its not a matter of i have to pay for windows 8..
Its a matter of i do not want to use that stupid os.. I need MS to know i do not want a stupid tablet os. I dont care if they give me a free 4790 2x 290x's and a case to put it in if i buy windows 8.
I will not buy windows 8 on the principal of If i buy the dumb thing they think that its ok to get rid of the start bar. they believe its not a problem to imagine that chimes should be added to a desktop. That its perfectly fine to pretend that a desktop is a tablet/console..
When it isnt..
I dont own a tablet because i dont like the stupid os's I dont own a console any more because i rally dont see the point in them.
and i do not want my pc to have a OS that is for a console/tablet
from the leaks i have seen windows 9 will have the start bar..
I know i can have start is back and use 8.1 and tell it to not go to metro on boot.
But thats not the point lol.
The point is i did not like what they did with windows. and i need them to know that i dont. and the only way the people who think that can get that point across is to not use the dumb thing.
i have my issues with 7 cant make it look like windows 98 as a default windows style "i had done that with xp and vista" also some of the networking stuff annoys me. and they changed the names of stuff. But generally its a good solid os.
but windows 8 is taking the piss.
I will go without dx 12 if i can only get it with windows 8.1.
and i will wait till windows 9 which should be getting released soon enough according to leaks.
8.2 was supposed to get released 1st, but the last i heard there wont be an 8.2 so i hope that means that windows 9 is getting moved forward.