Comments on: What’s Missing From Windows 8?

By: abram730

abram730 — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 16:52:44 +0000

What is missing from Windows 8? Freedom. That is what is missing.
A personal computer is personal, as in it belongs to me.. If I wanted a Mac, I’d buy one. But my IQ is more then 4x my age, and that precludes me from being an Apple customer. I’m not one of those i-diots, nor will I be precluding some massive head injury.
If the desktop is “legacy” and the wall garden is the future, conciser me a legacy customer. I will go to Linux, wow that makes me feel a bit sick saying that as I’ve been using Microsoft products since I was a kid. I remember when hard disks were the new thing with their 1.4mb storage.. But apparently I’m not in the “trustzone”. That is I’m not trusted to say what my PC can and can not do, nor am I able to gain full access to API’s or give such access to programs I choose to install.

I am going to read up on Linux, I hear it’s free.

By: GMP

GMP — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 04:17:36 +0000

There is indead a Windows 7 File Recovery. And it does look the same. But it is not.
On my Windows 7 systems I used Windows 7 backup utility and had a NAS for backup location.
This no longer works with the Windows 8 version.
It does work when I backup to a local drive, but not anymore to the NAS.
To bad.

By: Saiber77

Saiber77 — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 07:26:44 +0000

It could be a Triple play, attempt to get a corner in the tablet\smartphone market while simultaneously boosting Windows 7 sales among non-touchscreen customers, and gaining popularity among youth and new computer users who haven’t used a decent GUI before.
I’m sure the demographic wasn’t far off from that… lol.

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:19:45 +0000

no color in notification area..

By: Rahid

Rahid — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 18:48:40 +0000

This sucks and I upgraded to it good thing I didn’t buy it so now I’ll downgrade it and plus download those applications for notifications and all like that , even mac surpasses windows 8 so damn Microsoft I’m starting to hate it.

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:16:21 +0000

Wow, thanks for the tip. My mistake! (Was that there in the prerelease versions? I remember reading Microsoft blog posts saying that feature was being removed and replaced.)

Windows 8 does indeed contain the Windows 7 backup feature, but it seems like it’s more for recovering files from older backup. Microsoft says it’s been “deprecated” and replaced by the latest version, so I wouldn’t count on it.

By: Leifur

Leifur — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:58:06 +0000

Same Old Windows 7 Backup is STILL there in Windows 8. This report is in error. I am using FILE HISTORY and Old Backup now on the same drive along with putting my Page file on that running drive to cut down on Fragging files.

It is called Window 7 File Recovery in Control Panel. Same program. I found it by click on my old Windows Backup shortcut.

I went and got Paragon 3rd party backup up but now going back to the Windows Backup because it works while Windows is running to make an Image Clone of my 1.2 TB installation and the others require a reboot and is done is DOS ..sometimes in the past this type action ruined both my Windows and the Backup screwing me.

By: Alchmist

Alchmist — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:13:38 +0000

What is missing with Windows 8. http://www.alchmist.com/?p=373

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:43:30 +0000

The update changes are actually pretty amazing. Of course, they’re just reversing a change.

By: Dixit

Dixit — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 07:04:51 +0000

Among all a very good thing done by Microsoft is that Microsoft has removed the updating feature. This feature was so ridiculous and so irritating. Thanks to Microsoft for this.

In my opinion Microsoft should not has to remove the Windows Aero feature it was good.

By: Victor Ong

Victor Ong — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:04:34 +0000

Though there advantages to the new system, as mentioned. MS probably just think these advantages outweigh the costs….

By: Victor Ong

Victor Ong — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:01:06 +0000

Well, the auto color switch might make up for some of it no?

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 21:12:50 +0000

Yup, to be fair, kernel updates and such on Ubuntu work the same way (Although there’s actually a way to update the kernel and swap to new kernel without rebooting, amazingly enough: It’s called Ksplice.)

Hopefully Windows 8 will require less restarts, but we’ll see.

By: blue

blue — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 17:08:47 +0000

Wow, you still have to restart for updates!

My 10 year old ubuntu laptop can still do better than that.

Really the only things you need to restart for are system-core updated

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 20:54:56 +0000

Windows XP will be supported until April 2014, when security updates will end.