Why you should choose Windows 7 and for all forget about Windows 8

You have already upgraded to Windows 8? On "Layfhakere" We have written extensively about this version of the OS. However, practice shows that most users did not get along with 8-Coy and prefer 7-ke.

Later - does not mean better

First, let's get one thing. Bill Gates once asked whether it uses Windows 8, to which he replied pointedly: "The higher, the more!" However, in practice it appears that this rule does not always work. Remember Windows Me - this "lover" blue screen of death - but still stuck on Windows 98. Then there was Windows Vista, which could not transfer files over the network at a reasonable speed; and all chose Windows XP. Now the fate of Windows 8: Is it worth upgrading to this version or better to stay on the same - 7-ke ?!

It should be noted that the history of Windows 8 is not the same as with Me or Vista. In the past there were problems with the stability and performance. Windows 8 fast and stable. Here the problem is not in its implementation, but rather in its design.

The interface is definitely good, but ...

In Windows 8, there are a lot of new functions and properties that may be of interest, as well as improved safety. But the bulk of them sharpened by the plates, not desktops. List the reasons why all the same it is not necessary to upgrade to Windows 8:

Metro UI: No, not heard!

In Microsoft apparently we believed that users no longer want to use your desktop. In doing so, they miscalculated. Not everyone likes a finger interface and metroshnye application. Yes, and why - if the usual counterparts in times more functional and more comfortable? But most do not have enough users, in addition to the favorite button «Start», - Windows 8 boot capabilities directly on the desktop, bypassing the starting touch screen interface.

Start screen disorients

Start screen creates an overload of cognitive perception and obscures the important content to the user. Does not paint a fancy interface and the lack of the usual "Start" button or fall out to the left, the right strange black panel Metro, single-window mode or the low density of information on screen. If you use many applications at the same time, your taskbar turns into a real dump. Life a little easier with the Metro UI by installing special alternative menus "Start"For Windows 8.

There is no single search

In the 7th version of Windows to locate the file or program is easy. In the search bar you need to score the title, or keywords, and the search results are displayed all the files and programs that are relevant to the request. At the same time they can be opened directly from the same box. In Windows 8 developers for some reason added one extra step. Default search searches only within the installed applications; if you want to search through all the files and programs will have to select the search area on your own. In addition, the search takes up the entire screen, thereby locking the access to the rest of the content.

Windows Store: ashes and despair

Windows Store - this is one big missed opportunity. In Windows 8, although it realized a convenient system of centralized installation and updating of software, but this applies only to the joy of the application, transferred to the sensory environment. The Windows Store is available desktop applications list, but this is only link to download them. That is, the store will not be engaged in their installation, updating and synchronization between devices.

Eccentric innovations in a desktop environment

Gone are not only a favorite button "Start", but also the opportunity to download Windows 8 directly into the desktop mode, bypassing the startup screen. Running the system each time a standstill due to the lock screen that appears after you boot the computer, when you log into the OS, or after the computer is in sleep. To turn it off, it is necessary to run the "Local Group Policy Editor" or the registry editor. And because of careless mouse movements to the left, then right spilling strange black panel that wildly distracting.

At this oddity does not end there. By clicking on the icon wi-fiRight falls weighty sidebar for network selection. And if you click on the sound icon will open a standard pop-up window. All this is somehow not in harmony.

Modern Metro-interface: fad or the future of operating systems?

There are those who do not like Windows 8. Others believe that in the future-oriented tablet interface. But will Microsoft and the desktop does remove all subsequent versions of Windows, leaving the user alone with the Metro-interface! However, not everyone can afford to give up the desktop. And, by the way, is why:

• In Metro-interface is not possible at the same time keep an open browser, and in the neighborhood notebook. Side-by-side application, unfortunately, not able to work.
• Weak support monitors with a large extension. A feeling that Windows 8 is developed exclusively for the PC 13-inch (1366 × 768).
• Maykrosoftovskih live in the ecosystem - thank you! Windows 8 - this is for those who use Bing, SkyDrive, Xbox Live (Music, Video). The fact that the user can use other services (other than those that provide Microsoft), - not taken into account.
• It's a closed platform. Metro-interface allows you to install only the applications that are allowed by Microsoft. What a one-sided! Imagine what would happen if in Windows XP can be used only as a browser Internet Explorer 6? At what stage of development, we have been today, yuzaya only him?
• Windows Store with its applications - this dislike. Even if Windows Store design would be the coolest in the world of it still continued to winnow dull. Number of in-store applications has increased. But the quality is more important than quantity, and the last had not been observed.

Windows 7, save our souls!

After the agony with Windows 8 transition Windows 7 and pleases the soul, and eyes - can feel the difference. 7-ka conducts a dialogue with the user, and does not accept his soulless doll, and he does not try to constantly sell something. Windows 7 may well pretend to be the new XP.

To Microsoft ought to better listen to their users. Desktops do not disappear. For advanced users, a finger on the interface to its functionality never surpass desktop, because it was originally based on the restrictions.

we have a lot of asked you did polls and do not stop to ask the question: Have you upgraded to Windows 8? If your impression of being asked out, describe them, and we will try together to determine: there is a future for the Windows 8 or crown still picks 7-ka?

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