[AT] OT

[charlie hill]

I haven't used Win 8 but if you have any experience with smart phones 
I think you'll see some similarity.  One of my friends recently got a Win 8
machine and was baffled by it.  He called Best Buy (where he bought it)
They told him to come in for a 30 minute session with someone to show him
how to use it and he's fine with it now.

Charlie


-----Original Message----- 
From: Mike 
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2013 5:18 PM 
To: Antique tractor email discussion group 
Subject: Re: [AT] OT 

I can only tell you that, from my limited experience with both systems, 
you will learn to hate Windows 8 right from the start. If you can get 
someone who is knowledgeable to help you set it up, they can make things 
a LOT easier by getting rid of all the crap. My son thought he was doing 
me a favor by buying me a brand new laptop with Win8 on it, but, aside 
from being able to view all the images me moved from my old machine, I 
haven't found anything that Win8 does easily or naturally. And there is 
a lot of unnecessary crap on the new machine that I have not found any 
need for. I understand that there are ways of getting around the crap 
and odd (NOT user friendly) screens, but I haven't even tried. My 
understanding is that Win8 was designed to support "tablet" machines, so 
Microsoft leaned over backwards in that direction.

Maybe others have had better experiences than I have.

Mike

On 11/9/2013 4:46 PM, Richard Fink Sr wrote:
> Hi need some feed back on computers. My computer with win XP has died
> was looking at a new HP with win 8. Has any one run this and what are
> your thoughts. I am old school love win XP and hate change have been
> told it is all touch and so on takes special screen or
> monitor???????????????? R Fink PA
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