Windows Phone was actually good. There were no ads, it was extremely fast, responsive and user friendly. I still have a Windows Phone, but it's useless due to the servers being down.
@@Daodat5656 Android _kinda_ does? But it's dependent on OEM and Skin, it's not default behavior. I know Samsung was experimenting with them a while back and some Chinese brands definitely do, but these are exceptions and not the rule
I agree windows phone is good It was very hated mainly because it used the metro ui It's kinda sad because I liked the metro ui I have windows 8.1 and windows 8 RTM dual booted
To be honest, I am one of few people who actually enjoyed using Windows 8 in general regardless of whether it's RTM or 8.1. Mainly because it was in my experience it was an extremely stable system and I rarely ever encountered any BSODs or lock ups. Unlike with some of my past experiences with Windows 7 and XP, where the system would BSOD or lock up quite often out of no where and without any warning. There again I think that was mainly due to driver issues and wasn't really the fault of the OSes themselves. Other than my experience with Windows 8 being really good, I like the idea that Microsoft went for. Whilst it doesn't suit a desktop OS, it's really not even that hard to use once you get used to it. I actually had been using Windows 8 as main OS since 2013. Although I pretty much moved on to using Windows 10 as my main OS now, officially as of this year. Although in a few years, i'll eventually have to move onto Windows 11.
Windows 8 proves that you can have all the cloud services (live tiles, windows store, onedrive) that newer operating systems do and still have it run well
@@KofolaDealer well any cloud service (e.g One Drive) could technically run on Windows 7 and maybe Windows Vista. However some cloud services are exclusive to Metro a.k.a UWP (e.g Microsoft Store) and will only work on Windows 8 or newer. As for live tiles, they were mainly for mobile versions of Windows and Windows 8 but they were kept in Windows 10.
Great video. I have a 8.1 touchscreen Alienware lying around somewhere. It needs some care before I run it again but honestly on a touchscreen, it's not that bad.
The windows phone was a good idea. It has a unique UI, like windows 8, and they had good ideas. They were supposed to all link together, along with your Xbox I believe. It’s a shame it never worked.
Except for the fact that wsservice_crk which allowed you to sideload unsigned Store apps was patched by Microsoft in 8.1. And there's no way of sideloading Metro apps on regular SKUs of 8.1 without them breaking.
@@bagasangga8.1 added a _lot_ of QOL features that 8 should have released with, they drastically improved the user experience. Small and Large tile sizes A much better All Apps menu The option to boot straight to the Desktop The addition of the Power Menu to the Start Screen A proper context menu on the Start Screen A title bar that lets you minimize and close Metro apps The option to have Metro Apps in the taskbar The option to snap up to 4 apps at once Improved built-in apps There was a lot done to make it feel way better to use and it's honestly really good
Wow I never realized how much of windows 8 I forgot about, I think my brain blocked all memories of it because I absolutely hated having to upgrade to it from windows 7 at the time
That was cool showing Windows 8 instead of Windows 8.1, I think a lot of programs stopped supported 8 but still support 8.1 so might be worth looking at 8.1 one day too
8.1 is my favorite version of Windows, it was much lighter than 10 and could pretty easily be made to work more or less the same as 7 if need be. It really was great on a tablet especially, the touch experience, gestures, and animations are somehow _still_ better than both 10 and 11 It was also the seemingly the last time they had an actual QA team to fix bugs, 10.and 11 have so many inexplicable jitters and small bugs that just don't really happen to me on 7 and 8.
Thank you for doing 8 instead of 8.1 like everyone else. To me Windows 8.1 was pretty much Windows 10. Nothing set it apart. But 8 was different, and I really liked that about it.
Nice video man. On a full screen Metro app with a mouse and keyboard, it felt really dumb clicking at the top of the window and dragging it all the way down to close an app. On a touchscreen device like the Surface Pro or Surface RT, it makes a lot more sense swiping down with your finger. I feel as if the Start Screen makes so much more sense on a tablet as well. Would be cool if there was a small comeback of Windows 8 on something like the ROG Ally or Steam Deck. I never liked the traditional Windows UI on a tablet lol
@@12pearcj I loved 8.1 on tablets. I just wish the hybrid tablet/laptop concept had taken off and gotten support. As it is, the vision has been almost entirely abandoned.
microsoft is making the same mistake as windows 8 on windows 11, designing things to be touchscreen friendly & forcing that on desktop users. the amount of unnecessary padding and removal of anything compact is insanely annoying. they removed the option for a small taskbar (they also made the taskbar ~10px taller than win10), they bloated all the ui elements and gave them a billion percent more padding and rounding, spaced everything apart, generally everything is a waste of screen space. look how fucking massive the start menu is lol
That's weird, Minecraft 1.20.4 installed perfectly for me just a few months ago. Ooh, another thing you could try is Blender. Windows 7 lost OFFICIAL-support and updates became 3rd party on git-hub. Windows 8 still fully supports modern Blender and no signs of cutting it off.
I loved Windows Phone 7/8/10 , their problem was the lack of development for apps. But besides the most snappy interface , was quick , was different from what iOS or Android would give. And it worked really well , even on the low-end Lumia Phones
Oh I can personally tell you what Windows 8 can do. A lot of things Windows 7 has completely left out: USB 3 drivers during installation, UEFI on 64 bit versions, NVME, Secure Boot, Turing Nvenc, and even supports more games... If Steam hadn't removed Windows 7&8 from support that is. That is unfortunate because I was wanting to play Doom Eternal on Windows 7 on my AMD APU. Oh well, Windows 10 will suffice for at least the testing portion before I switch over to Windows 8.1 with the Windows 7 B450 chipset.
I love Windows 8, it is so streamlined and visually appealing. Interaction with existing programs and apps was so streamlined. The problem is the users, they didn't get this work of art.
I "upgraded" to 8.1 back in the Spring of 2014 and I find it bad because I (and many others) did everything we could to make it more like 7 with tools like Classic Shell. It was pretty much a slightly more modern looking Windows 7 after that though. I ignored pretty much all the Metro (full screen) apps since they were pretty much all awful. Early 2010s really was a weird time... all about tablets and everyone thought they would eventually succeed laptops altogether.
Minority view here, but I loved Windows 8.1 on tablets and convertible devices. I know, I know, I must be a freak, right? But there was a small community of us out here who were fans of the OS. In some ways, it was the best interface for tablets, certainly for tablets in the 8-12 inch range. The bottom line is, I was totally on board with the vision of merging the full functionality of a laptop/desktop with the form factor and interface of a tablet. This was the vision driving Windows 8.1 and the early iterations of Windows 10. It makes me sad to see that Windows has abandoned this endeavor. Some of the Galaxy tablets have come close to making the merger a reality, but Android apps still lag way behind their Windows counterparts if you want full-blown functionality.
For anybody looking for the mouse fix for vmware:Edit > Preferences > Input, and from here change "Optimize mouse for games" from Automatic to Always. At least this is how it is in workstation 15. This will ensure that the cursor stays inside the vm, and you'll have to use ctrl+alt to get out.
so basically kinda like windows 7 you can install security updates until 2023 (no esu) some softwares ended support for windows 7 earlier before windows 8 and uhh yeah I think that's it, overall a less bloated version of windows 10
It had some issues, but I liked using Windows 8 overall. Granted, I didn’t use the apps, but desktop software and there was a learning curve on how to find power user functionality. Still, it worked fine for me, overall.
The theme engine contrast part still here in win 11 you need to do sift print screen (it is possibl eto changw which contrast is used) it is now classed as an eacceability feature
Windows 8 and 8.1 were so bad that every time Windows forced me to do a major system update, it broke my laptop more and more with each update. Was super annoying having to run back updates every time I was auto forced to update to something that broke half my programs.
the theme engine is still a thing in windows 10. you can enable it in the personalization options under colors. for some reason they decided to make accent colors not apply by default
You can also restore all of the personalization control panel pages using Winaero Tweaker and use that as well. However while they still function like they did in Windows 8 and 7, They are abit bugged out and open in separate windows.
I used win 8 for 2 years back then because my company laptop had it installed, it wasn't bad at all you can use it like windows 7 everything works like windows 7 once you got used to the new HUD and navigation 😅
To be honest i think i am the only person in the world who liked windows 8. Now i am using windows 10 but genuinely i loved 8 and if i had the chance to go back to it I'll definitely go cause i've been thinking to install it again but i am lazy as hell 😂
If Steam is pushing the Linux route because people don't want to upgrade to a newer Windows then I have about had it with Valve and at this point would rather go back to Windows 7 or stay on Windows 10 because Windows 11 is starting to suck real bad with Microsoft deprecating the hell out of key features that make Windows useful. You can't even move the start menu at the top anymore after Windows 10 I might just switch to Linux Mint Cinnamon and strongly debating on it if Microsoft continues to deprecate useful software consider me a Linux user in the near future don't upgrade to Windows 11 I just used it and went straight back to Windows 10 I think Windows 10 will be the LAST WINDOWS I EVER USE and I am not joking all the useful shit in Windows 10 is gone on Windows 11 man what ever you guys do please don't upgrade I can't even pull the start menu to the top and hide it so I can run virtual machine making it a pain in the ass to use Windows 10 will be the last good Windows provided by Microsoft.
There's only rare few videos on RUclips mobile that can be played in background without the premium subscription and this video of yours is one of them haha
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Windows Phone was actually good. There were no ads, it was extremely fast, responsive and user friendly. I still have a Windows Phone, but it's useless due to the servers being down.
Wait what phone has ads
@@Zomboy4313 Android and iOS
@@Daodat5656 Android _kinda_ does? But it's dependent on OEM and Skin, it's not default behavior.
I know Samsung was experimenting with them a while back and some Chinese brands definitely do, but these are exceptions and not the rule
I agree windows phone is good
It was very hated mainly because it used the metro ui
It's kinda sad because I liked the metro ui
I have windows 8.1 and windows 8 RTM dual booted
To be honest, I am one of few people who actually enjoyed using Windows 8 in general regardless of whether it's RTM or 8.1. Mainly because it was in my experience it was an extremely stable system and I rarely ever encountered any BSODs or lock ups. Unlike with some of my past experiences with Windows 7 and XP, where the system would BSOD or lock up quite often out of no where and without any warning. There again I think that was mainly due to driver issues and wasn't really the fault of the OSes themselves. Other than my experience with Windows 8 being really good, I like the idea that Microsoft went for. Whilst it doesn't suit a desktop OS, it's really not even that hard to use once you get used to it.
I actually had been using Windows 8 as main OS since 2013. Although I pretty much moved on to using Windows 10 as my main OS now, officially as of this year. Although in a few years, i'll eventually have to move onto Windows 11.
Windows 8 proves that you can have all the cloud services (live tiles, windows store, onedrive) that newer operating systems do and still have it run well
@@KofolaDealer well any cloud service (e.g One Drive) could technically run on Windows 7 and maybe Windows Vista. However some cloud services are exclusive to Metro a.k.a UWP (e.g Microsoft Store) and will only work on Windows 8 or newer. As for live tiles, they were mainly for mobile versions of Windows and Windows 8 but they were kept in Windows 10.
@@Joshwoakes Well windows 8 had all of that and it's faster than windows 7. Windows 10/11's performance is inexcusably bad
Great video. I have a 8.1 touchscreen Alienware lying around somewhere. It needs some care before I run it again but honestly on a touchscreen, it's not that bad.
The windows phone was a good idea. It has a unique UI, like windows 8, and they had good ideas. They were supposed to all link together, along with your Xbox I believe. It’s a shame it never worked.
I think windows 8 deserved to be forgotten, windows 8.1 is just ultimately the better successor of it
Except for the fact that wsservice_crk which allowed you to sideload unsigned Store apps was patched by Microsoft in 8.1. And there's no way of sideloading Metro apps on regular SKUs of 8.1 without them breaking.
tbh, Windows 8.1 is the same thing as Windows 8.0. The only differences is the addition of start button & wallpaper.
@@bagasangga8.1 added a _lot_ of QOL features that 8 should have released with, they drastically improved the user experience.
Small and Large tile sizes
A much better All Apps menu
The option to boot straight to the Desktop
The addition of the Power Menu to the Start Screen
A proper context menu on the Start Screen
A title bar that lets you minimize and close Metro apps
The option to have Metro Apps in the taskbar
The option to snap up to 4 apps at once
Improved built-in apps
There was a lot done to make it feel way better to use and it's honestly really good
@@bagasangga I think 8.1 has less bugs and some extra features though... it's significantly better than 8 so i call it windows 9 lol
@@charliesretrocomputing "Windows 9" doesn't exist.
Wow I never realized how much of windows 8 I forgot about, I think my brain blocked all memories of it because I absolutely hated having to upgrade to it from windows 7 at the time
That was cool showing Windows 8 instead of Windows 8.1, I think a lot of programs stopped supported 8 but still support 8.1 so might be worth looking at 8.1 one day too
8.1 is my favorite version of Windows, it was much lighter than 10 and could pretty easily be made to work more or less the same as 7 if need be.
It really was great on a tablet especially, the touch experience, gestures, and animations are somehow _still_ better than both 10 and 11
It was also the seemingly the last time they had an actual QA team to fix bugs, 10.and 11 have so many inexplicable jitters and small bugs that just don't really happen to me on 7 and 8.
windows 8.1 was even faster and better than 7, i have old laptop which i still use sometimes for basic tasks and windows 8.1 is great.
Thank you for doing 8 instead of 8.1 like everyone else. To me Windows 8.1 was pretty much Windows 10. Nothing set it apart. But 8 was different, and I really liked that about it.
Nice video man. On a full screen Metro app with a mouse and keyboard, it felt really dumb clicking at the top of the window and dragging it all the way down to close an app. On a touchscreen device like the Surface Pro or Surface RT, it makes a lot more sense swiping down with your finger.
I feel as if the Start Screen makes so much more sense on a tablet as well. Would be cool if there was a small comeback of Windows 8 on something like the ROG Ally or Steam Deck. I never liked the traditional Windows UI on a tablet lol
@@12pearcj I loved 8.1 on tablets. I just wish the hybrid tablet/laptop concept had taken off and gotten support. As it is, the vision has been almost entirely abandoned.
microsoft is making the same mistake as windows 8 on windows 11, designing things to be touchscreen friendly & forcing that on desktop users. the amount of unnecessary padding and removal of anything compact is insanely annoying. they removed the option for a small taskbar (they also made the taskbar ~10px taller than win10), they bloated all the ui elements and gave them a billion percent more padding and rounding, spaced everything apart, generally everything is a waste of screen space. look how fucking massive the start menu is lol
I actually think it's alright for mouse and keyboard, but it's definitely designed for touchscreen, but at least it works well with that.
What's funny is that 11 doesn't even excel on tablets like 8 at the very least did.
@@thawkade Maybe it's for tablets with pens.
@@ConcavePgons I have a pen, it's not much better with it, it definitely isn't anyway considering they added a lot of multi finger gestures
and you cant change the size of the start menu either like you can on windows 10 ☠
That's weird, Minecraft 1.20.4 installed perfectly for me just a few months ago. Ooh, another thing you could try is Blender. Windows 7 lost OFFICIAL-support and updates became 3rd party on git-hub. Windows 8 still fully supports modern Blender and no signs of cutting it off.
I loved Windows Phone 7/8/10 , their problem was the lack of development for apps. But besides the most snappy interface , was quick , was different from what iOS or Android would give. And it worked really well , even on the low-end Lumia Phones
For shits and giggles imma put windows 8.1 on a future pc build I might make!
5:27 In Win8 Release Preview Aero is on by default, and the OS itself is free (the mechanism locking the OS is long broken).
Oh I can personally tell you what Windows 8 can do. A lot of things Windows 7 has completely left out: USB 3 drivers during installation, UEFI on 64 bit versions, NVME, Secure Boot, Turing Nvenc, and even supports more games... If Steam hadn't removed Windows 7&8 from support that is. That is unfortunate because I was wanting to play Doom Eternal on Windows 7 on my AMD APU. Oh well, Windows 10 will suffice for at least the testing portion before I switch over to Windows 8.1 with the Windows 7 B450 chipset.
I love Windows 8, it is so streamlined and visually appealing. Interaction with existing programs and apps was so streamlined. The problem is the users, they didn't get this work of art.
Don't know why but this video reminds me of Michael MJD
maybe the voice? his voice sounds similar!
@@bloxyarii You're kinda right they do
You're not the only one who skipped 8 and went to 10. Me too, and probably a lot of other people. I also skipped Vista and jumped from xp to 7.
I "upgraded" to 8.1 back in the Spring of 2014 and I find it bad because I (and many others) did everything we could to make it more like 7 with tools like Classic Shell. It was pretty much a slightly more modern looking Windows 7 after that though. I ignored pretty much all the Metro (full screen) apps since they were pretty much all awful.
Early 2010s really was a weird time... all about tablets and everyone thought they would eventually succeed laptops altogether.
got an old laptop and cant seem to get windows 10 installed on it so i needed this video, thank you
Minority view here, but I loved Windows 8.1 on tablets and convertible devices. I know, I know, I must be a freak, right? But there was a small community of us out here who were fans of the OS. In some ways, it was the best interface for tablets, certainly for tablets in the 8-12 inch range.
The bottom line is, I was totally on board with the vision of merging the full functionality of a laptop/desktop with the form factor and interface of a tablet. This was the vision driving Windows 8.1 and the early iterations of Windows 10. It makes me sad to see that Windows has abandoned this endeavor.
Some of the Galaxy tablets have come close to making the merger a reality, but Android apps still lag way behind their Windows counterparts if you want full-blown functionality.
and i love windows 8
yooo i requested this 🔥
For anybody looking for the mouse fix for vmware:Edit > Preferences > Input, and from here change "Optimize mouse for games" from Automatic to Always. At least this is how it is in workstation 15. This will ensure that the cursor stays inside the vm, and you'll have to use ctrl+alt to get out.
so basically kinda like windows 7
you can install security updates until 2023 (no esu)
some softwares ended support for windows 7 earlier before windows 8
and uhh yeah I think that's it, overall a less bloated version of windows 10
The Metro UI era (Windows 8/Windows Phone) was the best! I miss these times...
Yeah, and the animations in Windows 8 are so smoooth
It had some issues, but I liked using Windows 8 overall. Granted, I didn’t use the apps, but desktop software and there was a learning curve on how to find power user functionality. Still, it worked fine for me, overall.
Great Vid
The theme engine contrast part still here in win 11 you need to do sift print screen (it is possibl eto changw which contrast is used) it is now classed as an eacceability feature
Windows 8 and 8.1 were so bad that every time Windows forced me to do a major system update, it broke my laptop more and more with each update. Was super annoying having to run back updates every time I was auto forced to update to something that broke half my programs.
my nostalgia belongs to windows xp for disk based gaming and youtube on xp was special
Win8 and WP are my favourite desktop and mobile systems. So smooth and fast, on pretty much everything :(
the theme engine is still a thing in windows 10. you can enable it in the personalization options under colors. for some reason they decided to make accent colors not apply by default
You can also restore all of the personalization control panel pages using Winaero Tweaker and use that as well. However while they still function like they did in Windows 8 and 7, They are abit bugged out and open in separate windows.
Just recently got the win8 iso, its kinda cool if you use on the surface
I used win 8 for 2 years back then because my company laptop had it installed, it wasn't bad at all you can use it like windows 7 everything works like windows 7 once you got used to the new HUD and navigation 😅
I think the only chrome-based browser that still supports Win8 is yandex browser. Its latest version runs fine on Win8 rp.
I wish I could use windows 8.1 as my main os. I really like the sounds in the os.
To be honest i think i am the only person in the world who liked windows 8. Now i am using windows 10 but genuinely i loved 8 and if i had the chance to go back to it I'll definitely go cause i've been thinking to install it again but i am lazy as hell 😂
Windows 8 is still way better than Windows 11 yet less ugly and buggy.
It wasn't bad. It just had a bad concept for the start menu.
I used it for years on my Media Centre PC, with fewer problems than with Windows 7.
If Steam is pushing the Linux route because people don't want to upgrade to a newer Windows then I have about had it with Valve and at this point would rather go back to Windows 7 or stay on Windows 10 because Windows 11 is starting to suck real bad with Microsoft deprecating the hell out of key features that make Windows useful. You can't even move the start menu at the top anymore after Windows 10 I might just switch to Linux Mint Cinnamon and strongly debating on it if Microsoft continues to deprecate useful software consider me a Linux user in the near future don't upgrade to Windows 11 I just used it and went straight back to Windows 10 I think Windows 10 will be the LAST WINDOWS I EVER USE and I am not joking all the useful shit in Windows 10 is gone on Windows 11 man what ever you guys do please don't upgrade I can't even pull the start menu to the top and hide it so I can run virtual machine making it a pain in the ass to use Windows 10 will be the last good Windows provided by Microsoft.
superium still work based on chromium
Superium is a port\clone of newer chrome versions intended for unsupported OSes. So it will work regardless.
i grew up with windows 8. i love it, but i have to admit it confused me as a kid lmao
for minecraft the legacy launcher should work but if it doesnt you can use multimc or prism launcher
There's only rare few videos on RUclips mobile that can be played in background without the premium subscription and this video of yours is one of them haha
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what are you yapping about?
Was saying ur video is cool af
@@eobardthawnemcoc Oh Thanks didn't know what you meant at first. Glad you enjoyed!!
I think I am only person that skiped Winowds 10.
As a person who daily drives windows 8 for everything except for editing and gaming, I'll say it's a completely usable OS as of 2024.
There is still word pad on windows 11
watcing this video on my old dell study laptop with windows 8.1 xD
you should install video drivers it would work better
Does it have wii sports resort?
No
I don’t know why hating Windows 8. In my opinion I like Windows 8 rtm but not 8.1 cause the thing I like is the start screen and metro tiles.
i am still running it
Windows 8, i couldn't stand it. 8.1, 2nd favorite
All but the start menu, you had everything 7 had and not the bs 10 brought
I never use windows 8 which i hate this has no logo win but instead used old laptop windows 8.1 with win logo bottom, like it
WordPad is still in Windows 11
I am now using 8.1
Where can one find an iso for Windows 8???
I use Windows. 8.2 (The first windows 10 beta) and it’s really good, plus I get the start menu and windowed metro apps if I want
@@Zomboy4313 please explain. What is this, how did you get it, and is it still supported?
Never seen tabler modei windows,11
I only liked the animations and the sounds of windows 8/8.1
I like windows 7 much better
you literally have not use windows 11? why?
Windows 8 was the first OS I ever used because my moms Acer had it installed.
my friend mains a 8
yummy
Play fortnite
@Gabbesnabbe No thank you that game's boring
fortnite doesn't works on any windows 8 variation
i loved windows 7.