Well, that is why we (including yourself) have gathered in here because people like us are the voices of reason in a world full of fools!
(Off topic)Speaking of slow Windows 7, sometimes if you disable the minimize/maximize animations, it will feel much quicker. I wonder if it perhaps has to do with perception of the eye. What I mean is, I never felt it was too much slower than Windows XP, Vista was a freaking glue though. *looo* Although, my measure could be wrong because I in recent years have had the privilege of owning top of the line hardware.
Currently, I'm on an Intel Core i7-3820 3.6GHz + NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 ...and... drum roll... 32GB(!) of 1600MHz RAM. A funny thing though, I ran Windows Server 2008 R2 + Hyper-V + Windows 7 x64 on this machine... and now running Windows Server 2012 + Hypver-V + Windows 8 x64... this machine feels A LOT... and I mean A LOT faster now. I think they did do some nice improvements in Windows 8 to get this kind of speed difference and I even ran defrag on a regular basis.
For example, the game ARMA 2 loads in 13 seconds instead of almost 50 seconds! Things feel a lot more snappier now. I HOPE that it all is not just because they took Aero Glass effect out of this thing! *loool* That would mean they build that effect horribly wrong.
I absolutely miss Aero Glass effect, using Windows 8 + Office 2013 feels like prison. Not only it has that moronic creepy Orwellian "Windows Store" in it, but it is UGLY! ...and I really mean it, UGLY! This new Windows 8 theme is SO AMAZINGLY
claustrophobic that you wouldn't believe. At first one doesn't notice it but the more you use it, the more claustrophobic it feels.
I remember when Aero Glass came out (the only thing I disliked was the round corners) I was happy because my day of adding themes on Windows was over. It was a very fresh and light look for some reason. Never got tired of it... now this Windows 8... oh my, Windows 9x had a better and more fresh theme than this thing... heck even Windows 3.1 beats it!
Been pondering a good while now to move my main desktop machine to Linux. I mean, if I'm going to fiddle with themes, I might as well use Linux. I'm so so so sooo sick of Microsoft and their fucked up attitude toward customers that I find no words to describe the feeling. I mean, MOTHERFUCKERS, WHY NOT GIVE THE CUSTOMER THE DAMN OPTION TO TURN THE AERO GLASS ON IF THE CUSTOMER WISHES TO?
Not sure which one is worse, Microsoft removing the choice for the customer or the idiots running around on forums like Neowin cheering Microsoft to NOT giving customers the option to enable Aero Glass... I MEAN REALLY, WHAT THE FUCK!
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Ps. This is proof that using statistics is not always a good way of measurement, I use Windows 8 but I HATE IT. *lol* Even though I am part of the statistics of people running it, does not mean at all that I like this thing.