The Dalty-Cave has broadband!!

[Dalty]

I am online! Finally!!!

But there is a downside. My new shiny laptop....... has WINDOWS FUCKING 8!!!

What a pile of total fucking dog shit it is. Fucking terrible. Seriously, seriously terrible. And IE10, for fucks sake! There is a special place in hell reserved for the compete cunt who thought this was a good idea.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

IE10's not bad. The people who continue to shit on IE probably haven't used it since IE7.

I don't use it much, but I don't have a problem with it when I do.

[Dalty]

Back to the shop tomorrow with the reason being that is is an unusable pile of fucking excrement and I am buying a Mac.

Is it fucking difficult to provide a ducking Home button on your browser? Microsoft think so.

[Quasar]

I have a home button on my IE browser. It looks like a little house.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Do you mean the Start menu, Dalty?

Did people really use it that much, or are they just freaking out because something they're used to seeing there is no longer there?

Before you give up entirely on Windows 8, go here:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/wind ... start-menu

[Dalty]

I am down with the start menu. It's the home button on IE10 or lack thereof. It's the chippy little tiles. It's the Microsoft account tie. It's the way it handles plug ins like my Citrix receiver so I can log in to the office from home.

The whole thing is a fucking travesty.

[Space Tycoon]

Oh quit whining, moneybags. Some of us got real problems.

I'm off to the pub. No problem there.

Except there is.

[Mal Shot First]

IE10's not bad. The people who continue to shit on IE probably haven't used it since IE7.

I've used IE8 and I wish it could load a goddamn website in less than five seconds. I also wish that the menu bar and tabs at the top didn't take up half my screen.

Do you mean the Start menu, Dalty? Did people really use it that much, or are they just freaking out because something they're used to seeing there is no longer there?

What are you talking about? I use the Start Menu all the time. How do you get to all your programs otherwise?

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

I have a single folder on my Desktop. It's named "All My Programs."

[Mal Shot First]

Barbaric.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

LET THAT WORD RESOUND!

[neglet]

Yawp.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

I went with a Robert Byrd reference, and Negs went with a Dead Poets Society reference. I'm not sure which is highbrow and which is lowbrow.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Don't you dare, Fake Strider.

[Dalty]

It's still shit! A redesign and refresh is fine and dandy. When that refresh takes something and make it 100x more shit than the version it replaces then something is amiss. End of.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

I have Windows 7. I thought about downloading Windows 8, but I decided I wasn't an idiot.

I may be an idiot despite having deciding I wasn't, but at least I'm an idiot who still has Windows 7.

I don't feel too bad for the people who get a system with Windows 8 as the default. At least they can find out as they go along what works and what doesn't. I do feel bad for all the people who plopped down their money and upgraded into a world of half-function.

[Dalty]

I had no choice. It came with the laptop.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

It doesn't take much to make it come.

[Dalty]

However the laptop has been on 3 times since I bought it. I am on the iPad constantly.

I think Apple and MS might have had a point!

[neglet]

I went with a Robert Byrd reference, and Negs went with a Dead Poets Society reference. I'm not sure which is highbrow and which is lowbrow.

Um, I was referring to the original poem from Walt Whitman. When I was in college I was a first reader for a pretentious student literary magazine that called itself "Barbaric Yawp." Thankfully they did not accept any of my horrible poetry.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

I maintain that you were making a Dead Poets Society reference, and I suggest that your "Um" was unnecessarily catty.

[neglet]

Um, cats are awesome.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Big cats are awesome. Domestic cats are dumb.

[Dalty]

Don't to there Goits. I have seen photographic evidence of the feline army Negs is training!

[Dalty]

Also, cats are fucking awesome.