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8.1 is amazing and these updates, like the task-bar metro icon for running apps, actually sound useful. You know Microsoft is still relevant when some unverifie

• dangero 13y ago
  In what way is Windows 8 amazing?
  • trentmb 13y ago
    I can't help but feel that no matter what I offer up as Windows 8 being amazing, you won't agree.
  • venomsnake 13y ago
    Resource usage, responsiveness. They did a lot of good under the hood work with it. Just metro ... make all the good will that would have been won go to waste.
    • userbinator 13y ago
      To do that, they've been removing features: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Win... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_7 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Win... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_Vista http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Win...
      • venomsnake 13y ago
        Probably the only real performance hog here is the Aero Glass and maybe backup. I doubt that the other have any meaningful impact.
    • mattgreenrocks 13y ago
      Two gripes: Task manager just sits there awkwardly before appearing. Event viewer takes like five seconds to even be usable. They worked fine in Win2k; why are they so slow now?
    • dangero 13y ago
      Yes I was so mad when Windows 8 came out because of Metro and I thought if they had just released something that looked like Windows 7 and said, "We made it leaner, we cut the boot time by 40%. Shutdown is faster too and we made over 200 smaller improvements to make things easier." I would have happily said, "Where do I buy?"