Anyone using Windows 8 ?

[ezdays]

I have a request for all software makers be it games, work programs, OS's, Mac or PC. Quit bringing out new versions with a whole bunch of promised bells and whistles when you haven't yet got all the bugs out of the old version. And don't give us crap we don't want and didn't ask for like the stupid start-up screen with Windows 8. Because of the internet I will keep a laptop with fairly recent upgrades but the desktop will stay Win 2000 forever. O.K. that may not be possible down the road but it will stay Win 2000 as long as possible.

Probably what galls me the most is every version calls the same function by a different name, puts it in a different place, and there's always a different way to access or run it. Why is that necessary other than to show that this is a newer version and that they have control over how you do things. Could not someone come out with a competing operating system that would run Windows programs more efficiently and without all the confusion?

You are right, there are probably a few hundred functions that I don't know exist, most of which I wouldn't use even if I knew they were there. They take up disk space and slow everything down. I remember when you could get Windows and all your programs on a 40mb disk. Windows alone now takes up about 1000 times that amount of space. I remember a machine that booted up in about 30 seconds, not the three minutes it takes now days