Someone has Sellotaped New Year resolutions and alcoholic abstinence together to bring us Dry January. It’s a concept pushed as being efficacious and critical to a successful life and the natural path for anyone wanting the very best for themselves. So, join me in raising a de-ionised glass of water to bid farewell to one of the most infamous technological Sellotapings of all time, Windows 8.
To be accurate, January 2023 sees Microsoft canning Windows 8.1. Windows 8 was launched into a canal, bound with a breeze-block-laden sack in 2016. Spotting the join between the two was always hard. Personally, I liked 8 because of its speed. Back in 2013, I was running a quirky Phenom II X4 mini-ITX affair with Windows 7 trotting along merrily. The machine’s performance improved when I installed 8, which is not something I’ve ever noticed since. Windows 8.1 was an attempt to smooth over the reputational damaged caused by “that” menu, but it also tightened up the integration with
