Thursday, 31 March 2016

Stop mocking Windows 8 – it’s better than 7 and 10

I really didn’t want to join the Windows 10 debate, but I do want to speak up against the continuous ridiculing of Windows 8. Having progressed through Windows 95, 98/98SE and XP, and having laboured through punch-card computers from the Seventies, I can speak from some experience.

With trepidation, two years ago, I bought a 15in Windows 8.1 laptop with a screen full of the operating system’s ‘charms’. With a few tweaks I ditched all the ‘charms’ except those I needed, added my most used programs to the taskbar, and gave myself a fantastic desktop. It took about half a day, and has been running faultlessly ever since. Booting in six seconds, it has a super-quick Start screen with access

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