Dont Forget about the UX experience of the ones w/o Win10

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Hi,

I was an user of OD several years ago and I now mostly use Fences, Star8 and ModernMIx.

To be frank, I upgraded all my computers to Win10 when given the chance and now I went back with all to Win8 Pro and Win7 Pro. The constant, uncontrollable updates were enough to cloud an otherwise nice new Windows.

All my laptops have 8GB or more Ram and SSD disks, and they were all so slow, got stuck, were left ON at night and by the next day it had reeboted on its own by one of the stealth updates that you can not control.

In those conditions, unfortunately, I got to weight the stability of my laptop inventory vrs. having the latest. I think Win10 is great, but not at the expense of letting go the control of when to update my computer..... The results were very annoying.

Anyway, I keep using Win8Pro with Star8, Fences and ModernMix, but I am wondering if there is a way for us "left behind" to improve completely the UX, mimicking some of the good stuff of win 10.

I have gladly seen the development of Win10 compatibility for Stardock, but my piece of feedback is just "Not to forget those who do not wish to move to 10, for whatever reason" Try to have new options for the ones in the older platforms.

 

Thank you, best regards and keep the good work.

 

Otto

San Jose, Costa Rica.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

What in Win10 would you like to see?

Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top

I think he's asking that SD not forget those of us on Win7 & Win8, ZubaZ.  That development not be devoted entirely to Win10.  The market will tell SD what to focus on, but that's what he's asking if I read him right.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Ah.  I read it as "Win 7/8 people want Win10 features."

Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top

We may both be right.  :grin:

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Hi, What I meant is both.... Don't get me wrong, I like Win 10, I think MS did research and heard users this time, so the UX in Win10 is more geared towards what user wants. But, to me, the constant upgrades and reboots (perhaps only for the free "beta-testing" for 1 year.... >:( ) was a showstopper. I might give it a try in a year or 2, or when our new laptops already come with Win10Pro or Enterprise. But for now, we are sticking with Win 7 Pro or 8.1 Pro depending on the computers's original OS.

In that context, what I am saying is that SD should not forget that many of us will remain for awhile in those OSs and that development should provide to these "legacy users" - if it is a good business - I think it is - applications that mimic some of the Win10 nice features or the looks while allowing them to retain the consistency and stability of the old OSes.

Hope this clarifies, so I think both of you were correct  ^_^

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

As far as I know, SD continues it's support of the 3 main versions of Windows namely 7, 8, and 10. 5*

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Exyge_SysAdmin, reply 5

In that context, what I am saying is that SD should not forget that many of us will remain for awhile in those OSs and that development should provide to these "legacy users" - if it is a good business - I think it is - applications that mimic some of the Win10 nice features or the looks while allowing them to retain the consistency and stability of the old OSes.

Hope this clarifies, so I think both of you were correct  ^_^

 

I think you will be surprised that SD never try to embellish backwards for old OSes because it's a small margins on that which is not a viable business.  Having said that,there were some amateurs may do that,albeit come with irreparable/unstable consequences.        

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Exyge_SysAdmin, reply 5

applications that mimic some of the Win10 nice features
For example . . . ?

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

Just a note. I was also upset with the Windows 10 auto updating and waking up my computer to do it and found a solution that isn't the best but it works for me. If you search on the internet you can find this solution. You have to schedule a job that runs every hour or day and shuts off the auto update. It is a bit tedious, but it works. Eventually you will update, but it is on your schedule. This isn't part of Windows 10. But it may be a way you can use Windows 10 and all of the features of the Stardock products for W10.

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting WST2, reply 9

Just a note. I was also upset with the Windows 10 auto updating and waking up my computer to do it and found a solution that isn't the best but it works for me. If you search on the internet you can find this solution. You have to schedule a job that runs every hour or day and shuts off the auto update. It is a bit tedious, but it works. Eventually you will update, but it is on your schedule. This isn't part of Windows 10. But it may be a way you can use Windows 10 and all of the features of the Stardock products for W10.

More simply re the Anniversary Update....which is a bigger issue than 'just' an ordinary update you can nobble it by listing your net connection as 'metered'.