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Yeah Android is n't continuing to treat us like a frog in boiling water by allowing side loading but restricting it ever so slightly each year. This year they're getting ridiculous with it forcing people to respond with like a million different permissions every single time they download any app. Fire OS is also going to stop using Android on their TVs so they'll be no side loading on fire TVs. Be thankfully we still have Android TVs but still...
@@michaelcorcoran8768that permission thing in android is a good thing.. instead giving app everything from the start you can choose which one you don't want..
The reason the "@" wasn't working probably is that despite the printed layout of the keyboard being QWERTZ, Windows was set to English and the default keyboard layout to QWERTY. So pressing "SHIFT" + "2" probably would have worked.
Even though that might be true, I've had [Alt Gr]+[ Q ] not work on some older Windows versions that 10. In such cases you've gotta resort to [Strg]+[ Alt ]+Q or [ Alt ] + 64 (which is a way to type most unicode by its codepoint value).
All of the Windows RT servers and the app store were shut down by Microsoft about a year and a half ago, so very little on these tablets actually work anymore. There are versions of Linux that can be installed on these to make them slightly more usable but these are so underpowered by modern standards that you might as well not. The RT tablets are little more than e-waste. If you had to have a tablet like this, the Surface Pro 1 and 2 are an infinitely better option, although still probably a poor investment.
I worked at Microsoft when the first Surface (RT) tablet came out. It was so slow, typing in Windows was just plain sluggish - and we couldn't connect to the corporate VPN because there weren't any available drivers for it. I gave it back after just 3 days. 😂
@Caleblovingking1 In all fairness, they likely rushed to market and used their 50,000 or so employees to be able to say that they sold 50,000 units straight away. And, as a first go at a tablet (ever) it could have been worse!
@@Caleblovingking1 It was Microsoft's first attempt at a tablet. I think the iPad came out a while before, but Windows on ARM just really wasn't a ready product by then. Like only about 40% of the user interface was set up for a tablet view with everything else dropping back to desktop. It was a truly horrible user experience.
It's crazy how technology is so disposable that a perfectly working tablet from 10 years ago is completely useless today. The same goes for notebooks and PCs, although these last a few more years before becoming obsolete. To understand how ridiculous this is, imagine if your stereo suddenly stops playing CDs, the radio doesn't work, etc. Not because it's broken, but because it can no longer do the things it was designed to do.
Not a real solution for most people, but I just installed Linux on an old surface I had lying around and now it is a workable tablet (fedora plasma mobile). At least with windows you can do that, the old iPad I have lying around is completely useless
the x86 vs ersion is still usable... the rt never really was.
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It's easy. In order to force create disposable product do these simple steps: 1. create hardware which locks you out from bios 2. lock boot partition 3. install shitty os 4. wait 5. stop support 6. turn off servers. Happy customer will come back again.
@@EVPaddyI loved my RT. Used it for everyday stuff like a Samsung tablet or iPad. Spotify, Microsoft Movies & TV, and any other apps/games. Having full Office on it was great, and one of the main things I used it for in school.
My dad bought me one of these and it overheated in my lap. When I complained to my dad, he just said, "What did you expect? Of course you're going to get burned by the Surface of the son."
I'd call Windows 11 the new Windows 8; has a whole lot of crap you definitely don't want and would unofficially patch the system to get rid of, except now that crap goes all the way back to installation.
That's pretty much the entire history of MS (save for a few exceptions). They keep making useless changes no one asked for while stubbornly refusing to fix ancient bugs / implement much needed QoL improvements.
I feel sick to my stomach that I am going to defend Microsoft, but you have to put yourself in their shoes, at that moment in time. The iPad was wow-ing everyone and taking over mindshare so they felt they needed to compete directly with it. But they were a desktop-only company. Regardless, they thought that they could one up Apple by making a touch-first tablet that ALSO could convert into a full productivity laptop-esque thing whenever someone needed the full desktop experience. The problem was, you had be a certain type of nerd to appreciate that jack of no trades approach. And I was one of them, but I always understood that the mainstream consumer was never going to be into that approach. The other big problem Microsoft had was that Windows was designed to run on battery-hogging x86 architecture, so in order to make a tablet with decent battery life, they literally had to rewrite Windows to work on the ARM architecture. This was quite a programming feat, but ultimately a disaster because if someone needed any "normal/traditional/exe" applications they were going to be incompatible (no translation layer available at that time...a really tall order that would have taken too long and destroyed performance). So no, it wasn't "really" Microsoft not listening to their customers, it was them trying to combat Apple by ushering in a hybrid future that 1. No one (normal) wanted and 2. Wasn't ready to be ushered in at that moment anyway. Most of the ideas used in Windows 8/RT have already made their way back, just in different, more palatable, and more complete ways. Just as with Windows Pocket PC/Windows Mobile, Microsoft wasn't too late, they were too early.
Windows 8 was last good windows. Fast, fluent, not buggy, and the best 2v1/hybrid and tablet OS ever. 10 buggy and slow, and 11 not good for tablets or pc with touchscreen. and still buggy
honestly they should have upgraded all 8.1 devices to windows 10 build 9785 lol (Essentially 8.1 but with a start menu but it still had the normal start screen in the Taskbar properties)
That is expected, Microsoft has been consistent with their O/S (un)usability for the past 30 years now -- exactly every other release of Windows is a winner: Windows 95 (was good in its day), Windows 98 (bad), W98 SE (good), Me (bad), XP (good), Vista (bad), 7 (good), 8.x (bad), 10 (good), 11 (bad). There is a good chance Windows 12 will be a good O/S.
I liked windows 8, I like the idea of a fullscreen start menu where I can put tons of pins and useful live tiles. I still use the fullscreen app dashboard on my kde linux desktop
I liked Windows 8, but it has to be 8.1 for me. Everything is a lot more refined in that version, including having the all apps section in the start menu and making it a bit more workable on a desktop PC.
Don't take this the wrong way... But I haven't met a pro who liked W8.... or W11 for that matter... W8 was sooooo good that most people skipped it, and went from W7 to W10.
@@tommy2cents492I'm a pro, and I loved Windows 8.1 through 11. 11 lost or moved some minor things from 10 but gained some big improvements like window management, enhanced dictation, etc.
_...including a sponsor segment that for once I didn’t skip_ Except, that I need to keep reminding myself he's actually being serious. I find it hard to distinguish his satire from the rest... 😂very entertaining!
I worked for surface support for a few years before they outsourced us to another country. Windows RT is NOT the same as Windows 8. RT was literally worthless, if the store went down (as you saw) the tablet was basically worthless. Windows 8 sucked also and we immediately pushed any customer that called in to the free windows 10 upgrade, but at least windows 8 you could install EXE files.
Yeah, they still get sold on Ebay to people who don't know that you can't install stuff on them. They then get resold and resold by people hoping to not be the one left holding the bag.
I was looking forward to you finding out without googling it how to find shutdown and restart. Microsoft really went all out alienating PC customers with Windows 8.
That's the main downward spiral even if you take an android device as old as jelly bean Google play stores still work. Killing a Microsoft App Store on devices only support apps from Microsoft Store is criminal.
Fortunately I learned my lesson very early after buying an expensive Casio "Pocket PC" running "Windows CE". Shortly after Microsoft removed every proof that this system ever existed from their website, including the SDK.
@@ContactDailyKaizen I agree. Though I take a certain security risk every day, I understand it. It's one of the two best (imo) versions of Windows that MS came out with. The other was XP.
For me, windows 8.1 is the best windows ever existed. Fast booting, clean home menu, low spec requirements and etc. I never experience bsod and system error on my old PC with win 8 compared to win 7 and 10.
It was extremely optims3d all things considered , my 2006 vista laptop ran 8 until it died in 2022 after 16 years of service. It gave into the viruses . There was this one with Mario's face that would pop up then straight away close on start up.
I think if you update it a few times via the settings, you can make some stuff work. I got an old windows phone a little while ago and I was able to access the Microsoft Shop after updating it a few times.
@BIT866 Hmmm. Ok. It's just that if I did that, I'd think I was into self punishment. But listen, that's just me. I can see that others feel differently about it. I can recall a time when I'd enjoy such things because of the geeky thrill I got out of it. Happy new year!
We manage two sites that still have to run windows 8 for their CCTV system workstations because they don't want to pay the licencing fees to upgrade the CCTV software or buy a new system. Same goes for the cameras. They don't want to upgrade them or even do the firmware updates on them. You can only login to them with internet explorer. I do a few every time that I'm on site without telling them. The CCTV system is air gapped. So they don't really care about updates or security patches.
This video should come with a trigger warning. I bought a Surface Pro 4 when it came out. It was running fine until Microsoft pushed out an update that stopped the battery from turning off so it heated up when it was supposed to be doing nothing. And then the keyboard stopped working so I had to buy a bluetooth keyboard. Microsoft left thousands of Surface Pro owners to rot as they denied any responsibility. Am I still mad about it? No, of course not.
Something tells me the nostalgia for this OS in a few decades will still be infinitesimal... thanks for suffering through it for our own edification :)
@@zdanee, I don't understand why do people hate windows aero. This is literally the best thing microsoft ever made. And it gets additional points due to nostalgia. It's reminiscent of when times were better...
@@какойтошизик You might look back at it through rose tinted glasses, but when it was actually out and new it lagged like crazy on most hardware. Sure, a high-end PC at the time was fine running it, but this was a time when most people were running single core CPUs and integrated Intel graphics, and a lot of people/institutions/schools were on old P3/4 hardware with VIA or SIS craphics. People hated it because you had to put in time and effort to make it run acceptably. This was also at the time netbooks with Atom were introduced, and as the first cheap laptops at the time it was the first computer for a lot of people, and Vista was not good on those. Sometimes the problem is not the software but the time it was released at. OS/2 was a great OS but 3 years too late to become relevant, Crysis is not that hard to run today, but at the time it was ridiculous (much like how Cyberpunk 2077 was an indicator you have a high-end PC not long ago, but today you are expected to be able to run it smoothly). Vista was an important step towards Win 7, but Win 7 was the right OS at the right time, Vista was not.
Funnily enough, there are many Germans who really think it's the “Strong” button. But I had a user on the phone who mentioned that she pressed the “Strange” button. (And strange things have happened!)
I still have Lenovo Miix 3 8", it cost 130 euros in 2013. Its still working. 2GB ram, 1024x768, its very fluent and fast (when u dont use more than 3 tabs in edge) I use it as sign device for documents, and u can play CS source, cs 1.6 and half life on it :D also some tablet games
For once I actually watched an ad mid video, the chair seems like a quality of life improvement not just trying to sell us something. Definitely will check out their site. Thank you ✨
I must be the only person in the world that loved my Surface RT way back when. Used it to write all kinds of proposals in the most bizarre places I happened to be! 🤪
Company I worked for bought the entire sales team these Surface 1s as our field computers. They were pretty slick and awesome at the time, but the windows 8 element of it all always made things wonky. The hardware itself was pretty cool, despite the really rotten ram. Also the keyboards in the US markets had real keys with actual travel.
Ah the surface. I still have mine! On the shelf where it's been since about a month after I got it! I lost the charger and I'm pretty sure it's impossible to charge it with any other plug known to man. Brilliant design.
As a tablet based device it worked and had a standard interface on top of the windows 8 tile page. It wasn’t the fastest thing out there but it did the job ok. One of the biggest issues we found was not much app/program support for ARM.
Thanks HBADA for keeping me comfortable during this Windows ordeal 😂
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Why are you so early? The video came out a minute ago
10 days ago?
Brother discovered time travel
So... I bought it! Hope it's good for my butt!
Proof that Time Travel is True
As a German I can confirm we always dress up as traditional Bavarians before using our computers, it‘z se law
As another German I can confirm it. And Error Sound must beset by law to JodelNr1.mp3 wich than Plays the Hardstyle Buamz - Franzl Lang
and there are lush alpine meadows all over germany, not just a tiny strip in the south 1%
Ordnung muss sein, ja? :)
As a Bavarian, I could confirm we do too.
What about the beer? Is it drunk as early as baby as they say?
This is the unfortunate future for all devices unable to install software outside of some "store" application. It's pretty dystopian.
Yeah Android is n't continuing to treat us like a frog in boiling water by allowing side loading but restricting it ever so slightly each year. This year they're getting ridiculous with it forcing people to respond with like a million different permissions every single time they download any app.
Fire OS is also going to stop using Android on their TVs so they'll be no side loading on fire TVs. Be thankfully we still have Android TVs but still...
@@michaelcorcoran8768that permission thing in android is a good thing.. instead giving app everything from the start you can choose which one you don't want..
Fearmongering aahhh post
@@michaelcorcoran8768What permission? The only problem for me is they prevent Older APP to be installed
Not if you stop buying those devices.
The reason the "@" wasn't working probably is that despite the printed layout of the keyboard being QWERTZ, Windows was set to English and the default keyboard layout to QWERTY. So pressing "SHIFT" + "2" probably would have worked.
Even though that might be true, I've had [Alt Gr]+[ Q ] not work on some older Windows versions that 10. In such cases you've gotta resort to [Strg]+[ Alt ]+Q or [ Alt ] + 64 (which is a way to type most unicode by its codepoint value).
All of the Windows RT servers and the app store were shut down by Microsoft about a year and a half ago, so very little on these tablets actually work anymore. There are versions of Linux that can be installed on these to make them slightly more usable but these are so underpowered by modern standards that you might as well not. The RT tablets are little more than e-waste. If you had to have a tablet like this, the Surface Pro 1 and 2 are an infinitely better option, although still probably a poor investment.
Yes, a postmarketOS review would be nice.
It's a shame. You can get linux running on old arm32 and 32 bit intel devices but most apps still don't support it
@@leonidas14775 But still more apps than windows RT.
Im on the linx tablet
I've got an RT myself, and it's purely for decoration
I worked at Microsoft when the first Surface (RT) tablet came out. It was so slow, typing in Windows was just plain sluggish - and we couldn't connect to the corporate VPN because there weren't any available drivers for it. I gave it back after just 3 days. 😂
When you worked there you gave it back? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 How didnt they realise it was garbage immediately and not release it
@Caleblovingking1 In all fairness, they likely rushed to market and used their 50,000 or so employees to be able to say that they sold 50,000 units straight away. And, as a first go at a tablet (ever) it could have been worse!
@iamfinkyuk Really didnt know it was the first take. thought the Ipad was there too by then
@@Caleblovingking1 It was Microsoft's first attempt at a tablet. I think the iPad came out a while before, but Windows on ARM just really wasn't a ready product by then. Like only about 40% of the user interface was set up for a tablet view with everything else dropping back to desktop. It was a truly horrible user experience.
It's nice that companies control the devices we own, and can just turn them into ewaste whenever they want.
This but unironically
Like Apple?
Keeping old devices to life hurts profits
Android 🔛🔝
@@antaeussnorik6790 Android is starting to do the same thing as well lmao
"Look look its multitasking and none of the task is working, failing twice as hard" got me good 🤣🤣
Was looking for this comment😂
It's crazy how technology is so disposable that a perfectly working tablet from 10 years ago is completely useless today. The same goes for notebooks and PCs, although these last a few more years before becoming obsolete. To understand how ridiculous this is, imagine if your stereo suddenly stops playing CDs, the radio doesn't work, etc. Not because it's broken, but because it can no longer do the things it was designed to do.
Not a real solution for most people, but I just installed Linux on an old surface I had lying around and now it is a workable tablet (fedora plasma mobile). At least with windows you can do that, the old iPad I have lying around is completely useless
the x86 vs ersion is still usable... the rt never really was.
It's easy. In order to force create disposable product do these simple steps: 1. create hardware which locks you out from bios 2. lock boot partition 3. install shitty os 4. wait 5. stop support 6. turn off servers. Happy customer will come back again.
@@EVPaddyI loved my RT. Used it for everyday stuff like a Samsung tablet or iPad. Spotify, Microsoft Movies & TV, and any other apps/games. Having full Office on it was great, and one of the main things I used it for in school.
Software-dependent products obsolescence, the best cash cow ever!
“Look, it’s multitasking and none of its tasks are working” - I feel personally attacked
"Maybe moths will eat it one day."
Don't worry, even moths won't touch windows 8
Sure they will. I mean they have the balls for it!
My dad bought me one of these and it overheated in my lap. When I complained to my dad, he just said, "What did you expect? Of course you're going to get burned by the Surface of the son."
Is that a dad joke?
I'm rooting for this to be real, because it's a delicious dad joke! 😄
Money well spent just for that
and then everyone started clapping
You are so amusing! Thank you for making me laugh. 😂
“Strg” stands for “Steuerung” (Control) on a German keyboard - love your sense of humor, Sam!
I'd call Windows 11 the new Windows 8; has a whole lot of crap you definitely don't want and would unofficially patch the system to get rid of, except now that crap goes all the way back to installation.
0:14 Sam loving ya nail color
At least it doesnt show ads in the start menu
Most authentic German I have ever heard 6:21
😂😂😂
Lmao
just without any word in it ;)
as a native speaker, i can only say that you should definitely play the angry german role in any kind of movie
I had some German classes at school and yet I still can't tell whether Sam spoke gibberish at 6:22 or that was actual German.
@@lllIIIlIllIIllhmm. I‘m a native German speaker and understood nothing… I’m betting on gibberish ^^
Nah der neue Ottfried Fischer. Der Rest vom Körper muss nur noch ins Gesicht passen
@@t.r.2283where do you get that from? That sounded nothing like your written sentence
@@max_thx Ottfried Fischer kennst du?
0:43 - That actually looks like an USB-C port.
EDIT: It couldn't be since the standard was published in 2014.
be nice, he's an apple user.
It's wild that he's been making tech videos for this long and still can't identify them. Like... What?
It's actually mini displayport. That's on my older intel macbooks
Type C didn't exist back then, genuises...
@@tempomail9387 You are correct. USB-C standard was published in 2014.
Windows 8 is a classic case of a company not listening to its customers.
That's pretty much the entire history of MS (save for a few exceptions). They keep making useless changes no one asked for while stubbornly refusing to fix ancient bugs / implement much needed QoL improvements.
I feel sick to my stomach that I am going to defend Microsoft, but you have to put yourself in their shoes, at that moment in time. The iPad was wow-ing everyone and taking over mindshare so they felt they needed to compete directly with it. But they were a desktop-only company. Regardless, they thought that they could one up Apple by making a touch-first tablet that ALSO could convert into a full productivity laptop-esque thing whenever someone needed the full desktop experience. The problem was, you had be a certain type of nerd to appreciate that jack of no trades approach. And I was one of them, but I always understood that the mainstream consumer was never going to be into that approach. The other big problem Microsoft had was that Windows was designed to run on battery-hogging x86 architecture, so in order to make a tablet with decent battery life, they literally had to rewrite Windows to work on the ARM architecture. This was quite a programming feat, but ultimately a disaster because if someone needed any "normal/traditional/exe" applications they were going to be incompatible (no translation layer available at that time...a really tall order that would have taken too long and destroyed performance). So no, it wasn't "really" Microsoft not listening to their customers, it was them trying to combat Apple by ushering in a hybrid future that 1. No one (normal) wanted and 2. Wasn't ready to be ushered in at that moment anyway. Most of the ideas used in Windows 8/RT have already made their way back, just in different, more palatable, and more complete ways. Just as with Windows Pocket PC/Windows Mobile, Microsoft wasn't too late, they were too early.
Windows 8 was last good windows. Fast, fluent, not buggy, and the best 2v1/hybrid and tablet OS ever. 10 buggy and slow, and 11 not good for tablets or pc with touchscreen. and still buggy
@@CaptainCaveman1170 very good analysis
honestly they should have upgraded all 8.1 devices to windows 10 build 9785 lol
(Essentially 8.1 but with a start menu but it still had the normal start screen in the Taskbar properties)
At least they didn't double down on all the terrible parts of 8 when they made 8.1. With 11 they seem to actively try to make things worse.
That is expected, Microsoft has been consistent with their O/S (un)usability for the past 30 years now -- exactly every other release of Windows is a winner: Windows 95 (was good in its day), Windows 98 (bad), W98 SE (good), Me (bad), XP (good), Vista (bad), 7 (good), 8.x (bad), 10 (good), 11 (bad). There is a good chance Windows 12 will be a good O/S.
This showcases perfectly how all our stuff gets useless as soon as the servers shut down. (And how bad Microsoft was, is and will always be)
Ah, another torture video. UA-cam shows everything these days
I liked windows 8, I like the idea of a fullscreen start menu where I can put tons of pins and useful live tiles. I still use the fullscreen app dashboard on my kde linux desktop
I liked Windows 8, but it has to be 8.1 for me. Everything is a lot more refined in that version, including having the all apps section in the start menu and making it a bit more workable on a desktop PC.
Gnome bro hahsha
Why not Gnome than?
Don't take this the wrong way... But I haven't met a pro who liked W8.... or W11 for that matter...
W8 was sooooo good that most people skipped it, and went from W7 to W10.
@@tommy2cents492I'm a pro, and I loved Windows 8.1 through 11. 11 lost or moved some minor things from 10 but gained some big improvements like window management, enhanced dictation, etc.
Funniest vid yet, including a sponsor segment that for once I didn’t skip
this must have been the first sponsorship since forever that got me interested .
You shouldn't have skipped the battery one! It was a banger of an ad!
_...including a sponsor segment that for once I didn’t skip_
Except, that I need to keep reminding myself he's actually being serious. I find it hard to distinguish his satire from the rest... 😂very entertaining!
Me too. I actually wanted to watch an ad. 👍🏻
And years later it'll turn out the chair was was designed to steal affiliate links from Honey.
Watching this on Windows 8
God bless your soul
Blink twice if you need help
Why not atleast use 10
how??
@Dogappel cant install 10 on the rt.. but i installed 11 on surface pro 1 and 2. and works just fine.. no lag. 11 pro.
I don't want the M4 after this
same! but I never wanted one in the first place 🎉
@@kaitek666 same buy i dont want a apple device in the first place
The German keyboard part got me 😂
Fluent german made my day... greetings from hamburg
greetings from Hamburg to you.
8:13 that's a lot better than most news these days
I worked for surface support for a few years before they outsourced us to another country. Windows RT is NOT the same as Windows 8. RT was literally worthless, if the store went down (as you saw) the tablet was basically worthless. Windows 8 sucked also and we immediately pushed any customer that called in to the free windows 10 upgrade, but at least windows 8 you could install EXE files.
I laughed through this whole video. Made me think of Murray on The Flight of the Concords. 😂
3:00 The commercial should be a separate video, it's incredible (Tim Cook Saying) 😂😂😂
Woww - Tim Cook
What ad? Oh you don't know yet how to get rid of them seamlessly
RT stands for ReTurn I believe.
return to x86 or return to win 7? both seem like a better option.
Or Return back to the store for a refund.
If a table is wobbly, please use a Surface under one leg.
Sam the Model, Track Pants and Brown Boots. Fantastic! Great Video Mr. Sam Tucker! Thank you. 😀
Yeah, they still get sold on Ebay to people who don't know that you can't install stuff on them. They then get resold and resold by people hoping to not be the one left holding the bag.
It's the white elephant that keeps on giving!
Thanks for this nostalgic journey of pain
I was looking forward to you finding out without googling it how to find shutdown and restart. Microsoft really went all out alienating PC customers with Windows 8.
I loved Windows 8 Start Menu. That Metro view..
That's the main downward spiral even if you take an android device as old as jelly bean Google play stores still work. Killing a Microsoft App Store on devices only support apps from Microsoft Store is criminal.
Fortunately I learned my lesson very early after buying an expensive Casio "Pocket PC" running "Windows CE". Shortly after Microsoft removed every proof that this system ever existed from their website, including the SDK.
technology review AND german classes, what a hell of a channel.
Do windows 7 next
I remember using Windows 1.3
Windows 7 was/is great
@@ContactDailyKaizen I agree. Though I take a certain security risk every day, I understand it.
It's one of the two best (imo) versions of Windows that MS came out with. The other was XP.
I still use 7.
@@969thewhip I just started using it
I laughed so hard just looking at the thumbnail with windows 8 tiles ha ha ha and here I am , subbed!
4:46 ends the ad
"it's multitasking, none of the tasks are working, fail twice as fast with windows"
😂
Love the comedy!
0:27 I curse🤬🤬 Apple for removing HP jack, and most Android brands removed it too.😢
Yes. The HP jack. Wouldn’t want a person using an HP device with an Apple am I right?(HP== Helwet Packard)
So far all their MacBooks still have the HP jack. Even the new M4 mini has a HP jack at front.
@@chadfli are u slow? H = head P = phone 😂
For me, windows 8.1 is the best windows ever existed. Fast booting, clean home menu, low spec requirements and etc. I never experience bsod and system error on my old PC with win 8 compared to win 7 and 10.
I cannot describe the the heart attack I had reading your comment.
Marginaly better and more reliable than Windows 11.
Best part is the commercial about chairs. Your like the 80”s best seller in the world jajja. Love ya
It was extremely optims3d all things considered , my 2006 vista laptop ran 8 until it died in 2022 after 16 years of service.
It gave into the viruses .
There was this one with Mario's face that would pop up then straight away close on start up.
Just install a new OS and you are good to go.
@@user-red_rose drive was dead ,it ended up hitting the bin a few months later since the screen was dead
This video was top notch! I liked the long form,rambling,off the cuff jokes.
I think if you update it a few times via the settings, you can make some stuff work. I got an old windows phone a little while ago and I was able to access the Microsoft Shop after updating it a few times.
I'm only wondering why you went and hurt yourself in that way.
@@keithbrown7685 I guess Im just cool like that.
@BIT866 Hmmm. Ok. It's just that if I did that, I'd think I was into self punishment. But listen, that's just me. I can see that others feel differently about it.
I can recall a time when I'd enjoy such things because of the geeky thrill I got out of it.
Happy new year!
Wow you're right, I can't spell diahhrhaeah.
feel real bad to anyone still using Windows 8
We manage two sites that still have to run windows 8 for their CCTV system workstations because they don't want to pay the licencing fees to upgrade the CCTV software or buy a new system.
Same goes for the cameras. They don't want to upgrade them or even do the firmware updates on them. You can only login to them with internet explorer. I do a few every time that I'm on site without telling them.
The CCTV system is air gapped. So they don't really care about updates or security patches.
Like your new 2025 setup 🔥🔥🔥
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Entertaining, as always. 😅 Happy New Year, Sam! 🎉
As a linux user i can say windows 8 was bad.
which windows was good then?
@JohnL_S17 7, and nothing after. xD
Window's peaked at XP and has been going flaccid since.
XP and 7 were solid. Everything else sucked. Luckily Linux desktops are usable nowadays.
I miss Windows 7, 11 makes me want to switch to Linux.
That camera is surprisingly decent
Never laughed this constantly throughout a video - great job Sam! German keyboard bit was ingenious
Windows Surface RT used to work but alot of the services for Windows 8.1 RT have been put offline as Windows 8 was discontinued
5:31 It's like using Apple pencil 1 on latest ipads. # dongle life
This is the first time I’m not skipped an ad. The Ugg boots and the angry German got me 🤣👍
bro you have the best humor, never change.
This video should come with a trigger warning. I bought a Surface Pro 4 when it came out. It was running fine until Microsoft pushed out an update that stopped the battery from turning off so it heated up when it was supposed to be doing nothing. And then the keyboard stopped working so I had to buy a bluetooth keyboard. Microsoft left thousands of Surface Pro owners to rot as they denied any responsibility. Am I still mad about it? No, of course not.
Something tells me the nostalgia for this OS in a few decades will still be infinitesimal... thanks for suffering through it for our own edification :)
First Funniest tech video of 2025 from SamTime
Congrats Sam! Looks like you bought a lighted brick. 😁
8 was the worst user interface ever
Still better than Vista though...
Atleast you could disable tiles with ads. Unlike one system...
Windows 11: hold my beer.
@@zdanee, I don't understand why do people hate windows aero. This is literally the best thing microsoft ever made. And it gets additional points due to nostalgia. It's reminiscent of when times were better...
@@какойтошизик You might look back at it through rose tinted glasses, but when it was actually out and new it lagged like crazy on most hardware. Sure, a high-end PC at the time was fine running it, but this was a time when most people were running single core CPUs and integrated Intel graphics, and a lot of people/institutions/schools were on old P3/4 hardware with VIA or SIS craphics. People hated it because you had to put in time and effort to make it run acceptably. This was also at the time netbooks with Atom were introduced, and as the first cheap laptops at the time it was the first computer for a lot of people, and Vista was not good on those. Sometimes the problem is not the software but the time it was released at. OS/2 was a great OS but 3 years too late to become relevant, Crysis is not that hard to run today, but at the time it was ridiculous (much like how Cyberpunk 2077 was an indicator you have a high-end PC not long ago, but today you are expected to be able to run it smoothly). Vista was an important step towards Win 7, but Win 7 was the right OS at the right time, Vista was not.
I like ads when Sam presents them... Who knew chairs could be interesting... Give the man many more ads...
Linux🐧: "Windows H8."
This is what customer obsolescence looks like, now yours for just $399.
Probably not first!
correct
That's what my mum said.
Wrong!
This guy right here, he was first
@@Renigen Are you sorting by top comments?
Funnily enough, there are many Germans who really think it's the “Strong” button. But I had a user on the phone who mentioned that she pressed the “Strange” button. (And strange things have happened!)
first comment give it a like
no
The mini HDMI was the biggest nightmare in terms of connectivity. Obviously it would look to the untrained eye as a C port
I still have Lenovo Miix 3 8", it cost 130 euros in 2013. Its still working. 2GB ram, 1024x768, its very fluent and fast (when u dont use more than 3 tabs in edge) I use it as sign device for documents, and u can play CS source, cs 1.6 and half life on it :D also some tablet games
"It's multi-tasking and none of the tasks are working." That sounds about right for Windows.
Cool chair, I almost got that one but my budget left me with a Dowinx Gaming Chair Fabric
so far happy
For once I actually watched an ad mid video, the chair seems like a quality of life improvement not just trying to sell us something. Definitely will check out their site. Thank you ✨
I must be the only person in the world that loved my Surface RT way back when. Used it to write all kinds of proposals in the most bizarre places I happened to be! 🤪
I watched the whole chair ad. You've got sale!
"It's multitasking and none or the tasks are working" --- 😂 😂 😂 😂
Company I worked for bought the entire sales team these Surface 1s as our field computers. They were pretty slick and awesome at the time, but the windows 8 element of it all always made things wonky. The hardware itself was pretty cool, despite the really rotten ram. Also the keyboards in the US markets had real keys with actual travel.
best thing about that tablet, free office 2013, remove some screws, the back comes off so you can replace battery glued to the back.
"Was ist reignisches Heisefeit! Wühlketz Reikätzwerlehrer keilischen den Heilen der Heilerhagen."
-Sam Tucker, 2025
Danke schön for this very amusing video 😂😂
Ah the surface. I still have mine! On the shelf where it's been since about a month after I got it! I lost the charger and I'm pretty sure it's impossible to charge it with any other plug known to man. Brilliant design.
2:21 "Gërman vërsion, Gërman vërsion" 🤌🤌🤌
Only UA-camr I actually don't skip the promotion by forwarding lol
3 different sets of hands get swapped out throughout the course of the video.
I think SAMTIME might be a robot.
I love❤ the way you say it’s the American keyboard at 2:15
you're the best comedian out there. you should be on SNL
As a tablet based device it worked and had a standard interface on top of the windows 8 tile page. It wasn’t the fastest thing out there but it did the job ok.
One of the biggest issues we found was not much app/program support for ARM.
"Making electronics out of the same thing as clothes" - you're a genius, Sam. I'll get right on it.
Windows 8 was the beginning of Microsoft's defeat in the operating systems market.
The most relief you could do is just hack it.
Sam, you are damn funny, thank you for making tech review enjoyable :)