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Well Microsoft 1/10 for effort with the Start Button but at least you can boot to desktop, a small step in the right direction.
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I rather suspect that 8.2 will bring some fairly major concessions to end users, given that some of the barriers to success were pushed, have voluntarily resigned.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: some of the barriers to success were pushed, have voluntarily resigned
The problem there being that they'll probably be replaced by uncreative stuffed suits.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: they'll probably be replaced by other uncreative stuffed suits
FTFY!
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Button? Wot button?
It looks like an instruction to the user to start playing with baby blocks.
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NormDroid wrote: Well Microsoft 1/10 for effort with the Start Button but at least you can boot to desktop, a small step in to the right direction target.
Dear Microsoft, most of us have a PC. 
Veni, vidi, vici.
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That's pretty much Blamers Plan: move us all away from PC's and to Microsoft Devices.
I don't know about you, but I find coding on a tablet with a "soft" keyboard and no mouse to be strangely relaxing. Particularly when I removed C# from my Nexus 7 so I wouldn't try and do it again... 
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As there is a move towards Ultrabooks, a touch screen UI really does start to make sense. I've been using Ultrabooks for about a year now, and I find going back to my ordinary laptop is very frustrating.
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I confess that I keep tapping my laptop screen, so a hybrid isn't a bad idea, but to get full mouse/keyboard functionality, multi-touch would have to be extended to ridiculous levels -- similarly to the problem with modern FPS games, where it takes 13 fingers to tap all the keys required (in the right order, of course) to aim and shoot a gun.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I don't know about you, but I find coding on a tablet with a "soft" keyboard and no mouse to be strangely relaxing. Particularly when I removed C# from my Nexus 7 so I wouldn't try and do it again...
I have never tried it.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Question: Can you upgrade an existing Windows 8 version or do you need to reinstall the works? 
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Theoretically, you should just be able to upgrade the Win8 version (effectively it's W8 SP1).
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Theoretically
That's really reassuring 
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I haven't actually tried it yet (hence the reason I refuse to say "definitely").
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Why on earth would you want to reinstall The Works[^]
"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 miss it! The document types were so charmingly incompatible with all other software... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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They're going to be well pissed off when they sober up and realise this.
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PB 369,783 wrote: when they sober up
 In Glasgow? 
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So they're learning how not to be unintelligible by learning to talk like idiots?
Are there other planets? I'm getting sick of living on this one.
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They will never outperform Madrid's Mayor (and wife of our ex-prime-minister Jose Mª Aznar) Mrs. Ana Botella (let me say that botella is translated as bottle... who knows what she was on...).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiMVJfAwUAs[^]
Pure embarrassment!
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Her English is better than my Spanish! 
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Probably, but nothing that you can change in two weeks... it is a pity to see those people who are representatives of a society to perform that way... 
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Joan Murt wrote: but nothing that you can change in two weeks
You are severely overestimating the British ability to learn foreign languages. I learned French for 3 years at school. All I remember is "Le singe est sur la branche", and that was via Eddie Izzard. I'm not even sure about the spelling, but that doesn't seem to matter in French anyway, seeing as they only sound about 50% of the letters.
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I was not implying that any English person could learn perfectly any other language under the sun in two weeks, I was simply saying that, in those two weeks, anyone could speak any language better than that woman in the video speaks English... 
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