Hey Drew - that's sure going to wind up her engine!
I liked this, Trouble,
"I'm still trying to find something that I can do on Windows 8 that I can't do on Windows 7. "
I have read posted raves about the new hidden features the response etc etc.. I cannot experience any of these things. I am hoping that the RTM will be a huge improvement, as it was with Windows 7.
My own tests, with a simple wristwatch, have not even shown the remarkable extra speed of Windows 8, in its daily useage. In fact, I am afraid I have a general slowdown of most functions, particualerly when using Firefox or IE.
I have always enthused regarding new releases. I even tuned up Vista and got to like it. But this time, so far, it is thumbs down.
For personal reasons, I will have to continue to become familiar with it, through the final release but, at this stage, I am prepared to settle for Windows 7 as my (I'm an old guy) final OS on this planet.
Fwiw. I posted this on the Technet forums in March last year. It led to a very argumentive, long thread. My opinion has not changed:
"Windows (codename 8) is , imho, beginning to shape up as the biggest disapointment ever for those who jump on the new release bandwagons. I have read posts on this forum and others, regarding the reaction to the "leaks". I have downloaded and tried the last two leaks. The so-called "hidden" features are, at this stage, nothing to swoon about. Fwiw, I see Windows 8, or whatever it may be called, not as a move on from the superb 7, but an intermediary release, mainly dedicated to tablet users. Tablets, in their many forms, are enroaching on Microsofts control of the computer market. Windows 8 is an attempt to counteract it. For normal, non tablet users, I do not see, (with the info so far available to us), windows 8 bringing anything outstanding into our lives. - Except, possibly, the touchscreen advancement? "