Funny how you keep saying "move with the times", yet I've already stated I've used W8 extensively..... I'm not going to keep repeating myself, you just look like a... well, I'll let other readers fill in that blank for repeatedly saying "move with the times" as your main argument. You also more or less fully backtracked on your first post with this post, going from totally disagreeing with that I summarised to pretty much fully agreeing when I made a more extensive post.. I'll leave that at that. W8 sales may be higher, but I'll bet anything you want those W8 sales figures include also the sales of Windows phone and Windows tablet as well as new desktops and laptops, W7 was for desktops and laptops not phones and tablets as well. Take the phone and tablet sales away I bet W8 sales figures are worse than W7s. MS also say they have reduced upgrade prices of W8 compared to what the upgrade cost of W7 was, aside from that being a form of "cheat" to boost sales, can you imagine if W7 had the same upgrade price of W8? No doubt sales for W7 upgrades would of been even higher because everyone loves W7. You also have to think about volume sales, if somewhere like Walmart buys 10,000 licenses MS count all of those as "sales" even if those licenses are all just sitting on a shelf somewhere. Then you also have to think about all the desktops / laptops sold with W8 pre-installed, that will be "downgraded" to a copy of W7, those desktops / laptops will still be counted as "sales" even though they won't be running W8 but W7, just because W8 was pre-installed. If MS released actual number of activations for W8 figures, they would tell a very different story. Oh and just to hammer this home, I tried buying some copies of W7 from MS to upgrade some work machines, they won't allow that. I HAVE to buy W8 then "downgrade" to W7. All those "sales" of W8 would still be counted even though the systems will be running W7. As for the boot speed and DX11.1 arguments... they are weak arguments at best. Compare a fresh install of W7 then take that same system and compare a fresh install of W8.. boot time differences will be minimal to none, DX11.1? Thats the same scenario as DX10 vs. DX10.1. Did you see any differences with DX10.1 vs DX10? Me neither, the same is true of DX11 vs. DX11.1. Here is also a professional analysis of W8; http://www.useit.com/alertbox/windows-8.htmlOriginally Posted by zoomee
ahahaha!! - Microsoft wished I worked for them
In all honesty dude, I agree with you about most aspects, but a couple of tweaks and I find its more than good enough as a replacement for Windows 7 (price was my main factor in upgrading!). In fact recent sales figures prove its more popular than Windows 7 was! :
Source: http://www.dailytech.com/Windows+8+B...ticle29288.htm
Like I said - whether you or I like it or not, its Microsoft's next operating system and its here to stay unfortunately. Without getting into tit for tat conversation regarding the operating system (simple advantages are speed and dx11.1 compatibility over W7 for a start, and yes I acknowledge a requirement to slightly retrain staff etc for business use - but this is what consumer computing is about) - learn to move with the times old man :p
ASRock should be providing up to date operating system drivers - If they simply optimise their existing W7 drivers and take advantage of the new functionality of W8 (Fast boot for example) it will ensure customer loyalty in future and show a commitment to supporting their range of products.
Every other component in my PC (which requires a driver) has had a new driver released, BUT my mainboard which is actually one of the most important bits, i'm sure you'll agree.
Anyway, this is all I will say on this matter because its dragging the thread from its purpose - to help asrock MB owners.
Asrock also offer W8 drivers on their website for a lot of their boards, older boards may not get the drivers updated on the Asrock site for W8 drivers but finding W8 drivers for the hardware the board uses is as stupidly simple as its always been - just look in the user manual and google the hardware you have with "windows 8 driver" added to the search term. Alternatively you could always visit some Z77 board driver download pages on the asrock site as a lot of harware from the P67 Extreme4 through to the Z77 Extreme6 is the same. If you don't want to do that, just visit somewhere like station drivers where I'm sure you'll find drivers for all the hardware your board uses. Bare in mind there will be some manufacturers of some hardware that may not currently have W8 drivers or W8 specific drivers may not be released as theres no need for it because the W7 driver works perfectly fine with W8.
^^ This here, is the majority of users opinion. We are not alone by any stretch of the imagination
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