Thread: Windows 8: Good or Bad?

Not sure why we are discussing Windows 7, Windows 7 Search, or Windows 7 Indexing in a Windows 8 Forum, but since this thread has went around the corner a couple times already.
Improve Windows searches using the index: frequently asked questions

Personally have often found either Everything Everything Search Engine
and or
Agent Ransack Agent Ransack - Free File Searching Utility
more suitable for my personal needs, but I'm old, and set in my ways, and a bit of a luddite, so apply a grain of salt as needed.
Regards
Randy

I've never had any problems in Windows 7 with search or shortcut issues, Of course I never had problems with 2000 or XP either. I think they all worked fine for me. Although maybe I haven't used these OS's to do things that others do so anyway atleast MS has given us 5 or more Windows versions to choose from. I guess you can't beat that. The only Windows I had problems with was 98', it crashed so often and froze that I got very ticked off and switched back to XP. Those were the days before Win 7 and Win 8. Vista was never an option when I had my older thinkpad laptop so I was stuck with XP and it served me well, now I only use the newer systems because of the gaming support it has for newer games with Directx 10 and 11.

Is everyone ready for tonight?

Today is the 15th August 2012 and we, the interested (and not so interested), await for the golden hour:12pm PST when Microsoft's latest os Windows 8 becomes available to those with TechNet and MSDN accounts.

My browsers ready... Is yours?

Originally Posted by kemical

Is everyone ready for tonight?

"when Microsoft's latest os Windows 8 becomes available to those with TechNet and MSDN accounts."

I am very disappointed with Microsoft's recent (July 16) reorganization of TechNet. Product Keys that we have in use on our computers have been disabled so we cannot even reinstall an OS that we currently have installed for MANY of the products. These same products are not even available for download any more (not even to be used with a purchased product key). Does anyone know if Windows 8 is going to be one of the restricted products that is not available to TechNet Standard subscribers or will it be available to all TechNet members?

With the exception of this caveat

Does not include Enterprise or Microsoft Dynamics software.

It looks to me like your standard subscription, with respect to available software downloads, will be pretty much the same as the Pro or Pro with Media versions.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/.../hh442910.aspx