Windows OSes: 7 Pro or 8 Pro?

[Carm]

7. Eight sucked. 10 is better than 8
jdc that might have been Win 8. 7 has no tiles.

[kap]

Got this desktop PC for free with pre-installed 7 Pro. PC crashed. No option to reinstall the OS. Another friend gave me the Windows 8 Pro install DVD. Real question: Anyone here wants to sell of his Windows 7 Pro install DVD with the activation code?

[Michael]

Carm wrote:
7. Eight sucked. 10 is better than 8

This.

[pokari]

Hey kap, no need to get an activation code for your Windows 7 as long as you can get a DVD that is branded for your device. For instance, if you use a Dell DVD to install the OS onto the Dell device it will automatically pull the activation/registration key over without any hassle at all. I do this all the time at work.

Also, if people are using Windows 8, you can get a little free app called Classic Shell and it will make Windows 8 appear to run like Windows 7, no Metro/tiled look.

[ka jowct]

pokari wrote:

...if people are using Windows 8, you can get a little free app called Classic Shell and it will make Windows 8 appear to run like Windows 7, no Metro/tiled look.

This. Makes a big difference.

[cbelt3]

We replaced 8 with 10. That was a relief. 8 was the Windows Me of the 21st century.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

I would only run Win7 on a PC that had no access to the internet. It's not secure. Win10 running a laptop fan at full speed until it burned up is a 1-in-10,000 event.

[pRICE cUBE]

Even with the mode that turns WIndows 8 back to a desktop environment, the overall OS is slow and sludgy. When I open a folder with many files it takes a while just to display files. It also takes a while to load any video or audio file to play. It basically has made this HP laptop into a web surfing machine only. You can't get any real work done on it. Windows 7 was much faster, should have stayed with it.

[testcase]

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[GuyGene]

All the above is what keeps me on Mac OS. I have Windows XP and 10. I've never used 10 yet because my MacBook Pro's SSD is too small (insert self-kicking machine here) to partition for 10. Dagnabbedit.