Windows 8.1

[Cliphead]

Stop making stuff up, you spend most of your time in PC World getting advice from your peers.

I agree some of us can actually evaluate whether a software is good or crap, but not you. Well done for mentioning a VM, you almost sound like you know what your talking about. Try throwing in a few more technical terms so you don't sound so moronic. And don't lie your mum bought you machine and gave it to your early cause she felt sorry for you because girls don't speak to you.

Keep opening the fckwit hole you're digging for yourself.

If you're being serious I pity you and you really need some help. Trolling? Complete fail.

[woohoo]

Keep opening the fckwit hole you're digging for yourself.

If you're being serious I pity you and you really need some help. Trolling? Complete fail.

Great reply, well done. Don't get disheartened and keep on trying.

[AtW]

There are some good kernel improvements in Win 8 - most of tulipe it gets is for new GUI.

It works better with more RAM (tested myself on systems with 384 GB of RAM), SMB 3.0 (file sharing) seems flaky though.

It's useable as desktop with Classic shell that brings back proper Start button - Win 8.1 might not go far enough with that, have not tested that one yet.

[suityou01]

There are some good kernel improvements in Win 8 - most of tulipe it gets is for new GUI.

It works better with more RAM (tested myself on systems with 384 GB of RAM), SMB 3.0 (file sharing) seems flaky though.

It's useable as desktop with Classic shell that brings back proper Start button - Win 8.1 might not go far enough with that, have not tested that one yet.

Strange quantity.

[Bunk]

Strange quantity.

Not really, quite common where memory is concerned.

128 + 128 + 128 = 384

For example, the upper memory area, above the 640k base memory is 384k. Not that that matters much anymore.

[minestrone]

Converging tablet and desktop OSs was a necessary one and one that not many people predicted, admittedly it was a bit of a fook up but they will get it right in the end.

MS know the desktop PC is dead but they have to still offer a desktop OS somehow, I really think the surface 2 is a great device, tablet that can be configured to be a desktop and laptop. I think that general theme is the future.

[AtW]

Strange quantity.

Too small

[AtW]

Converging tablet and desktop OSs was a necessary one and one that not many people predicted, admittedly it was a bit of a fook up but they will get it right in the end.

Apple got MacOS and iOS - seems to work well for them.

It's stupid to piss off existing loyal customer base by removing things like start button, no option to default to desktop etc - they kind of fixed it in 8.1, but they did have this feedback even before release of 8.

Who is developing for desktop anyway, other than games? It's either mobile or "cloud" - in the first instance Microsoft loses to iOS/Android and in the second to Linux.

The way those jokers are running the company might make me switch to Java from .NET.

[suityou01]

Not really, quite common where memory is concerned.

128 + 128 + 128 = 384

For example, the upper memory area, above the 640k base memory is 384k. Not that that matters much anymore.

Yep but I thought memory was installed in pairs.

[stek]

Yep but I thought memory was installed in pairs.

Don't think I ever seen a 128GB stick yet...