Mrs T Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 We have just bought a new pc with windows 8. Apart from it being different in geting rid of unwanted displays it fails miserably in understanding English culture ! That of "Playing Cards" an ancient tradition in households of the English the world over. There is no 'FreeCell' card game ... NONE and NOTHING LIKE IT. Thats all we played. There were 50,000 different arrangements. Now there are NONE. Disaster !! We are sending the strongest message to Microsoft in Washington that they have degraded the English culture and we object. Please advise all your friends to complain and preferably DO NOT BUY A WINDOWS 8 for its Anti English Mr & Mrs T ... We are annoyed !!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minicamper Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Found it! We have Windows 8, installed by geeky son, and we have Freecell and Spider and a few other card games. So they are there, if you enable or install or whatever the jargon is -somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malc d Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Well I've always regarded ' spellcheck ' as anti-English, but no-one seems to complain about that. :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JudgeMental Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 We just got a new PC in January and my son urged me to NOT get a windows 8 as they are crap...made me watch about 3 you tube videos where the system gets rubbished...was enought to convince me!lol now have a lightening fast windows 7 PC and very happy with it..Touch screen on a PC, what's that about! I'm writing this on an iPad but on a PC...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs T Posted February 22, 2013 Author Share Posted February 22, 2013 Then you should complain about spellcheck. Regarding a complaint or 'Feedback' all these designers think they are doing it all wondefully well if they get no complaints. Thats why Ebay is so brilliant at its job because any one can make a comment. The Americans are usually very quick at adjusting from our experience so you must always say your piece. Call it what you like but if you don't they will continue in their old ways. Regarding Minicampers suggestion we will look for it. Thanks but our complaint will still go to Reading and Washington, they have also omitted the Gadget Clock, a most usefull gadget when always on top, now we have to do other operations in order to see the time, another no good idea. MT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs T Posted February 22, 2013 Author Share Posted February 22, 2013 As often happens these modern systems are written by people who have never had a life and think they are Gods Gift to society MT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs T Posted February 22, 2013 Author Share Posted February 22, 2013 Well there you go, if our Eddie makes a comment and he's usually about right, that's your answer to Windows 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donna miller Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 If your spellchecker isn't working right then you've probably forgot to set your language to English (UK) as the default setting is English (US). Any we all know that the Shermans dont speak proper Englund like what we do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs T Posted February 22, 2013 Author Share Posted February 22, 2013 But they still do not know English phrasing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malc d Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 donna miller - 2013-02-22 9:42 AM If your spellchecker isn't working right then you've probably forgot to set your language to English (UK) as the default setting is English (US). A couple of hundred years ago, if you stole a loaf of bread, you would be transported to Australia - - -- if you couldn't spell, you were transported to America. That's how it all got started. I never use spellchecker so I'm not really worried what language they use, it's just a bit irritating when some foreigners tell you your spelling is incorrect.. It's like someone who can't count telling you your sums are wrong. :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 1footinthegrave Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Sorry to hear of another Win8 casualty. :-( It is crap to find your way around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wooie Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 That`s why the new Laptop i`m using now has Windows 7, because Windows 8 is crap. The salesman in P C World wasn`t very happy that i didn`t buy the one he recommended with 8 on it but it`s my money and i`ll spend it on what i want ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Dave Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 There are some free games with windows 8 the games are tucked away in the Windows Games Store and are free to install, i'm not sure if they are what you want but i suggest you have a look. Windows 8 is rubbish i agree and i wouldn't be surprised if the desktop start button is re-instated in the next version. It seems Microsoft have abandoned the desktop format in favour of the touchscreen tablet a silly move in my opinion. but as they are moving towards a fully app based system anything can happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nowtelse2do Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 I was told that 8 was cr*p, lot of complaints on other forum's about it *-) Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donna miller Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 I agree that Windows 8 is not the best but most problems are occuring because it's totally different from anything PC users are used to, the same was said about Win7 when it came out, so give it time. And as for Mrs T's comment that they don't know English phrasing; erm, Microsoft are American, Windows is developed by Microsoft therefore is biased towards their home market. *-) Just as software developed here is predominately based on our language and mannerisms, so is theirs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs T Posted February 22, 2013 Author Share Posted February 22, 2013 We do find that in general windows 8 works fine for us. Our main gripe is tne FreeCell game and the loss of the gadget clock that was usueful to be seen all the time when working. Regarding the new Start up feature. We never use it, we move everything that we normaly use onto the green display panel and use it from there like all the original windows display icons. We have the cheapest HP that we could find plus an HP All in one Printer. Within the hour of starting it was damaged by virus's, we contacted their customer services, the PC was then taken over and controlled by the US team. They cleared every virus and checked all systems, it took 3 hours and it was all free. Just thought of another source to make a complaint. We have made our complaint to Microsoft and we await a result. Mrs T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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