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Wrong forum. How about putting it on your blog?
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Which forum should I use?
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This one[^]
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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It was Microsoft that advertised that I should be engaged with this website. As you are well respected by the public, and because it is in public view; what is wrong with opinions you don't like?
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Nothing, as long as they remain just that: opinions. When they become trolling...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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ColborneGreg wrote: At the time vista came out I was forced to upgrade downgrade to Windows XP,
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Windows 98 to Windows XP could be considered a downgrade lol.
I never used Vista, at the time Vista came out I was still using Windows 98.
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ColborneGreg wrote: Windows 98 to Windows XP could be considered a downgrade lol.
Are you kidding? 98 was the worst OS they ever did except for Windows Millenium. 98 was just 95 with a bunch of extras and all those fancy extras just caused problems.
XP was the first stable OS. I still use it. It works great.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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XP could not control the IRQS and that was an extreme downgrade.
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It'll all be OK when Windows 9 is released 
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Windows OneCore; rebranded "Windows RT" or Windows Metro.
OneCore is the basis for Xbox One, Windows Phone, and Metro.
Windows OneCore well bring more experience to world you do not like.
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You like Win8 - we get that.
The rest of the world (pretty much) thinks it's a huge waste of HDD space and is waiting patiently for it to die a quiet death and be buried in an unmarked electronic grave, unmourned.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I disagree.
Why does it need a grave? Can't we just incinerate it and not waste more electronic real estate interring it? It doesn't deserve that much respect.
Come on, people... Let's be efficient!
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So ColborneGreg has somewhere he can go every year and cry? 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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That's simultaneously sad and sad, for both possible meanings of "sad".
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Incinerate it?
Why not just leave the road-pizza-wanna-be for the crows to pick at?
A sort of reminder to others . . . if there are others like MicroSloth
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I get that you don't like it, and everyone that comes in contact with it does not like it.
That is until I show them what it can do, I wish I had the opportunity to show you.
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ColborneGreg wrote:
I get that you don't like it, and everyone that comes in contact with it does not like it.
That is until I show them what it can do, I wish I had the opportunity to show you. |
As long as this doesn't end with "Just step into my van and I'll show you..."
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To be fair, I like Windows 8, I just think Metro is a waste of space - installed a start menu replacement and happily ignored it ever since.
It does perform better on the same hardware, but I guess the basic functionality of an O/S isn't so important nowadays
I do hope they see the light a bit on Win9 though, else I may have to consider moving my skills to another platform - while I don't mind Win8, there's not much point getting skilled on a platform that is so unpopular.
I'm hoping for:
* Proper support for XAML-like stuff in native desktop app's.
* Removal, or at least demphasis of the New UI.
... and that's about it.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I'm sure that if I sat down and invested a lot of time and effort (and swearing, let's not forget the swearing - there was enough of that the first time I had to work out how to shut it down...) it would be a good OS.
But...it was too much of a "Metro is where you are going, like it or not" approach; too phone centric. Forcing a new UI on people isn't the best way to keep customer loyalty. Particularly when there is no obvious benefit, just a lot of frustration for "normal" users.
Yes, you could quickly find apps to change it back to something like what you were used to - but then why "upgrade" at all? Normal users don't care about the things our resident MS Fanboy does: they want to open Excel, open Chrome, open email, and get on with their work. Not scream at the screen because you can't find anything or work out how to shut it down!
Hopefully, MS will learn from this - they did with XP / Vista / Win7 - but I suspect they will do it again later. 
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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I agree absolutely - the new UI has been forced down peoples necks. I like the Metro UI on a phone. I'm pretty sure it would be OK on a tablet, but on a desktop (let alone a server) its bat-sh*t insane.
I use my PC a lot for musical endeavours, and me and my son use it for gaming - the improved memory usage and disk performance pay for itself in these areas. For many people, I can see the upgrade doesn't make so much sense. My personal take is that it's a better O/S in spite of the GUI "improvements", not because of them.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Interesting. Anecdotal, I know, but I'm the exact opposite:
- Stood in line to purchase Win 95 at midnight.
- Purchased 98 within the first week.
- Switched to 2000 instead of ME, so dodged that bullet.
- Purchased XP within the first week.
- Installed Vista (via MSDN) the day the disc was delivered.
- Installed 7 (via MSDN) the day it was available for download.
Have zero interest in 8. Tried it several times on other people's machines, so I'm not basing this off of pure speculation. I prefer skeumorphism and discoverable UIs.
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The UI needs hard core work, and it not the reason why 8 is amazing.
A lot of people will get to see the potential of the operating system is by using Xbox One, which uses Windows RT as the core.
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