to have the easiest accessibility.
I agree with this. I don't feel that making the entrance into the OS more 'basic' means the OS itself can't have varying levels of complexity for advanced users. If you look at Win7, it's not difficult to work with, either.
I also feel that, if nothing else, easy accessibility to apps presumably means more interesting ways to utilize the interface, and add depth to the OS and new and more interesting ways to challenge programmers and developers to push out something even cooler than last time.
