/g/ - You now remember the Windows 8.0 Start Menu Deskto - Technology

Anonymous

12/15/25(Mon)23:31:08 No.107565762

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Anonymous 12/15/25(Mon)23:31:08 No.107565762 Archived

You now remember the Windows 8.0 Start Menu Desktop replacement debacle.

Anonymous
12/15/25(Mon)23:35:16 No.107565787

Anonymous 12/15/25(Mon)23:35:16 No.107565787

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>>107565762

Anonymous
12/15/25(Mon)23:36:36 No.107565795

Anonymous 12/15/25(Mon)23:36:36 No.107565795

>changes entire OS interface for phones
>stops making phones almost immediately after
What did Microsoft mean by this?

Anonymous
12/15/25(Mon)23:37:45 No.107565800

Anonymous 12/15/25(Mon)23:37:45 No.107565800

I just remembered I'm gay and that I love men

Anonymous
12/15/25(Mon)23:39:18 No.107565808

Anonymous 12/15/25(Mon)23:39:18 No.107565808

>>107565800
based faggot

Anonymous
12/16/25(Tue)01:21:34 No.107566479

Anonymous 12/16/25(Tue)01:21:34 No.107566479

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>>107565762
Unfortunately the beginning of having to change defaults post-install to make Windows usable.

Still, with Start8/Classic Shell it may have been the fastest windows version released to date.

So much was done after Windows 7 to improve the driver model and speed the OS up even on HDD. All this was lost again in Windows 10

Anonymous
12/16/25(Tue)01:32:36 No.107566539

Anonymous 12/16/25(Tue)01:32:36 No.107566539

>>107565795
They thought TABLETS were the next big thing.

Anonymous
12/16/25(Tue)03:07:42 No.107567075

Anonymous 12/16/25(Tue)03:07:42 No.107567075

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>>107565762
I might be called a retarded faggot for this but I didn't actually hate windows 8. I was forced to use it for one of my machines because of some weird hardware support quirk, but it happened to be the machine I had on my living room television. And it worked pretty well for that, on a TV with an Xbox controller and one of those wireless keyboards with a trackpad.
As an actual desktop OS though holy fuck absolutely not.

Anonymous
12/16/25(Tue)03:11:18 No.107567099

Anonymous 12/16/25(Tue)03:11:18 No.107567099

>>107566539
a kneejerk move that costed them a lot

Anonymous
12/16/25(Tue)04:00:57 No.107567381

Anonymous 12/16/25(Tue)04:00:57 No.107567381

I actually liked the tile interface on desktop

Anonymous
12/16/25(Tue)04:44:02 No.107567672

Anonymous 12/16/25(Tue)04:44:02 No.107567672

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people hated on it without giving it an honest try. just because they felt it's a UI designed solely for touch, but not desktop use.

s0ychan
12/16/25(Tue)04:49:53 No.107567715

s0ychan 12/16/25(Tue)04:49:53 No.107567715

I just remember Windows 8 for crashing all the time, and that instability mostly being fixed when I updated to Windows 10.