Where do pop ups come from...

Then you better stay the fuck away from Windows 8.I use Windows 7 and am really happy with it. They really nailed it with the Search function. You know, the one in the Start Menu.If you want to change something, like your mouse pointer speed, you just start typing 'mouse pointer speed' in the Search box and it comes right up with the settings for exactly that.

IF you can find it!

The problem is that people are used to a big bright Start button on the bottom left. When newbs first start using Win8, there's no indication that you're now supposed to be using the edges and corners to get stuff to show. Its not at all intuitive.

Saying intuitive is a cop out, is itself a cop out.OS's have intuitive features and they have non-intuitive features.A big button with the word "Start" on it, is intuitive. Using invisible sections of the edge of the screen is not. I'm a Windows guy and I never used iOS until my work got me an iPhone. I thought it was intuitive. I was responding to a guy who wrote:

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Generally I prefer old familiar things over shiny new things.

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In the past I had always resisted updating anything because mostly all that happened was they moved the fucking buttons around after I got used to the old ones.

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I pretty sure after 5 minutes of Win8 he's going to be disheartened, especially given that not only did they move the buttons, but they made them invisible and in a completely non-intuitive location.

So have you tried Windows 8 yet?

I meant, like, trying out a demo at a store. I was really impressed with the new search function of Windows 7. Its not just for files anymore, you can search for functions that the OS performs.So, say you want to change your screen resolution. You can type into the search box "change screen resolution" and it will pop up with the video settings options. There's other stuff that changes behind the scenes too, though. Networking can get easier and more secure. The way the OS implements hardware. Stuff like that that you don't see from your computer chair.Actually, I just put in a new motherboard in my computer, which runs Windows 7. Normally, that's a whole new build with reinstalling the OS. We decided to just through everything back together to see what happens. Windows fired right up. And it was installed on a Raid 0 on two harddrives. That's actually pretty sweet.

I'm not that old... This new motherboard has a 3D bios, which is kinda cool: I have a different board than that one.