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Originally Posted by John F
I use Win 7. I haven't needed a new PC, so I haven't upgraded to Win 8. Whenever I look at win 8 in the stores, I get a little lost. I can't seem to find the control panel, and I'm not sure how to start stuff. I used to go Start-> and start typing in "Search Program and Files" (for example type in "Remove Program"), and I was able to get around quickly; with Win 8 I'm not sure what to do or where to go.
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Correct. Even if we allow that the inclusion of both Metro and Desktop is good thing for the convergence of computing device types, the changes to the desktop are negative. They changed or removed proven, popular conventions for no good reason. The changes add nothing positive.
If Win8 is indeed faster and more secure than Win7 (Is it really? By what standards? How do you judge such a young, unproven OS as "more secure.") it is certainly not because they removed the Start button and obfuscated the program list. And since Win7 has proven neither particularly slow nor insecure in its now quite mature lifetime, I can't see anything positive about Win8 for a non-touch-screen device.