Quote - One more small thing...it seems to be the trend in OS's lately to become more 'stupid' and idiot-proof rather than less. I find I want more options for customizing as the years go by. I'm not sure if it's because users are either that stupid or unwilling to bother with their computers, but it should always be an option for experienced power users. After all, a computer is not your average appliance that you can just use and never bother with settings or tweaking like a television or a telephone. And that IMVHO, is the beauty of it ;). It's really sad that Microsoft has chosen this route. I'd much rather be able to tweak to my heart's content than take what I'm given. Maybe I'm just a rebel...hahahahaha.

One thing I definitely do NOT see is businesses migrating to Windows 8. It's just not gonna happen. They'll either have to go back to the pre-Windows 8 model or split the OS's again. I'd have no problem at all with the latter. I'd happily buy the business OS ;).

Laurie

Oh, yes. This is my impression too.

I'm going to guess that eventually the major commercial OS's will be so infuriating that "experienced power users" won't even bother with them. We'll all be using Linux or equivalent.

Earlier this year I took some community college classes. A substantial number of users among those students admitted that the sum total of their computer knowledge consisted of knowing how to use Facebook. And it turned out that, for the most part, they were the more experienced ones. You don't want to know what the average newbie user is really like. But whoever said that if you're posting in these forums it indicates that you're an experienced user is quite right. Just accessing the web on a laptop which has already been connected to a network by IT professionals is apparently quite difficult for many people. I'm seriously not kidding.

I'm surprised most people can even make a phone call these days.

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