is Windows8 the debil?

Win8 was change for the sake of change, while offering no substantial improvements to either the casual home user, or average office drone, and as such just makes those people's lives that much more miserable.

Win7 worked fine, had no major flaws, and people switched to it from XP & Vista with minimal difficulties.

In reply to Chris_V:

Here was my experience; plug trackball into laptop, use laptop. Install my own browser (Chrome, in this case) and browse. I could launch Chrome from a desktop that looked basically identical to Win7, but then Chrome would 'fly' into view and the desktop would fly out. So now Chrome is running kind of full screen, I don't have a system bar at the bottom anymore, but it's Chrome and that's okay I guess, that's what I'm focusing on currently. And I could alt-tab back.

Then I pulled the trackball and moved the laptop to a different room. Suddenly Chrome wants to go true full screen. Windows would even tell me this, with a little note at the top, something like "We just went fullscreen! F11 to exit." And I'd hit F11 and it'd happen again and again. I tried, in vain, to bookmark a website five times. Each time I'd get the cursor near Chrome's little menu tabs button and the browser would go fullscreen and those controls would be gone.

So I go to the Microsoft support forums and find this;

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-desktop/how-do-you-turn-off-fullscreen-mode-in-windows-8/89937d21-f620-4d45-b46d-f907aeae448a

You can't turn this off? This is a feature? I wasn't about to burn an existing Windows 7 license on this so I returned the laptop.

You don't know what you want. Microsoft knows what you want. Prepare to be assimilated. Resistance is futile!

In reply to 1988RedT2:

I really feel like it was operator error but I had no idea what I could possibly be doing wrong. When apps are deciding, or the OS is deciding, that you randomly would really like a different viewing mode... it was incredibly frustrating.

pres589 wrote: So I go to the Microsoft support forums and find this; http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-desktop/how-do-you-turn-off-fullscreen-mode-in-windows-8/89937d21-f620-4d45-b46d-f907aeae448a You can't turn this off? This is a feature? I wasn't about to burn an existing Windows 7 license on this so I returned the laptop.

It sounds to me like that was something making google chrome open as an app rather than a normal program. Not that I like windows 8, but I have been using it for months without that happening. The post on that forum seems to be by someone who doesn't speak English as their first language, so they didn't even understand the question.

1988RedT2 wrote: You needs to Ubuntu yer Linux! ...and plug in yer printer.

When my old laptop started showing it's age, I got myself a Linux education and replaced Microsoft. Definitely not a painless swap, but my 8 yr old laptop boots in 10 seconds and has no slowdowns thus far