Does anyone use windows 8

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough. I use Windows 8. Works wonderfully on my hp compaq pro Windows 10 Pro on this machine slows it down tremendously. I do not care if 8. I am tech savvy enough to solve my own tech issues the majority of the time.

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Such as reported this month. The bump is attributed to the large number of employees now using their home computers for work. Same goes for the bump in Windows 7 users. Better then 10 certainly. I was just wondering who else uses it as well? Sheldon Cooper. Posted 16 April - AM I've been using 8. Despite recent signs of PC sales growth , analyst Gartner says that, in — the last full year we have numbers for at the moment — PC shipments were down almost 30 percent compared to when, of course, Windows 7 was at the height of its powers ahead of the launch of the unloved Windows 8.

The 27 percent figure for Windows 7 is in stark contrast to those for other, less loved versions of Windows. The resource-hungry Windows Vista, which Windows 7 replaced, is now down to a tiny 0.

It probably still takes five minutes to boot up. The acquired taste of Windows 8 and 8. There is no Windows 9, simply because Microsoft felt that Windows 10 represented the big step on from what had gone before.

The new interface — designed for tablet PCs — moved away from the interface that had made Windows so successful since Windows What a joke! Something almost no screen supports well or at all, including most monitors, except very expensive ones how many monitors are 10 bit? People are OK with phone screens, which range from dreadful to not as dreadful and MS thinks overblown images will sell? I use Windows 8. All the main browsers still support it, and Microsoft still provides security updates.

So sticking with Windows 8. Windows 8 certainly got a bad reputation which tells a lot why Windows 7 still has way more users today then Windows 8. I plan to stick with 8.

Windows 11 release will seal the final end to Windows 7 because browsers will start dropping support and even now a lot of software does not support it.

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