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microsoft

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I'm gonna say it.
I thought windows 8/8.1 were very fun
- When I first booted a Windows Server with tiles interface, I was tempted to yeet it out of the window [sic!].
- You just reminded me of the arguments I had with people when the start menu changed. They really wanted to press start, go to all programs, look for software publisher folder, look for software name folder, look for software name, click. They swear it was more efficient than pinning it to the start menu, or pressing start and type the first couple of letters to find a program and start it.
  
  8's did have some major issues though, but eventually 10 nailed it imo. I swear that if modern UI designers come up with something good, it's wholly by accident and they have no idea why it's good. What they ended up with on 11 is objectively inferior.
  
  We had users at work who swore by that so hard that my boss bought licenses for "Classic Shell" that just did that.
  Usefulness wise, the pinned program and search method is objectively much better.
  
  If only the search function worked more than half of the time, just like it doesn't work on 10
- Still using 8.1 on my personal PC. Once Bitdefeder stops supporting it, I'll switch to Mint and get a few more years from the hardware.
  
  It's better to migrate on your own timeline instead of letting a vendor dictate it
- Better than 11 at any rate
- I enjoyed windows 8 when I was able to play Jetpack Joyride on my PC before I had a smartphone.
  Then after that wore off I reinstalled Windows 7.
- Same! I wasn't thrilled with the start menu of 8, but 8.1 fixed that. Especially after skipping Vista, it was nice to finally move to something else. Since I work in IT, we decided not to use 8 either in the company, but I could do whatever and was happy to use it until 10 released. We even got the first few surfaces just to try out as well, which were cool.

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