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Testseek.com have collected 240 expert reviews of the Microsoft Windows 8 and the average rating is 74%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Microsoft Windows 8.
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The editors liked

  • Metro redesign actually makes Desktop way more pleasant
  • Two-display support is pretty solid
  • And useful for mixing Metro with desktop
  • Real gestures on Windows. That work
  • The Metro Start screen is an awesome dashboard/app drawer
  • Free streamed music th
  • Adds a tiled
  • Clean Start Menu to Windows 8
  • Can customize with shortcuts and apps to your specific workflow
  • Significantly better than the Windows 8 dashboard
  • Attractive
  • Touch-friendly interface
  • Tightly integrated with cloud
  • Compelling search feature
  • Fast boots
  • Slick Bing apps
  • Faster boot times
  • Two-in-one operating system—both tablet and PC
  • Excellent touch input
  • App store for easily finding
  • Installing
  • And updating apps
  • New IE10 browser is fast and compatible
  • Better multi-monitor support
  • Low price compared with previous Windows releases
  • More informative task manager and file transfer dialogs
  • New
  • Improved file system
  • Easier recovery from system problems
  • Better integration with the cloud
  • Faster boot times. Twoinone operating systemboth tablet and PC. Excellent touch input. App store for easily finding
  • And updating apps. New IE10 browser is fast and compatible. Better multimonitor support. Low price compared with previous Wind
  • Great OS to upgrade to
  • Excellent pricing
  • Tons of improvements across every facet of the OS
  • Win8 UI is solid
  • Easy to use
  • Overall design is more conducive for professional use
  • Great for gaming
  • Plays vast majority of games perfectly
  • 's review of the Surface RT tablet. In short
  • Microsoft will need to clearly explain that Windows RT is a mobile OS that shares the same skin as Windows 8
  • But is not a fully capable PC. It cannot run the same desktop programs as full Windows 8
  • Only apps
  • Very touch-friendly and unique new user interface design that's sure to translate well to both very large screens and smaller tablet screens
  • Easy and fast one-handed task switching
  • Touch screen controls are accessible by swiping the screen edges for v
  • Touch-optimised UI works well on tablets
  • Wealth of built-in apps
  • Reset and recovery tools
  • Very stable
  • Several great improvements versus Windows 7
  • Better performance and faster bootup
  • Cheap upgrade offers
  • Good usability for powerusers
  • Lots of new schortcuts
  • Better security
  • Great for systems with touchscreens
  • Better multiscreen support
  • Works well on tablets
  • Traditional PCs
  • Deep integration with SkyDrive
  • Xbox
  • Free music streaming
  • Improved multi-monitor support
  • Solid and stable OS. Performance onpar or better than Windows 7. The traditional desktop receives a healthy dose of enhancements. Metro is visually appealing and should work really well on touchscreens. Upgrade price is attractive and extends all the way

The editors didn't like

  • Advertisement
  • Limited selection of Metro apps in the Windows Store
  • Simple actions in Metro apps
  • Like searching
  • Can be deceptively hard to complete
  • Metro apps can be visually confusing when multitasking
  • Laptop touchpads don't make the most sense
  • Som
  • Nothing
  • Competing interfaces lead to confusion
  • Few Windows 8 apps for now
  • No Start menu
  • Umer apps—People
  • For social network contacts
  • Photos
  • Mail
  • Messaging
  • Calendar
  • And Video
  • Xbox Music—a free streaming music service similar to Spotify
  • Storage Spaces—Lets you easily use multiple drives as one large virtual pool of storage
  • ISO mounting
  • The OS can now make a disc image file appear as a drive
  • You'll get all this and more for a mere $39
  • 99 upgrade from Windows XP and later
  • An
  • The missing Start menu will drive some people nuts
  • Overly aggressive when it comes to selling apps and content
  • Some aspects of the OS are unnecessarily confusing
  • Unfamiliar and sometimes unintuitive interface navigation. Few tablet apps compared with competing platforms. Two separate control panels and browsers could cause confusion
  • Some functions are scattered
  • Win8 versus Win7 line is very strict
  • Laptops with small/poor trackpads will suffer immensely
  • Upgrading proves far easier that setting Win8 up brand new
  • People easily frustrated by change will have problems here
  • Windows Store is still relatively low on apps. Ambiguity between x86 and Windows Store apps in Microsoft messaging and when pinned on Start Screen. Windows 8 will take effort to get used to
  • And not all users want to learn a new operating system and inter
  •  Significant learning curve
  • Reduced discoverability of features (many commands are hidden in edge menus)
  • Windows RT version does not support traditional desktop applications due to the processor architecture it runs on
  • UI does not yet support navigatio
  • Modern UI a major upheaval
  • Legacy applications are confined to desktop
  • Microsoft risks alienating desktop/laptop users
  • No boottodesktop setting
  • No builtin option to return the Start Menu
  • Weird location of shutdown/restart buttons
  • Poor multitasking with Modern UI and desktop
  • DV Hardware awards Windows 8 with a 8.75/10 an
  • Steep learning curve
  • Frustrating to use with a mouse
  • Limited selection in Windows Store
  • Metro and the desktop have been forced to coexist and it shows. UI changes can add to confusion. No Start button makes no sense. OS has yet to prove itself on the tablet market with further hardware and software support.

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  Published: 2012-11-11, review by: hardware.info

  • Abstract:  Veel gamers die hun PC vrijwel puur en alleen gebruiken voor het spelen van de nieuwste titels zijn huiverig om over te stappen naar Windows 8.

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  Published: 2012-11-02, review by: nu.nl

  • Windows 8 tilt tablets naar een hoger niveau en is ook geschikt voor laptops. De desktop en zakelijke gebruiker worden echter naar de achtergrond geschoven en daar is het nog te vroeg voor. Ook het werken met twee verschillende omgevingen in één systeem...

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  Published: 2012-10-28, Author: Wout , review by: tweakers.net

  • Over het algemeen zijn we behoorlijk onder de indruk van de Metro-interface op tablets, zeker als je bedenkt hoeveel werk er sinds de release van Windows 7 verzet moet zijn. Microsoft heeft een nieuw startmenu gebouwd, heeft een volledig nieuwe api ontwi...

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  Published: 2012-10-27, Author: Olaf , review by: tweakers.net

  • Abstract:  Hoe werkt Windows 8 op desktopsystemen en laptops? De opvolger van Windows 7 lijkt vooral ontwikkeld te zijn voor touchscreens, maar in dit artikel kijken we of er ook met een muis,......

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  Published: 2012-10-25, review by: diskidee.nl

  • Met Windows 8 ver­an­dert er heel wat voor Win­dows-ge­brui­kers. Dat Windows de­zelf­de in­ter­fa­ce ge­bruikt op alle soorten com­pu­ters, van smartpho­nes tot tablets, is een groot voor­deel, want het ver­min­dert de leer­cur­ve voor ge­brui­kers. Wij ...

 
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  Published: 2012-10-25, review by: techzine.nl

  • Abstract:  Waar de missie van Windows 7 voor velen duidelijk was, namelijk de problemen van Windows Vista verhelpen, is dat bij Windows 8 nog een stuk minder helder. Voordat we beginnen met het...

 
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  Published: 2012-08-24, Author: Simon , review by: zdnet.nl

  • Abstract:  Veel van de aandacht voor Windows 8 gaat uit naar zijn rol als besturingssysteem voor consumenten. Maar dat is niet het volledige verhaal, verre van dat. Hoewel de meerderheid van de thuisgebruikers nog steeds Microsofts besturingssysteem gebruiken, ligt ...

 
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  Published: 2012-06-04, Author: Rowald , review by: zdnet.nl

  • Abstract:  Met minimaal vertoon schuift Microsoft de bijna afgeronde versie van Windows 8 naar voren, dat steeds meer begint te lijken op een OS dat iedereen kan gebruiken.Wat gelijk vanaf het begin duidelijk wordt in deze Release Preview: dit is geen bètaversie mee...

 
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  Published: 2012-06-01, review by: hardware.info

  • Langzaam maar zeker beginnen de definitieve mogelijkheden van Windows 8 duidelijk te worden. Wat en hoe weten we natuurlijk pas echt op het moment dat het product op de markt komt. Maar deze Release Preview laat al goed zien waar het naar toe gaat. Hoe...

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  Published: 2012-03-01, review by: hardware.info

  • Een hele stap vooruit. Windows 8 Consumer Preview is een behoorlijke verbetering ten opzichte van de eerdere Developer Preview. Er zijn veel slimmigheidjes toegevoegd, een groot aantal die we nog niet hebben kunnen bespreken, maar het blijft wel een he...

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