Window 8

Microsoft's Windows 7 with the infamous "Metro UI" added.

The correct name is with the singular form of "window", because Metro only has one window.

See: Useless

Windows 1. 1985: Multitasking, windows. Close/minimize/maximize buttons.

Windows 2 1988. re-sizable, movable windows.

Windows XP 2001: Pretty blue windows.

Windows Vista 2007: Transparent windows, flip-3d.

Window 8 metro 2012: No separate windows or any form of multitasking, no close button, no resizing. Can only do one thing at a time.

by [e-mail] April 6, 2013

Windows 8

Design over usability, by design.

Microsoft Store Salesperson: You'd like this Sony Vaio notebook, sir?
Computer Buyer: Yes. Core i5, 8 gigs of RAM, sounds really nice.
Salesperson: It also come with Windows 8. On Windows 8 you'll have access to hundreds of new "apps". It's really great.
Buyer: Oh, I don't want that. I just want to use iTunes and Firefox.
Salesperson: You can do that on Windows 8, sir. Just click on the "Desktop" icon.
Buyer: *playing around with the store model* Oh, okay, well.... wa... where is the Start Menu?
Salesperson: It was replaced with the new Start Screen. There you have access to all of your applications, just like the old Start Menu.
Buyer: Alright, well, how do I go to the Control Panel?
Salesperson: It's really easy. All you do is right-click the desktop and choose Screen Resolution, and then just click a few other categories and you'll find it. To change the Start Screen applications and personalization you just use its own control panel in the Start Screen.
Buyer: ...Is this notebook compatible with Windows XP?
Salesperson: (mentally) *FFFFUUUUUUUU*

by trwitter October 24, 2012

Windows 8

Windows 8 is the worst Microsoft software ever because it is so non-user friendly. Why would
I want to save my documents to the cloud?

Windows 8 is much worse than Windows 7 because of how the software is designed.

by PWS27 June 3, 2017

windows 8

a cell phone simulator on your pc

windows 8 is like a cell phone computer

by tornadofan122 September 5, 2013

Windows 8

An absolute mess. The task manager in 7 is replaced with an oversized, metro-ified pile of junk with too many tabs and the font is oversized and blue. The once-convenient start menu has been replaced with an ugly, unconventional, intrusive, oversized startscreen that adds nothing new except for apps that can be jewed from Micro$haft's App Store. More annoyances like the Charms bar, get in the way as well. The charms bar serves no purpose but to pop out when you don't want it to, as well as interfere with the desktop environment and take up another process in the background. The windowing theme is good, if you like to step backwards. The colors of the Aero windowing seemed glossy and pretty, and Windows 8 killed that with flat and unfinished windowing. Also, if you like to use a laptop/desktop with a mouse, like a normal person, you will get the luxury of sliding a wallpaper up upon login, as if you were on a tablet. Convenient. Windows 8 also bothers and nags you to create a Micro$haft account, as if there is a use for one. Remember Dropbox? OneDrive pops up, and needs to be uninstalled via control panel, long with several other bloat apps that come preinstalled such as: Weather, Food & Drink, and Xbox.

"I took a Windows 8 yesterday, it was the size of a squirrel."

by borat420 December 22, 2014

Windows 8

The only operating system that makes Windows Vista seem good. It is just a desktop operating system derived from a cell phone operating system. It may be somewhat fast, but that's because it can't do anything.

WINDOWS 8 SUCKS. MY DESKTOP ISN'T AN F'ING SMARTPHONE!!

by F-Windows-8 April 3, 2012

Windows 8.1

It's Windows 8 but usable and actually good and gets even better with Windows 8.1 Update 1. The start button is back, there's now an all apps view on the start screen, search just searches (before it took you to a different screen, and you had to select what category you were searching in, now it's just a bar that shows up on the right side of the screen and searches everywhere by default), you can boot directly to desktop without going to start, you can use your desktop wallpaper on start, and much more plus more is still being added. You also get used to the metro interface and if you don't like it, Microsoft is adding the old start menu back in Windows 8.1 Update 2. However, it still feels like a beta and Windows 9 will probably be the next god-tier OS like Windows XP and 7, but it's a step in the right direction and feels like you're using a PC and not a tablet.

Windows 7 user: Windows 8 sucks
Windows 8 user: Yeah I want to downgrade to Windows 7
Windows 8.1 user: Why haven't either of you upgraded to 8.1 yet?
Linux user: Why are you guys still using Windows?

by blue_orange July 10, 2014