Haaa Windows, both adored, much-maligned! a system I no longer understand, in every sense of the word!
I bought my stepfather approaching 60 years old, and already with windows xp / vista / 7 called me to know Bookmark, print, write an email ...
So I bought her windows 8, just to ease him daily (it seems).
The update of Windows to the new windows 8 is via DVD and costs 30 euros for 1 week, then finished promo operation you will have to pay 180 euros in it seems to me to buy this DVD .
For my part, the migration of Windows 7 to Windows 8 took about 1h30 with all reboots and we have not lost our software and our data (almost ...).
Not that Microsoft wanted to take everyone with his foot against completely redesigned interface, but ultimately what about spring?
Nothing to do with our famous windows of old, here, over taskbar, start menu more, more icon next to the time to check the status of antivirus, etc. wifi network Not everything disappears to make room for ....
... Squares! Yes, starting, you have boxes on your screen: a housing box (for access to e-mail), an internet explorer box, music box, video box, a windows box store etc ...
Like Windows store, there was not that way before! Well no, but now to have a pdf reader, to get an application, it is almost obligatory passage ...
We can add boxes of application functions, such as adobe reader I still have not managed to pair with my HP printer ... Once my pdf open it, I can just read them, "no software is able to receive the document "windows tells me when I go in the" menu "? (Top right explained below) Finally this is another story ...
Speaking of applications, have I said nothing lost, but still: Firefox for example, the preferred browser of my father-in which was stored her favorite, well when I click on the square firefox (which is obscure manipulations appeared after I did and I do not even remember me the substance of clicks strength and hacks), Windows 8 does nothing better than to make me land on the old Windows 7 desktop ( still containing all the icons before) and then start firefox like I was under seven ...
First reaction: cool! in case of incompatibility windows offers us a solution! quickly overtaken by reality: 1, the office is reduced by the taskbar (in case we wanted to stay on this old desktop rather than too much hassle on the new?), 2 why not trying to keep a consistent interface and launch the application seamlessly, rather than have us return to a faux windows 7, which is clamped anyway?
Concerning internet, where it is very strong: by launching Internet Explorer was an address bar, so if you know the website address to visit it going ... so I moved to my stepfather , through store windows, google, which it looks like a page with a search inset, so if this is to enter a site address that is copied, it's not ... But by google internet explorer ... If you want to download a file, do not google as the starting application, either because it does not work, or it does not show that it downloads and suddenly impossible to know where is the downloaded file .. .I do not know yet.
And for the favorites, forget the traditional Right click "mark this page" icon firefox or ie star (internet explorer) ... you have to right click to get a menu which appears below, click bookmark this page, then a window appears where you choose if you want to favorite (?!) or add it on the home page (an additional small square), and then you give it a name!
In short, I took all the favorites of my father that I turned into a small square, he is happy, and so he no longer goes through firefox and former office.
In the end, even if the idea is there, keyboard mouse user experience very limited version ...
- Windows 8 on non-touch PC is almost an aberration! so I can understand the logic of the system by touch, both with a mouse, it becomes daunting! One thing to remember: the corners!
* Lower left corner to return home
* Lower right corner to display the time, weather and a wallpaper
* Top left to move from one window to another
* Upper right to access the administration panel if there is one
Each cursor in a corner, a thumbnail appears in the same area, and it takes a little bit back the cursor and click on the thumbnail ... Not soon we made too backward and therefore to have to put the cursor in the corner on several occasions, a habit it seems ...
With time and some adjustments, Windows 8 will certainly practical but in the meantime we must whip hard to understand and get used to it.
I take the words of Bill Gates once: "if you can not do good, at least make it beautiful"