I agree about Phones with 8.1 - I bought a couple of Lumia 635 for under £20 each in mint condition the other week. I had been avoiding becomeing a mobile zombie but after a near breakdown fiasco in the summer decided I needed some thing better than my Nokia 106 feature phone. Must say my Lumia 635 is a fine device and shame that Windows phone is dead. I ask you would you use an PC operating sustem whose updates have to come from either the maker or your isp? thats what Android is? I have Windows 8.1 desktop with media center and that again is a good system ( you dont need to use the tiles , get Start8 or the free alternative, classic shell is it? )adam1991 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 05, 2018 12:31 amWhile generally I agree with that, I must say that Windows 8 (8.1?) was an absolutely superb operating system for a phone. I needed a phone quickly, and decided to try Windows--and did so with a fairly low end phone. And frankly, overall and from a business perspective it remains one of my fondest technology purchases. I sincerely wish Android could be configured to do some things that Win8 did right out of the box.dejavux2 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 08, 2018 8:57 pm Any Windows OS after 7 makes me cringe.....
Microsoft really dropped the ball, and didn't realize what they had. WMC was ahead of it's time....seriously....because look at all of the digital content/streaming that's going on now. They could have been the TOP player in this media frenzy....if they only knew what they already had.
(Of course, I had not used Windows 8 on a desktop at that point--I had no need to. To this day I've seen it in a very limited fashion. A machine controller I sell came with Win8, and while it was mostly hidden in the background, every now and then I had to use the UI--and as good as it was for my phone, it was that bad for a desktop.)
I will be using Media Center until the pcs stop working ( I have 3 so well set up for the long term ) as with the media browser plugin & Antec infrared controller it is hard to beat?