TheKB Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Just wanted to know. Mine is that the volume you've set on other programs scales with the volume. Happy new year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGHammer Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Just wanted to know. Mine is that the volume you've set on other programs scales with the volume. Happy new year! My favorite feature is something Windows has always had (and apparently a LOT of folks take for granted) - the expansive hardware support. THE reason why there are all those Windows licenses out there is because Windows has historically supported more combinations of hardware than any other OS on the planet - this is both desktop AND server flavors alike. From Rolls-Royce expensive to Yugo-cheap - Windows of some sort runs on darn near all of it. From OEM to white-box to garage-builds - Windows has practically supported most, if not all. If you combine Macs and the "hack" community (most of which comes from the Linux/FOSS community, OS X is starting to catch up - however, what are we hearing from the hard-core Apple-only community (which actually does benefit from what the "hack" community has done, both indirectly AND directly)? Not crickets, but actually WORSE than crickets - ignorance of the capabilities in the Apple hardware base. If Microsoft displayed even a TENTH of that attitude, they would have been reamed, then discarded like a used paper towel - yet Apple is forgiven for it. (Microsoft gets chewed out on a daily basis for actually daring to support MORE hardware with each new OS release - despite not neglecting the base hardware in the least; there is, after all, a reason WHY I'm actually able to run the most recent beta of desktop Windows on nearly ten year old - Vista-era - hardware.) Tjarboe and DConnell 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Norris Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 For me it's the "it just works" factor. For example, my current desktop is still running 7. Installed it once when it hit RTM, hasn't choked yet. No blue screens, no fiddling, no wrestling to get stuff going, none of that Win-rot nonsense, no "wish they made a driver for this", no registry disasters, pretty much any program I can think of is available, random stuff from over 15 years ago still runs and yes it is customizable. Come a long way since the messy XP days. This install is ~5 years old, and it works as good as it did on day one.. it was fun messing around when I was a kid and had time to spare, nowadays not so much. User dumbassery excluded of course, but *shrug* a clueless person can wreck any desktop OS, I've had to fix them all in one form or another. A bunch of features in 8 I like, but with 10 so close, I'll wait. Digging HyperV on my Server 2012R2 boxes, so can't wait for that on the 10 desktop too. The other thing that I like is the sane dual monitor functionality; it's not perfect as in flexibility (well, there's an addon for that), but if I park a program on the second display, I know exactly where it'll start the next time I run it; right where I left it. I swear some desktops flip a virtual coin. xrobwx71 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Windows 8: Improved file explorer UI with more options Improved file transfer dialog with speed graph Proper multimonitor taskbar and wallpaper support Built in .iso mounting and burning Better task manager with more info OSD volume controls/display Built in Hyper-V (previously only avalible in server releases) Please note: however it is a bit stripped down Brandon H, +E.Worm Jimmy and xrobwx71 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Overlord Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 7, I've not found anything I don't like about it, so all of it for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceelf Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 ?Windows Runtime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Active. Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 1 Aero Snap can be rather useful. 2 Folder thumbnails 3 Even though I'm not the biggest fan of equating an app's window with the app itself, it seems to avoid a lot of confusion for people when compared with e.g. OS X where you might close every web browser window and yet it will continue to run. ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whs37 Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Libraries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spy beef Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 win7 task bar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x-scratch Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 ripping/burning only reason i am with windows & not linux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MS Bob 11 Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Explorer auto sorting my files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUTZIFER Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Internet Explorer. If Internet Explorer ran on Android, I'd just use Android. Sometimes on my Android tablet I use the Microsoft RD Client app just so I can use Internet Explorer instead of Chrome. And by the way, I've tried every browser for Android, and they all suck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aergan Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 mstsc.exe siah1214 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Raze Subscriber² Posted January 3, 2015 Subscriber² Share Posted January 3, 2015 The screensavers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siah1214 Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Hyper V is awesome, and I love the convenience of "Start > type" Especially in Windows 8, it lets me start apps, launch stuff I've pinned, play albums, open files...it's awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGHammer Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 For me it's the "it just works" factor. For example, my current desktop is still running 7. Installed it once when it hit RTM, hasn't choked yet. No blue screens, no fiddling, no wrestling to get stuff going, none of that Win-rot nonsense, no "wish they made a driver for this", no registry disasters, pretty much any program I can think of is available, random stuff from over 15 years ago still runs and yes it is customizable. Come a long way since the messy XP days. This install is ~5 years old, and it works as good as it did on day one.. it was fun messing around when I was a kid and had time to spare, nowadays not so much. User dumbassery excluded of course, but *shrug* a clueless person can wreck any desktop OS, I've had to fix them all in one form or another. A bunch of features in 8 I like, but with 10 so close, I'll wait. Digging HyperV on my Server 2012R2 boxes, so can't wait for that on the 10 desktop too. The other thing that I like is the sane dual monitor functionality; it's not perfect as in flexibility (well, there's an addon for that), but if I park a program on the second display, I know exactly where it'll start the next time I run it; right where I left it. I swear some desktops flip a virtual coin. The only reason you can't is due to EPT - period. Merely upgrading to any CPU that supports EPT (which is a lot of Intel and AMD CPUs, to be honest) fixes that lack. Rather amusingly, there are more AMD CPUs (especially on the lowest end) that support EPT than on the Intel side. For example, the biggest advantage of Fusion (the rather infamously underperforming AMD E) is built-in EPT (therefore built-in Hyper-V) on any Windows platform that supports Hyper-V - desktop OR server. That is more than I can say about my current Core 2 Quad Q6600 - basically the desktop equivalent of the XEON X3300 - it only supports Hyper-V in the server flavors of Windows (which will itself go away going forward, as the server flavors will mirror the desktop flavors in the EPT requirement for Hyper-V). Fortunately, EPT in Intel CPUs will be following VT-x in ubiquity; the biggest example is, in fact the Pentium Anniversary Edition, AKA PentiumG3258 - in addition to being extremely OC-friendly, it also features EPT support - it is, in fact, the first non I-series from Intel to support EPT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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