I don't think anything with M$ has changed since the days of Win 95.
How many versions of that were there... a, b, c iirc.

> I went to a local computer shop only to find the professional pulling
> what hair he has left out attempting to remove 8 from a machine someone
> brought to him to upgrade from windows 8 to windows 7. I searched google
> online for a method only to find many posts of how bad 8 is (To bad such
> posts are not helpful).
>
> If there are no answers to this, are there any suggestions on how to
> keep Microsofts efforts from #####ing us all? I am wondering if we could

M$ have always produced a poor version first when they do a new
edition as opposed to an upgrade. Then they can do a couple of
versions to correct the problems they should have resolved in the
first place. Three lots of profit for one version! Sorry i don't mean
to be cynical but fact is that has been the pattern.
win 95 a,b,c
win98, 2nd edition, Me
didn't use windows after that!