Microsoft, still delusional about Windows 8, has renamed Windows Blue to Windows 8.1, apparently to make it seem more like a minor update to Windows, than a major new release. Experts are predicting Microsoft will release it in time for the Christmas shopping season (naturally), but consumers may get a look at a “preview” version as early as June.
Microsoft has still not confirmed that the update to Windows 8 will allow users to choose to boot straight to the desktop, or even if it will include a start button. Last winter we told you that a start button and the option to boot straight to the desktop was coming to Windows 8, while the so-called Microsoft experts were saying “No way!” Now even those diehard Microsoft fans agree Windows 8.1 will include a start button. However most still say it will not users a choice to boot straight to the desktop. Well, are the Microsoft experts right, or are we right? We’ll know by this summer.
Windows 8 has been a huge flop. Microsoft claims it has sole 100 million licenses for Windows 8, but some Wall Street analysts are putting that number closer to 57 million. One thing for sure, Windows 8, if Windows 8.1 doesn’t address all the consumer complaints, will end up in the same place Windows ME (the worst Windows ever!) and Windows Vista did.
When will Microsoft’s arrogance end? Maybe when they are no longer floating on a huge pile of cash. Unfortunately. that won’t be anytime soon; Microsoft has a huge stockpile of cash. In the meantime, we’ll just have to take what the give us — or learn Mac or Android.
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I can not believe I paid to use Windows 8. It is not user friendly for seniors. I hate not having the start button. My favorite was Windows XP. So easy to use and figure out.
I completely agree Pat…..had I known what I was getting I would have not gone with W8!! I hated losing my XP but had no choice but to get a new computer when my XP machine died (admittedly it was very old). I dearly wish that Microsoft had just come out with XP2 or whatever they’d want to call it….an updated version for those of us who don’t want to switch to touchscreens and apps and whatnot. Apparently they don’t care about what the older population likes.
I am extremely disappointed in you !!! You always say not to update drivers – “if it works don’t fix it”. But you continue to advertise a driver update program that finally leads you to a lot of McAfee advertising and an activation payment required. I have always loved your newsletters, but this one is over the top.
This article has nothing to with drivers at all. Zero. It has to do with a Windows 8 update to address the concerns of customers who aren’t buying Windows 8 because it has no start button and because of the “start screen” which is designed for touch screens.
Honestly, you’re looking at “Ad by Google” or “Ad Choices” by Google and we have nothing to do with the content of those ads. If we have warned users once we’ve warned them a million times to be careful to separate page content from ads. We do not control ads on our Web site (over 15,000 pages). And this is covered under our privacy policy. We control the ads in our newsletters only — those are hand entered by us — these are network ads – the same ads you see on thousands of other sites.
Don’t be so quick to criticize; get the facts straight and if we’re wrong we’ll admit it. But you’ve been warned to be careful when downloading, when installing software, and when reading articles on the web, that you know which is an ad and which is content. And we’ve covered this a million times — including in our privacy policy, which has been in place since 2008. We use an ad network to serve the ads. If you see an ad for a bad product on your favorite TV show you don’t write your favorite TV show and complain — because you know the show doesn’t have anything to do with the ads.
Wow, didn’t read a thing about driver updates in this article. Only about the next Microsoft Windows system.
Thank you 🙂 I got emails notifying me of the first two comments and I panicked thinking somehow the content had been switch. But it was exactly as I wrote it — didn’t see a word about drivers. Then it dawned on me — the were looking at a advertisement.
Garth needs to look again. What he has seen has nothing to do with Cloudeight and is a an advert from “adChoices” of which there are several on the page.
It really annoys me when people do not look properly at things and rush in and condemn TC and EB for things they have no control over.
Remember Garth, think and look carefully before you click.
Thank you. I put a disclaimer below the article. The content of the article was ignored and we get blasted for an ad placed by an ad network. I thought the info about Windows 8.1 was interesting. Maybe we should put the ads in the content space and put our content in the ad spaces?
Ad Blockers work wonders 🙂
Ad Blockers, if everyone used them, would be the end of free sites and services.
Install the Adblock Plus extension (Firefox)!
I see no ads in this article for drivers or ANYTHING else!
So Web sites such as ours shouldn’t make a penny on advertising? There are some decent products being advertised from time to time.
Do you think Web sites cost nothing to run. That server administration is free?
These advertisements help us pay our server costs – and barely cover a fraction of our expenses — and ads keep many of the site you use free. If everyone took your advice many sites would start charging (game sites, etc.)
You don’t block ads on your TV set, or do you? Maybe that’s why my cable bill is so high.
If everyone follows your advice, then many of the sites folks now enjoy free, will become subscription sites, free of ads. Is that what you’re advocating?
We don’t pick and choose the ads which appear on this site, and obviously driver updater software is nothing we would ever recommend — that was just one advertisement. We’ve had others for really good products such as good deals on smartphones, tablets, and good software.
Oh wait, you wouldn’t know — you blocked them all.
We just hope that others consider how things are being paid for — like POGO games which many people play free. And this site, and many like it which provide useful information — free of charge.
I guess you’d rather pay a subscription fee for all the sites you visit than to see an advertisement — one, which in fact, you don’t have to click if it doesn’t interest you.
We don’t use popup ads or floaters or interstitials, because we find them annoying (though they pay much better). But the ads which appear here do not blink, fly across the screen, or popup when you exit the site. We’ve kept them to a minimum.
So, others who read your post, and take your advice will be the first to complain how site which were once free are no no longer free —
Advertising helps us and others sites like ours, pay a part of the costs associated with running and maintaining a Web presence.
May I add that most of us here appreciate your efforts to minimize the annoying type ads (my personal most detested are the blinkers or flashers, whatever you call them). It is the user’s responsibility to remember that clicking on links and ads can take you anywhere and many of those places are not very nice. I’m sure the people who freely click on those types of things REALLY give their AV software a workout. Most sites have some sort of ads, all you have to do is not allow yourself to be drawn in by the ‘pretty lights and pretty words’…and remember also…….there is no such thing as a free lunch….lol!!
I must admit that I also did not recognize that the stuff on the right of your news letter was ADDS. Now I and a few others are a little wiser. Thanks for telling your followers for the 1,000,001 time.
Arnie (that old buzzard from Nova Scotia)
Whole lot of opinion and not much in the way of facts in this very poorly written “article”.
If you have a copy of Windows 8.1 and you have some facts, we’d love to hear them! Right now MS isn’t saying anything about Windows 8.1 other than it is a free upgrade for Windows 8 users and they’re addressing some user concerns — whatever you consider them to be. You’re not big on commas, are you?
I see people are posting on this site, who know nothing about what they are talking about. However, they are the first ones to complain and denigrate those who do. There is an ad at the end of article, for a driver download for windows 7, not for windows 8. Thank you, ads do not bother me. I don’t have to click on them, and no one else has to either.
Me too Robert. Not my cuppa tea so I don’t drink it………..
I sense a lot of anger here. It is disturbing to me. I trust Cloudeight completely, and I hate to see the frustration that leads to anger brought on by the few miscreants who do not read carefully or are just not paying attention to how we are all manipulated by advertising that we have no control over. I certainly understand the anger…I would probably feel the same way if my efforts to help people were ignored and criticized by dumbbells who don’t read properly or carefully and come away misinformed!!!
NOTE: ‘dumbbells’ is my description….NOT TC’s or EB’s!!
P.S.: Please remember that the greater majority of your members and readers know and appreciate your generous and helpful efforts on our behalf. God Bless you!
I guess I’m going to be one of the last Windows 7 users. LOL I really like 7 and have no desire to buy 8. I used my daughter’s Win 8 puter and it was a very confusing experience. I started out with Windows in 1992 upgraded through the versions to 7. They were all instinctive and easy to figure out but 8 blew my mind. Everything I tried to do seem to be a backward step for Microsoft. I’m not sure what they are trying to do.
Imagine me: I went from W3 to W8 with very little computer training. I’m doing all the stuff I want to do, and deciding I don’t want what I can’t do. Say, that’s not a bad way to live a life now that I said it…
I have Windows 8 and love it, yes I am a senior, the way to use Windows 8 is to listen to Cloud 8 they know of what they speak. Reading your weekly letter has made my computer experience over the years so much easier. I have programs you suggested including Windows 8, and am enjoying it. May not be for the business person but I like it, only because I use YOUR input Cloud eight 8.
Thank you. Will look forward to the new Windows with your help!!!!
Tis the way of the world– I guess we just have to smarten up and make up our minds who to believe!!!!
It happens in the grocery store as well ???–just have to use ones noggen (brain) — ALL THE TIME.
OMGoodness, No one that I trust more than you guys…and your advice, not sure? Don’t click on it! Is that so hard to understand? I do not know anyone that does not understand an ad! So obviously I do not know Garth!