Had to buy a new laptop to replace the one that got trashed when my dog trampled it. I had left the laptop on the bed and my dog lost his mind and stomped on the keyboard while trying to get across the bed to run to the door. My fault for leaving the laptop open and on the bed with the dog, but I’m blaming the dog.
Anyway, I found a decent Toshiba laptop on sale for under $300, so I grabbed it up at a local retailer rather than ordering it online and waiting a week for it to arrive UPS. But what I had not considered is that the new computers all come with Windows 8 installed on them. Ugh.
I figured out most of what I needed to know to set up the new laptop. I had to install updates and software, set up the router to get online, and transfer my documents and graphics files from the old laptop.
Once I started using the new laptop, I realized the most annoying problem with the new Windows 8 is that they count on swiping to trigger all the menus and apps. Well, if you are using a touchpad, swiping is part of your everyday use for everything from typing a Word document to playing a quick game. The swiping blanks out your current screen display and replaces it with an app or a menu. Its very annoying and time consuming to have to cancel the swipe and get back to what you were working on.
Right now, I’m frustrated and not impressed with the Windows 8 at all. As far as I’m concerned, Windows 7 was fine. It did the job, we know how to use it and all Microsoft did was fix something that was not broken just for the sake of change. It’s like Microsoft has adopted the Facebook mentality – keep changing things and pissing off your users.