ArishMell · 70-79, M
Don't see it should not be despite Microsoft's planned short-term obsolescence of its operating systems.
Ensure you install a good security system and keep it up-dated, though, because MS' intention is to leave your computer unprotected after some arbitrary date, for sales not technical reasons.
I bought my computer a few years ago when MS had just introduced WIN8, but though WIN 8 had been installed by the manufacturer (Dell), the dealer converted it to WIN 7 pro for me.
He was an independant computer specialist. I would not buy from one of the supermarket-style chain domestic-electronics shops staffed by people whom I do not trust to understand the products more than I do, nor to accommodate cutomers' wishes.
The dealer told me these:
WIN 8 was planned to suit very small tablet and portable-'phone screens, where symbols are more legible than words.
Functionally, there are no significant differences between W7 and W8.
Thirdly, that that he had converted many computers already loaded with WIN8 to 7, for people who dislike 8's appearance and want to use the instrument for far more than social chats and entertainments. As I do: MicrosoftWord and Excel, Access for a while, some non-MS photo-editing and CAD programmes; and libraries of data files going back many years. (I do not use my PC as a substitute TV, nor use Facebook.)
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{A couple of years later I fell for MS persuading me to ugrade, sorry, up-date, my system to WIN-10, for free. I was very careful to use the discreet little "Custom Install", not the glaring "FULL INSTALL" option. The rubric warned the latter gives MS full surveillance hence exploitation rights over you.
Even so, it was a disaster. W10 proved as clumsy to use as its gimmicky presentation suggested, it wiped out my several web-site registrations, and I feared it may be incapable of running my older software and data. I took the company's offer to revert it to W7.
Having used MS since its MS-DOS days, I consider its big break-through came with technical developments allowing W5's greatly improved file-handling and more powerful programmes; its zenith was XP and 7, but MS has now run out of ideas and is going down-hill. Unfortunately its stranglehold on the Internet, hence near-universality of application and OS software, is an absolute gift to the increasingly sophisticated and ruthless state and criminal hackers.
I gather MS is developing a "WIN-12". No 11? God help us. The hackers won't be far behind in analysing it.}
Ensure you install a good security system and keep it up-dated, though, because MS' intention is to leave your computer unprotected after some arbitrary date, for sales not technical reasons.
I bought my computer a few years ago when MS had just introduced WIN8, but though WIN 8 had been installed by the manufacturer (Dell), the dealer converted it to WIN 7 pro for me.
He was an independant computer specialist. I would not buy from one of the supermarket-style chain domestic-electronics shops staffed by people whom I do not trust to understand the products more than I do, nor to accommodate cutomers' wishes.
The dealer told me these:
WIN 8 was planned to suit very small tablet and portable-'phone screens, where symbols are more legible than words.
Functionally, there are no significant differences between W7 and W8.
Thirdly, that that he had converted many computers already loaded with WIN8 to 7, for people who dislike 8's appearance and want to use the instrument for far more than social chats and entertainments. As I do: MicrosoftWord and Excel, Access for a while, some non-MS photo-editing and CAD programmes; and libraries of data files going back many years. (I do not use my PC as a substitute TV, nor use Facebook.)
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{A couple of years later I fell for MS persuading me to ugrade, sorry, up-date, my system to WIN-10, for free. I was very careful to use the discreet little "Custom Install", not the glaring "FULL INSTALL" option. The rubric warned the latter gives MS full surveillance hence exploitation rights over you.
Even so, it was a disaster. W10 proved as clumsy to use as its gimmicky presentation suggested, it wiped out my several web-site registrations, and I feared it may be incapable of running my older software and data. I took the company's offer to revert it to W7.
Having used MS since its MS-DOS days, I consider its big break-through came with technical developments allowing W5's greatly improved file-handling and more powerful programmes; its zenith was XP and 7, but MS has now run out of ideas and is going down-hill. Unfortunately its stranglehold on the Internet, hence near-universality of application and OS software, is an absolute gift to the increasingly sophisticated and ruthless state and criminal hackers.
I gather MS is developing a "WIN-12". No 11? God help us. The hackers won't be far behind in analysing it.}
Amberrose · 36-40, F
It was never good windows 8 was an unmitigated disaster that's why windows 10 came out so quickly after 8
Some1somewhere · 36-40, M
No