Hello I Have A Relatively Simple Question RE: WIN 8, Is Win 8.1 Like 7

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I currently had vista and I played around with 7 for a couple of months and its vista on steroids some impotents some sugar to make ppl happy but not revolutionary. I've never see 8 or 8.1 and I read a lot that its really designed for tablets not desktops I though the 8.1 came out to placate the ppl pissed off they didn’t get a desktop OS. My question is if it's possible in 8.1 to make it look and act like 7 for the most part (The wild card are additional features and improvements to the code to make it boot faster and have some other sweets like in 7 you can have your back round swap from one pic to another. So are there any performance improvements to get 8.1 and can you make it act like 7 meaning having a desktop and have for the most part the availability to change the setting and set 8.1 into a 7 desktop with desktop icons and all that. (It's pretty retarded to MS to put out an OS that is pretty much strictly geared towards hand held table and especially since MS docent even heave great products in the market guess they are hoping they can emulate googles' OS. What I totally don’t get is that they would make it where average pc users don’t comfy and can use it like the previous version like 7. Would really love your input since I'm about to start a build and need to know if I should but 7 professional or 8.1, the only prob I have is I don’t want to buy seven then find out in 2-3 yrs they will drop support, I doubt it will happen that fast and I don’t know the features but id imagine 8.1 is faster and a better OS but with MS you never know I got millennium and I still have nightmares after that lol, can you turn the tile off and simple have the same desktop as in 7 and what is the biggest difference between vista and 7 that you can't disable or change.

Thanks,
Sebastian
 
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Well, as with any OS, they will eventually drop support, but I'm pretty sure that with the high penetration and retention of Win7 in business and home environments it'll be supported for a fairly long time. That being said, Win8/8.1 really is geared towards a tablet/touch system, and it really doesn't offer much in the way of a speed/performance advantage over Win7. Now, you can tweak the shell to make it (Win8) emulate Win7, but it's kind of a kludge.

So - to recap: It's not really any faster (if at all). Win7 will have support for several more years at minimum (heck they just ended support for XP!). Making Win8 act like Win7 is a bandaid, might as well just install Win7 and be done with it.

And if you want fast boot times, just...

Rookie_MIB

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Well, as with any OS, they will eventually drop support, but I'm pretty sure that with the high penetration and retention of Win7 in business and home environments it'll be supported for a fairly long time. That being said, Win8/8.1 really is geared towards a tablet/touch system, and it really doesn't offer much in the way of a speed/performance advantage over Win7. Now, you can tweak the shell to make it (Win8) emulate Win7, but it's kind of a kludge.

So - to recap: It's not really any faster (if at all). Win7 will have support for several more years at minimum (heck they just ended support for XP!). Making Win8 act like Win7 is a bandaid, might as well just install Win7 and be done with it.

And if you want fast boot times, just get a SSD for your boot drive. :)
 
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