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Title: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: TrailMyx on December 04, 2012, 02:19:24 PM
I tried out the free trial and just hated it.  It was way too much of a radical change that seemed to be more clunky.  Kinda reminded me of the decision of the Linux release of Gnome 3. 

So anyone actually using this on their main desktop/laptop instead of a tablet?

For me, if they don't officially release a Win7 compatibility mode, I simply will ride the Win7 horse until it drops dead.

What the heck is going on with these companies that seem to know better how we should use our computers?  It's a little bit too big brother for me.

At least with Linux, I could fall back on XFCE.  Wow, Windows 8 sucks!
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: manwinc on December 04, 2012, 02:57:28 PM
Yeah, too big of a change in the windows line. Wtf is my start bar....... I have it on my new desktop, but I'm just tolerating it for now.
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: bendel on December 05, 2012, 12:52:43 AM
They tried to make an beautiful "User friendly" interface for social network...  Who is interested in a DOS box yet? ITS UGLY !
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: Crome969 on December 05, 2012, 10:01:04 AM
I installed it on a Virtual Maschine to test compatibility of our Company Software.
As long as its possible i will skip Windows 8 personaly;)
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: Endless Night on December 05, 2012, 04:03:54 PM
Im still on XP .. and it took a crowbar to get me off win2000....  I will use it when i have to .. more than likely I'll just switch to whatever version of linex is current when im finially forced off xp.

IMHO each successive version is more bloated than the last, thiers only significant benifit increases every few versions....  new win OS = new cutting edge computer to run it, to get about the same speed you had on your 5year old box on the old os.

Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: UOMaddog on December 05, 2012, 04:57:22 PM
As a PC junkie for over a decade, it is my firm belief that Windows 7 is by far the best OS Microsoft has ever released. Adding a "touch-friendly" interface on top of W7 is just stupid. I understand the need to blend desktop and mobile, but W8 is not the answer. Try again Microsoft, let me know when W9 comes out!
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: Masscre on December 05, 2012, 06:12:02 PM
Im still on XP .. and it took a crowbar to get me off win2000....  I will use it when i have to .. more than likely I'll just switch to whatever version of linex is current when im finially forced off xp.

IMHO each successive version is more bloated than the last, thiers only significant benifit increases every few versions....  new win OS = new cutting edge computer to run it, to get about the same speed you had on your 5year old box on the old os.



I also am still using Win XP. I completely agree about over bloating the software. My personal belief was that vista was ME with a face lift :)
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: Crome969 on December 05, 2012, 08:44:31 PM
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: manwinc on December 06, 2012, 06:27:08 PM
If you are a truly avid scripter and are running multiple clients I'd highly suggest windows 7. It has the Ability to pixel scan across multiple maximized clients.
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: Alpha on December 06, 2012, 06:30:41 PM
How do you do that Manwinc?  Ive always just positioned stuff so the scanned location isnt covered.
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: Crome969 on December 06, 2012, 07:46:14 PM
If you are a truly avid scripter and are running multiple clients I'd highly suggest windows 7. It has the Ability to pixel scan across multiple maximized clients.
If you are good enough to setup a server you could run multiple user logins with uo each running.If you have good CPU\RAM you could run a lot of virtual systems with 500 MB each ...
If you run stealth you could simple ignore ocr. No need anymore and could run multiple Accounts without starting client...
The Ways are infinite....
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: manwinc on December 06, 2012, 08:21:16 PM
I should probably start migrating over. Maybe when I start programming classes In the spring. I'm just too Proficient at Coding in EUO to start learning a new language to do the same thing if that makes any sense.

In Windows 7, there are some Personalized Settings that let you view multiple instances of the same program running when you position your cursor over it on your start bar. I'm looking right now through remote desktop to find out what the settings are.

Control Panel > Appearance and Personalize > Personalization

Its actually just the Windows 7 "Theme"

So long as a window isn't minimized, you can pixel scan it, No matter what's on top of it. Netflix, Scriptuo, another game/Instance. Its Insanely handy, if it weren't for this feature, i'd still be using XP. Mind you the CPU cost for Pixel scanning is very costly. I can run 80 Minimized clients on my Comp if they are minimized. I can only run about 20 if they are maximized.

Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: Khameleon on January 15, 2013, 06:30:47 PM
Wow... I can't believe I wasted someone else's money to buy this horse *bleep* of an operating system....

it looks like if you want a Windows 7 Clone you have to buy an App...
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: TrailMyx on January 15, 2013, 06:36:43 PM
My new rig has a spiffy new copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.  Take that other sucky operating systems!

Just take a look at the review on Amazon for Windows 8.  Someone said the OS is misnamed and should be renamed to "Tiles 1.0"  lol
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: Khameleon on January 15, 2013, 06:46:54 PM
it looks like a PC version of an IPOD/IPAD/IPhone... very disappointed by Microsoft...
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: KaliOfLS on January 15, 2013, 07:07:08 PM
Windows ME ftw!



...?  :-\



j/k
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: TrailMyx on January 15, 2013, 07:07:21 PM
I don't know what these companies are thinking.  First my rant was with Gnome3, but then Microsoft comes out and creates what many people are calling the worst blunder in OSes since Windows ME or Vista.  

Haven't seen you for a while, Kham. 
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: Crome969 on January 15, 2013, 11:27:07 PM
yey Kham is back? Happy new Year :)...

As i said before, as User it takes a lot to get used to new design and kind of setting. Saving personal Data also isnt good as some people may think. But from Developer side this offers a wide span of new possibilities in the Application Business..

@ Kaliofs : I personal hated ME. 98 were good , XP also after a few patchs, 7 were first OS i thought about to really buy it myself.
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: KaliOfLS on January 16, 2013, 04:48:46 AM
@ Kaliofs : I personal hated ME. 98 were good , XP also after a few patchs, 7 were first OS i thought about to really buy it myself.

I was playin at sarcasm.  I bought my first (and only pre assembled computer) when I was 16 and in high school.  It just so happens, I was an unfortunate soul who bought a computer during that short time between 98 and XP D:  ME was terrible.  It was a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death for those who don't know) machine.  BSOD every other day.  I didn't have access, at that age, or the know how to get another OS without buying it, and I didn't have the money.  It made XP look like the best OS ever!  Which is is really good, IMO.  I liked XP, I like windows 7. 

I have a second partition on this computer of Ubuntu, but I'm really just learning, and don't have another windows 7 key to toy around with virtual box to see if I could handle ubuntu as my main OS.
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: Endless Night on January 16, 2013, 05:18:19 AM
Windows 2.0beta  for the win....


I wonder if i still have a set of those floppys around.
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: ximan on January 16, 2013, 09:55:38 AM
I don't know what these companies are thinking.  First my rant was with Gnome3, but then Microsoft comes out and creates what many people are calling the worst blunder in OSes since Windows ME or Vista

MS is trying to do all the wrong things with this OS.  Picked up a Sony VAIO Tap 20 for my wife and daughter over xmas to replace her aging laptop. HW shortfalls aside (should support 1920x1080, have HDMI in, an eSATA port, more RAM), the idea of the thing would be great, except for Winblows 8.  This doesn't deter my wife; she's happy because she can lug the thing all over the house sans keyboard/mouse and my three year old can now operate a lot of things autonomously thanks to the touch screen (not being much of a precision mouse driver yet).

However, in the name of unifying their 'user experience' across platforms, they've shot themselves in the foot in the only market where they maintain dominance, the desktop pc.  If anything, Windows 8 is 'inside out'; all the touch crap should be an alternative gui mode invoked by swiping on a touch screen, otherwise out of sight. Their glorious tiled main desktop should be, well, just another app.  Touch/gesture interpretation and feedback settings should be available for all apps and users (perhaps this is the case however I haven't found any low level tweaks).  Meanwhile the tablet market is owned by ios and android, same with smartphones and MS goes and alienates their last remaining user base (ignoring the xbox for the moment).  Brilliant.

The most irritating things to get past was figuring out the modal side menu, originally finding how to bring up the desktop with a mouse when in a modal app, and adding a shortcut to the 'legacy' desktop for the start/programs directory (since there is no longer a friggin' start menu).  The thing I still don't like is having to figure out how to set/force each app to behave like a normal desktop app and not go all full-screen/modal/touchscreen retard.  And the 'clean' touch interface causes lots of other useless activity in the way of extra clicking in order to get at buried options in dialogs.  Was all this fluff really necessary just to get rid of the awful legacy visual control styles they adopted way back when?  While touch support is great to have for hardware that supports it, the rest of the gui was just a poor excuse to move up a version number.  I won't be putting Win 8 on anything else around here unless 7 disappears.

Why was this (and the Surface) such a bad idea by MS, aside from the fact that no one needs 20" diagonal file save dialog? Because hardware prices are falling off a cliff.  I could have bought several Android tablets (http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/15/hardware-is-dead/) for the price of a single copy of W8.  Basically their model for OS revenue is gone (http://www.zdnet.com/analyzing-the-windows-8-sales-numbers-chicken-meet-egg-7000009897/); they've been discounting Windows 8 Pro upgrades (http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/windows-8-pro-costs-40-if-youre-running-xp-vista-858859) to try to boost adoption in face of this. Surface directly competes with other tablet manufacturers, rots o' ruck that they'll willingly adopt 8.  With all that in mind, I suspect fewer developers are going to look at this as their primary target platform.  More will look to things like Unity to get away from platform lock-in, I know I am.
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: TrailMyx on January 16, 2013, 11:31:08 AM
Windows 2.0beta  for the win....


I wonder if i still have a set of those floppys around.

I just ran across my Windows 3.1 floppies.  I remember loading that on a modern system a few years back.  Booted in around a second.  It was telling about how bad code bloat has become.
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: KaliOfLS on January 16, 2013, 11:43:57 AM
 I won't be putting Win 8 on anything else around here unless 7 disappears.

Ditto.  You've more experience than I have with it, but it sounds absolutely terrible.

More will look to things like Unity to get away from platform lock-in, I know I am.

Ubuntu has come a long way way since my first go round with it.  Enabling the update as you install option, and it pretty much installs more ready to go than a windows platform.  I didn't like the 'unity' very much, but I've been able to hide it and use it the way I've always thought.  Had I another Windows 7 key, I'd test out virtual machine and see if I can run VM and play the games I like to play through it.   Hell, even at that rate, if we are in some event, forced to go windows 8, at least the table style, own your desktop without multitasking is just another application running inside the OS.  My only concern is the lack of policing of user supplied repositories.  However, I've never had a problem, but it is conceivable that a user could hide incredibly malicious software inside of one.  I hear that linux is working on a virus scanner though, so that's exciting.
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: Paulonius on January 16, 2013, 12:50:39 PM
The play is supposed to be creating an OS that allows developing desktop and mobile a single platform shared code product. Has anyone poked around at this functionality? 
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: ximan on January 16, 2013, 02:33:52 PM
More will look to things like Unity to get away from platform lock-in, I know I am.
Ubuntu has come a long way way since my first go round with it.  Enabling the update as you install option, and it pretty much installs more ready to go than a windows platform.  I didn't like the 'unity' very much, but I've been able to hide it and use it the way I've always thought...
My bad, I was referring to Unity gaming engine (http://unity3d.com/), which is a cross-platform application/gaming api, not the Ubuntu window manager thingie.  These guys that abstract away all of the MS/Apple/Google specific crap of dealing with a UI, they're the future of app development in my mind.

The play is supposed to be creating an OS that allows developing desktop and mobile a single platform shared code product. Has anyone poked around at this functionality?
Haven't heard of it, would like to check it out. URL?
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: Endless Night on January 21, 2013, 08:28:48 AM
Windows 2.0beta  for the win....


I wonder if i still have a set of those floppys around.

I just ran across my Windows 3.1 floppies.  I remember loading that on a modern system a few years back.  Booted in around a second.  It was telling about how bad code bloat has become.

This is why on my personal machines i tend to stay 1-2 versions behind the latest.  So that my nice new fast hardward doesnt slow down to old hardward levels...


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`

Its hard to compete with Free..... Linex Free , Andriod Free...

If i was microsoft I would have realesed a free Tablet/Mobile OS just to gain market share and get manufacuters on board.  Even better would be a OS that would run 100% on existing andriod platforms and provide a nice slick way to switch from andriod to WIN ?? OS, and add in lots of free apps word, etc to encourange the switch.

They should also be releasing andriod/ios table version of word office etc to milk thier existing reputation before others steal that market from underneath then. Of course they would have to swallow the new pricing method/reality  as well .. no one is going to pay hundreds of $ for a andriod version of word

I would have also pushed the desktop platform forward for the powerusers, gamers, architects, designers, engineers, coporate etc.  Who are basically the only people will continue to purchase desktop or laptop PCs... everyone else from now on in is purchaseing a tablet of one form or another... which are nice and cheap becuase of no massive OS charges.


But its hard to accept the end of a gravy train...  lets milk the cash cow one more time lads... :)




Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: Neo on February 21, 2013, 04:33:53 PM
I have been using Windows 8 for a little over a month now and I'm actually enjoying it so far.

At first I was like: "AAAaAAArrrghHhHhHh"

And then I was like: "uuuUUuUughhhHh"

But after that it started growing on me and now I actually prefer it over Windows 7 (at least up until now).

I found it actually boots a LOT faster than Windows 7, which is nice.

Overall performance has also been better for me compared to Windows 7 ultimate.

Oh, and I don't actually use the tablet OS thingy in general, I just click on the desktop as soon as it boots and use it as if it were Windows 7. The only difference is that I use that weird new start menu for all my shortcuts that would have been on the desktop, so now I have a neat desktop and can access everything that would be filling my desktop on Windows 7, by clicking on the left-bottom corner start menu.

I haven't gone crazy exploring it and trying to brake it yet, but I think it's worth giving it a shot! :)
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: manwinc on February 21, 2013, 04:38:15 PM
I now am running it on 3 computers, and while I do still prefer windows 7 over windows 8, its starting to grow on me.... Its kind of like beating a really cool game and doing all the side quests, then they come out with the second one and change everything... At first you almost refuse to play it, but slowly it grows on you.
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: Khameleon on February 21, 2013, 04:41:00 PM
I wish I didn't buy it for this pc.. its alright I guess.. But I downloaded this program that gives me my start bar back.... without the start bar I was going crazy. I like a clean desktop.
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: selam on April 06, 2013, 03:07:19 AM
I recently got a new gaming pc. Although I wanted Windows 7.. I got good ol' 8. Honestly At first Windows 8 sucks, confusing for me atleast. Then I Downloaded Classic Shell which is a program that basically makes everything revert back to Windows 7 style. You can still swap in between the 2 platforms. Which is useful for some people. The one thing i do enjoy about Windows 8 is its 15 seconds from the time you press the On button till your desktop is loaded. I considered having a dual boot for windows 7 just incase I would have any compatibility issues in the future but i decided not too and I've yet to have any problems (6 months going strong), solid software for me so far. Change is hard.. but sometimes its worth it.

I've included the link for Classic Shell incase anyone wants to check it out. I've used since day 1 of booting my new computer. I can't say for sure its the best program for making you're Win8 look like Win7 but it's worked very well for me :D

http://www.classicshell.net/
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: TrailMyx on April 06, 2013, 09:58:59 AM
Yes, it seems to me that classic shell has saved several windows boxes from being launch from the top of buildings to their crunchy deaths.
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: SolidSnake on April 06, 2013, 04:38:09 PM
I have been using W8 Pro for quite some time now. Honestly, I no longer have a machine running anything else right now. As several have mentioned, it does grow on you. If I want W7, and you do need it from time to time, the desktop mode works very well. The thing that has become quite an issue (good issue) for me is when I am swiping and taping on the one monitor left that is not touch. Comical and I end up swearing at myself. I really need to swap that out for a touch screen. You get used to that part of w8 really quick. For kids..it is unparrelled awesomeness. The grandchild is absolutely amazing with it.

The Surface Pro 128 has become my favorite machine. Unlimited Data 4g / LTE and pdanet on cell phone means I can do pretty much anything..anywhere I have service on the phone. Since TMobile partners with ATT for towers, that is a VERY large area..even when camping in the woods.

Just my 2 cents worth.
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: TrailMyx on May 05, 2013, 09:23:49 PM
I believe Microsoft may have gotten the message:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/04/16/microsoft-backing-off-metro-plans-boot-to-desktop-mode-for-windows-81

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Desktop-Windows-8.1-Modern-UI-Windows-Blue-twinui.dll,22033.html
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: Bookwyrm on May 10, 2013, 11:03:16 PM
I see this as turning out like the transition from XP to Vista. Win 7 users will hold out until Win 9 comes out (in which they fix all the crap they did wrong in 8).
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: Masscre on June 30, 2013, 05:04:18 AM
Ok. I just made the plunge into a new system that Had Win8 included. I am using it. It has a [size=350pt]BIG[/size] learning Curve. I mean BIG. But anyways I am running as Admin but can not get EasyUO to see my Client. Anyone run into this? Help?
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: manwinc on June 30, 2013, 05:26:33 PM
No, i haven't seen that issue with windows 8 Yet and I run it on 4 Computers.
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: TrailMyx on July 01, 2013, 12:40:56 PM
Did you get it figured out yet, Mass?
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: Masscre on July 01, 2013, 04:25:42 PM
That I did. You have to run EasyUO as a file with admin rights.  Win8 has just about everything in a different place or hidden or maybe MicroShaft even lost it :). But the more time I spend with it the more I am learning. It is actually a great OS for someone with little to no computer experience. What I mean by this is Everything is super hidden and protected so you can not do something you really did not intend to do unless by pure accident. I just have not figured out how to close all these damn apps and other program I have open. Also still looking for a good way to back into web pages. It is like relearning how to tie your shoes but with your arms on backwards :). But to its credit they  have a good thing just rolled it out way wrong. It should have been more intuitive. But hey for someone that has never used a computer they would not know where the start button was anyway :)
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: TrailMyx on July 01, 2013, 04:32:22 PM
Hopefully 8.1 will bring a bit more of that technical tinkering back to the OS.  See, this is the world that Apple built. And it sucketh because everyone wants to cater to the lowest IQ individuals in the same way that's made Apple so popular. (YES, I WENT THERE...)  ;)
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: manwinc on July 05, 2013, 11:44:33 PM
Honestly, after using it for several months now on multiple machines, I'll trade the Old start bar for Windows 8 Search Feature any day of the week.

If I forget which Script I Had a certain "Sub" in, it will find it for me in the blink of an eye.
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: ximan on July 22, 2013, 05:55:13 AM
Honestly, after using it for several months now on multiple machines, I'll trade the Old start bar for Windows 8 Search Feature any day of the week.

If I forget which Script I Had a certain "Sub" in, it will find it for me in the blink of an eye.

Grepwin, baregrep, findstr  ...  one or more of those usually running on any desktop I've got open.  Organization is not my forte!
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: Crisis on July 25, 2013, 01:12:42 PM
I like Win 7 and don't have a touch screen so I am sticking with Win 7. I might make the plunge if I get a touch screen.
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: manwinc on August 15, 2013, 04:00:02 PM
SO, I got this pesky little Virus on my Laptop From a browser plugin. (Something to do with a WinRAR download). Couldn't get rid of the Freaking thing, Finally I just type in Factory Reset into search on my windows 8 laptop, BAM 2 Hours later. Reformatted Computer without having to lift a finger.


I love windows 8 now.
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: Crisis on April 06, 2014, 07:36:17 AM
/necro

I just built a new desktop and decided to go with win 8.1 and so far I am liking it. It takes some getting use to at first but the more I look around and find things, the more I am liking it.
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: TrailMyx on August 31, 2014, 12:40:20 PM
OMG, what are you guys thinking?!?!?

Well, what was I thinking as well.  I decided to give 8.1 a shot on my new AMD A-series build.  Dear God, what a disaster Win8 is!  Now I remember why I hated it so much before, plus a bunch of new hatred that's developed.  The "desktop" integration feels like a panicked attempt to solve a much larger problem.  The fact that the start menu reverts back to the tiles for selection is just horrible.

It's pretty fast though on my SSD, but I'm afraid that the blood oosing from my bloodied head wound is going to contaminate the drive from booting again.  I can really see how Microsoft has nearly single-handedly killed off the PC market.

I dual-booted with Fedora 20, and I'm probably going to live inside that OS using Mate.  Linux has it's own problems with Gnome 3 (slightly more usable than Windows 8.1).  Thank goodness for the Mate project for Linux!

I only need windows because I wanted to have access to my SiliconDust HomeRun Prime 3-tuner CableCard and it requires Media Center to decrypt the copy-once channels (thanks for nothing Cox Communications!)

So Windows 8.1 is still horrible.
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: gimlet on August 31, 2014, 01:03:49 PM
I put back on windows 7 on all my machines
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: TrailMyx on August 31, 2014, 03:11:26 PM
Man I need to do that too!   Win 8.1 pro still requires you to spend another $10 to enable Media Center.   What a horrible experience.  I can't wait to review it on Amazon..
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: Boydon on September 01, 2014, 04:26:11 AM
Windows 9 is rumored to be announced by the end of September: maybe it will be better...
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: gimlet on September 01, 2014, 06:37:38 AM
Windows 9 is rumored to be announced by the end of September: maybe it will be better...
The "odd" versions have always been much better historically than the even!
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: TrailMyx on September 01, 2014, 10:04:26 AM
Windows 9 is rumored to be announced by the end of September: maybe it will be better...

Like Gimlet said, there is hope that the upcoming version will be better.  Honestly, it's like they have 2 different dev teams.  The first one designs the sucky versions.  They must take those devs and lock them up in the Microsoft Evil Tower for "re-programming" and hand-off the disaster to the second team who must clean it up.  Win8 and the usability "bumper sticker" for 8.1 are just horrible.  Man, I can't understand how this POS got through their focus groups.  Technically it seems to be OK and works pretty well, but my goodness what a stinky pile of crap from the usability end of things.

BTW:

http://www.microsoft.com/OEM/en/licensing/sblicensing/Pages/downgrade_rights.aspx#fbid=Bt2Y970cE__
Title: Re: Has anyone upgraded to Windows 8 yet?
Post by: Sardorn on November 19, 2014, 06:37:34 AM
Ok. I just made the plunge into a new system that Had Win8 included. I am using it. It has a [size=350pt]BIG[/size] learning Curve. I mean BIG. But anyways I am running as Admin but can not get EasyUO to see my Client. Anyone run into this? Help?

I've had a similar issue with Win8.1 and curious if anyone has any help...Lost my big bad gaming machine due to a drop of water (literally a drop...one single freaking drop!) and since I'm not a builder or programer I'm pretty much stuck with whatever I can afford from Dell, this time some crappy little tower with just enough umph to run my household programs as well as 1 or 2 selected games so as to keep me from going completely insane and turning into some Facebook game junky like my wife. To add insult to injury, I had to go with the cheaper tower which had 8.1 since they're charging more for anything with 7 now.
After a lot of cussing and swearing, googling, trial and error, questions here and there, I was finally able to get UO to run, yay! Fired up Easy UO and hopped on my miner, my favorite script being Cyberpopes Mining radar. As I'm not to the level of script writing to combine all my scripts I have a total of 4 that I run..my beetle smelter, my blackrock dropper and my ingot/gem organizer along with the radar. The only one that will not work is the Mining Radar. It will run but I do not get the window with the mining "squares". Any Windows 8.1 experts who ran into this and were able to fix it due to their immense programing prowess?

Details:
Windows 8.1
Running most recent version of EasyUO compatible with current patch
Ran as Admin initially, everything but Radar works
Tried also compatibility mode for XP and 7
Ran above directly from the installed file as well as from the desktop shortcut (yeah, sounds dumb but was grasping at straws)

Help?