Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 on XPS 15 Haswell

Is anyone running the Windows 7 on there Haswell XPS 15 ?

Just want some opinions?

 

I'd be curious as well. Windows 8.x really sucks from my limited use of it. I'm hoping it changes but I really don't like the change. From what I've heard scaling is not as good on the Windows 7.

 

The question would be asked what are you expecting to get from Windows 8.1? If your expecting alot of drastic differences you won't get them. Unless your laptop is maybe touchscreen then a Windows 8.1 might suffice to make it work better but other then that my preview of Windows 8 was not a good experience even some have said you can use start is back to get a Windows 7 setup but I was like then use Windows 7 then all that extra 3rd party software to make it Windows 7 means you never did like Windows 8 and all the advances they tought doesn't make it any better. Those 3rd party software just to make a Windows 7 environment is introducing more security holes that malware and virus can use to attack your system that is the problem with using 3rd party they will not fix your system should anything go wrong using them. IMO

 

windows 8.1 update one fixes most of the UI issues that bugged people. not all but most.

Windows 7 on a high DPI screen would not be good.

also I am finding that I use more and more the windows 8 modern apps like mail, calendar, tapatalk for this forum rather than the websites for them.it is nice to open an app with 1 click and have all the data loaded. Notification are nice with some apps like twitter, FB and PMs here via an app rather than website.


There are some really high quality windows 8 apps that I use daily (to be fair there are also a lot of terrible apps) Coach's Eye is amazing
ESPN ScoreCenter and WatchESPN work great, the Netflix app is nice, Hulu Plus works wellI use newspaper apps rather than their respective websiteseBay's app is well made

so is drawboard for annotating PDFs.


with w7 you have to buy expensive desktop apps to do much of the same as there are cheap/free w8 apps for.I really like snapping ESPN scorecenter to the side of the screen in a narrow column and then have the desktop up doing office work or video editing.anyways, I don't see a compelling reason to use W7 anymore for any type of PC.... prior to update 1 of 8.1 a non touch screen laptop or desktop was hard to use with 8 but now that isn't the case.


being able to minimize w8 apps and pin them to the taskbar and getting the taskbar if you move your mouse down to the bottom of the screen are good steps.
8 will keep getting better as it matures.

 

You'd be daft to go for Windows 7 IMO.

Almost everything bad said about 8 has gone with 8.1, what hasn't can be made to go in a setting, and everything else is liveable with.

All in all, that minor inconvenience is far less important than not having scaling on windows 7, and as mentioned above, the metro apps which I'm also starting to use more and more.

 

Thanks note taken im sure ill be fine.