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are they still trying to get rid of "tradition desktop"? smark fu**
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Look at the bright side. (specially for you) When you install Windows 8 on your Mac, you will not miss the Aero-Glass. Since it's gone you will not feel that you are missing anything. A complete Windows experience on a Mac. 
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Rutvik Dave wrote: A complete Windows Windows 3.1 experience
FTFY
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Windows 8(.1) does have one good think!!!
You can to choose NOT install it!!!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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Well they do have some new security features like.......
Hide the setting so it is more difficult to disable automatic updates or turn of UAC.
And of course if UAC is disabled then some Apps won’t work correctly and won't tell you why 
And many more security features.
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Christian Graus wrote:
Can't think of a thing.... |
Even that sucks, so it's perhaps the world's first case of recursive suckage.
Mind you, it's OK for phones and tabs.
Where was it that we were listing things that different OSes were best at, and the only thing we could come up with for iOS was "connecting to itunes"?
It seems that even that is no longer the case[^].
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Thinking back to the time when it was first sold for about £20 in the UK, I can now say to myself it was the best £20 I never spent.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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I like it.
Access everything with the search.
Tiles, much quicker than any start menu item.
Defender, everything safe.
Looks cool.
Note sure what people are bitching about. Just learn how to use it.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Rage wrote: Access everything with the search.
I can do that already, but a file manager is a lot more efficient, 99% of the time.
Rage wrote: Tiles, much quicker than any start menu item.
I have in excess of 300 start menu items, each of them accessible with two clicks. How many dozens of swipes would it take for that -- also bearing in mind that a lot of programs with completely different functions have similar names, and that a lot have names that don't actually tell you what they do?
Rage wrote: Defender, everything safe.
Defender, a big target.Rage wrote: Looks cool.
Like Hell.
My desktop looks cool, as do lots of other people's. Win 'ate looks like baby blocks -- nothing cool to see here; move along.
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Rage wrote: Access everything with the search.
The start menu does exactly the same thing without switching you to a completely different screen to do it
Rage wrote: Tiles, much quicker than any start menu item
We used to have Desktop icons before search, and that's effectively what the Start screen is (or just a more integrated version of the Apple Launchpad)
Rage wrote: Defender, everything safe.
I have Windows Defender on Win7. And it's not safe. None of them are truly safe.
Rage wrote: Looks cool
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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OK, I think everything is subjective, so maybe there is no point in discussing here. I only find too bad how everything new always "suck".
According to the amount of "xxx sucks" posts, I suppose most people here must still use WinNT with Visual Studio 6 on their computers, because these were soooo better than everything that was released after them... 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Rage wrote: How much time do you need to navigate to an executable while it takes less than one second to type it ?
That's assuming that you know the name of the executable, which, as I said, can have nothing to do with its function, e.g:
- "Arachnophilia" has got nothing to do with spiders.
- "Flashpeak" has got nothing to do with volcanoes.
- "Wink" has got nothing to do with cute girls.
- "iSpring" has got nothing to do with Tigger.
Rage wrote: 300 menu items ? Why would you need them if you can search for them ?
How about because, for example, I have 18 different programs (many of which have multiple executables) for creating/editing diagrams/graphics.
All I have to do, with the start menu, is go to the "Graphics" sub-menu, and all of them are listed for me there, so I can choose the one I want.
What search string should I use, to match that perfect functionality "All graphics/diagram editors"?
And arranging baby-blocks by program type is a damned sight more time-consuming than dragging menu items to different sub-menus -- not to mention that you'd still have to sweep through page after page to find the program groups.
Rage wrote: And you'd at least need to scroll or change pages, because no 300 items hold on one menu page.
Perhaps your degree course should have included something about using sub-menus -- but if you don't use a computer for lots of different things, e.g. only for Visual Studio, e-mail, and browsing the Interwebs, the OS GUI is pretty irrelevant: they'll all enable that for you efficiently enough.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yes, I eventually think you are right, Windows 8 sucks.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Hwa?
What just happened, there?
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I have deleted my post, since obviously the subject is too, well, subjective., and I perfectly understood why Win7 is better suited to your work model than Win8, and why Win8 "sucks".
Plus, your answers are getting very condescending to me (yes, even _I_ happen to know what is a sub-menu), and I have no intention in being bashed just because I happen to be the only one to like Win8.
Oh well, even writing these lines is childish. 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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I'm not condescending; I just take the piss.
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Rage wrote: I only find too bad how everything new always "suck".
That's not true.
Only the new stuff that sucks sucks. You'll see plenty of praise for good new stuff.
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Chris Maunder wrote: We used to have Desktop icons before search, and that's effectively what the Start screen is (or just a more integrated version of the Apple Launchpad)
My favourite iOS/Android function: Stack Desktop icons to create directories.
That should have been in every OS GUI since day dot -- and it's still not in Windows!
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Rage wrote: Defender, everything safe.
*phew* I didn't realise you were joking until I saw this.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Yes, improved performance in virtually every aspect of the system is awful...
Performance Tests[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Yup. That'll last.
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You know every OS is faster when you first install it, right ?
I installed, and ended up pulling out the notebook battery, after an hour of updates installing ( on super fast internet, it was not downloading anything ), and messages like 'Windows will restart in 2 days to finish installation'.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Hey Christian, it might be time to change your sig to "Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista AND Windows 8"!
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Actually, yes, I am planning to do that.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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1) It's not OSX.
2) Under the covers, it's an improvement on Windows 7. (Even though I've adapted by putting everything I need on the desktop or taskbar, and replaced all the full screen metro crap apps, I'd rather they just made a Windows 7.1. I do miss Aero.)
3) The ribbon on Explorer has proven useful when turning on/off "Show hidden files".
I should add that the start screen was helpful the other day. I'd installed an app, though I'd checked to put it on the desktop and hadn't. I had no idea what the executable name was (it wasn't what you would have though based on the installer and company.) I opened the start screen and there it was.
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