I Don't Like Windows 8

I don’t like  Window 8 and I don't like Windows 8.1 much better, based on the preview for Windows 8.1. My computer is NOT a tablet, and it’s pretty obvious Windows 8 was made for a tablet.

It is the ugly, in your face made for a tablet Start screen that I just can’t learn to love.

I’ve tried. I’ve tweaked and tweaked, setting Windows 8 and now Windows 8.1, to by pass that ugly Start screen, even learned to use that pitiful Start menu, but…I still hate it.

I want to keep my computers totally separate from a tablet. On my computer I don’t want to connect to an ‘App Store’, I don’t want to play a game with Xbox and I don’t want to store all my stuff in SkyDrive. so I don’t need all of these items. But I can’t even be sure it isn’t happening, at least the SkyDrive thing.

A trivial thing, it doesn’t come with my favorite game, Spider Solitaire. There is a free one in the app store, but it isn’t the same.

I told someone recently that change happens and we have to adjust. I guess I should take my own advice, but as long as I can get Windows 7 I will use it.  After that I may have to use a more recent version of Windows. Maybe some third party program will enable me to totally block that horrible Start page with all of those in your face tiles. I can only hope!

And just a note, that email program totally sucks!

As for Spider Solitaire, I waste too much time with it, so maybe that isn’t so bad after all.