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Originally Posted by Delgar
I bought and installed Windows 8 on my Windows 7 machine just now and after about 3 hours of screwing around regret it.
Microsoft has made some very basic things very hard to do (making google your default search engine in place of Bing, installing firefox). Many other problems abound. Have a shaw mail account? Good luck!
Also, even the firefox and chrome browers now run incredibly slow, once you figure out how to install them. Its like going back a decade.
I'm going to slug it through as I see a lot of potential for Windows 8, but right now I'm not so happy being an early adopter.
I had the pre-release installed on a differernt computer, but didn't try to make everything on it work like I actually use my computer, so I shouldn't be surprised now I have problems.
In short, wait. The upgrade has been a difficult experience even for someone who thought they knew what they were getting into.
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None of this post makes any sense to me and I have been running Win 8 for about a week now. You install Firefox and Chrome the exact same way you did in Win 7 - download inside IE10 and run. Next, next,next, finish. To set your default browser, go into the settings of the one you want and click the "make x my default browser" button. Am I missing something?
And your comment about the upgrade being tough is really out there. We have upgraded probably a dozen pc's/laptops at work and 40 minutes later they are back working. This was easily the best upgrade experience from a Windows OS that I have ever seen.
The REAL annoying things I have found so far are the lack of a recently opened file list and it takes like 4 clicks to shut down your computer. Also, you really need to learn the keyboard shortcuts to use this OS efficiently, which seems counter-intuitive to me.
Honestly though, I am starting to like Windows 8 after a week of getting used to it.