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Are you going to wait for Windows 9?
TaoPhoenix:
From one of the articles from above:
"That lack of multiple window support forced Nielsen to dub it "one of the worst aspects of Windows 8 for power users."
Is that true even in desktop mode? Can someone clarify/confirm that That would be enough to keep me from using Win 8.
Edvard:
At the risk of sounding flip, I wasn't even waiting for Windows 8. :-\
-40hz (November 21, 2012, 06:08 AM)
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;D :Thmbsup:
Try to remember DOS 3.0. No 'undelete' command. Peter Norton made some cash.
Fast forward to IPhone OS. No 'cut-paste'. Many programmers made some cash.-anandcoral (November 21, 2012, 10:40 AM)
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Great observation, anandcoral. I always suspected that's why many of Windows' built-in tools left so much room for expansion or replacement.
That could be due simply to a "it works, don't fancy it up" design philosophy, but I often wondered...
No multiple window support?
Write tiling or floating window manager for Win8; make some cash.
In fact, if that's the design philosophy for Win8, a tiling window managerw would fit in quite nicely, though I'm not a big fan myself...
Stoic Joker:
From one of the articles from above:
"That lack of multiple window support forced Nielsen to dub it "one of the worst aspects of Windows 8 for power users."
Is that true even in desktop mode? Can someone clarify/confirm that That would be enough to keep me from using Win 8.
-TaoPhoenix (November 21, 2012, 11:53 AM)
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The fact that this question even exist is a testament to the steaming pile of FUD that's flying around the internet.
Not only no, but hell no that isn't even vaguely true. The Windows 8 desktop is a desktop just like every other desktop all the way back to Win95.
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The start menu is "missing" in Windows 8 (Oh FFS) ... The Start Menu has been "Missing" since Win XP launched in 01. The Start Panel is what's actually "missing" in Windows 8. And I for one am actually tickled pink that the Start Menu has finally been taken out and shot in the head. Every time I get stuck in front of a machine that's been retro'd back to the start menu I feel like I've been instantly transported back to the 1870s, and am being forced to dig for potatoes with my teeth after my arms have been cut off!
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And regarding the Windows 8 is poised at the brink of enslaving us in a gilded cage which will turn us all into palpitating porridge based eye puppets crap ... Can we at least try to keep in mind that this is totally conjecture. Nothing is or has been proven or verified as fact. No internal secret memos have been exposed substantiating any of these claims ... It's total assumption pure and simple.
Because it just might actually be a really handy step forward in user interaction if people could refrain from fashionably shitting all over it long enough to learn how to use the god damn thing.
wraith808:
^ Ummm.... yeah. What he said. :Thmbsup:
... with less vitriol, though. :-[
tomos:
^ Ummm.... yeah. What he said. :Thmbsup:
... with less vitriol, though. :-[
-wraith808 (November 21, 2012, 02:02 PM)
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+1 & lol ;D
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