I Hate Windows 8

     I hate Windows 8.  To be completely accurate; utterly precise; rigorously exact; categorically, unequivocally, expressly understood about this - I frickin' hate Windows 8.  It must be bad if it has an old lady using the almost f-word, right?  Yes, it's that bad, and more.
     I've often said to Mike that my timing is awful.  I always end up buying high and selling low.  It figured that when I needed a new computer, the operating system that had just appeared on the scene was Windows 8.
     So what has me all hot and bothered?  Let me begin.
   
     1. Windows 8 (actually Windows 8.1 - it has already undergone changes because everybody hates it) is a radical departure from any other Windows operating system you might have used. Nothing about it looks the same.  Somebody at Microsoft decided that desk top computers should look and act like smartphones and tablets.  When you start up your computer, you get a bunch of pictures (called tiles).  No icons to double click, no "Start" button, just tiles.  'Cause we all want apps, right?

Tiles

     
     2.  Wrong.  We want our old desktop.  There is a tile called "Desktop."  If you click the "Desktop" tile, you will be taken to something that resembles the old Windows start up screen.  This desktop is a fooler, though.  It won't do what your old desktop did.  At first there wasn't a "Start" button to bring up your programs.   Somebody at Microsoft must have heard the wailing and gnashing of teeth because in the 8.1 update, they added a so-called start button.  Can you see it on the illustration below, on the bottom, left corner?

Starting to feel familiar?

 Here's a bigger pic:

The new start button.

  
What happens when you click the new start button?  You get sent back to the tile page!
     3.  I started out by saying that Microsoft created Windows 8 to push the idea of using apps, like phones and tablets.  So, my new PC came with a touch screen.  Every time I sit down at my computer that greasy, smeared touch screen stares me in the face.  I don't like doggy nose prints on the car windows, I don't like flossing splatter on the bathroom mirror, and I especially don't like finger prints all over my monitor.
   
     So, what can you do if you don't like using tiles and you find trying to navigate the woefully inadequate excuse for the old desktop too complicated?  You can install a program that makes Windows 8 look and operate like the older versions of the Windows operating system.  One of these programs is called Classic Shell.  You can downgrade to Windows 7.  Really, would you? You can wait for the next Windows system to be released.  I hear they are going back to the tried and true desktop.  That's an admission that Windows 8 is a flop.  Maybe disgruntled Windows 8 users should get a free upgrade.
     Wait, there's another solution.  Buy a Mac.  Did you hear me, Bill Gates?  I'm piqued off, and I'm not gonna take this any more.