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Funny how when a "leader" like the Woz speaks, people listen, but when a Waldorf school teacher tells that to his/her parents, the teacher is ridiculed.
Marc
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Old coot...
And he's prolly right
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Build 10074 features improvements to Cortana, the user interface, new Windows sounds, and much more. Oh, and the return of Aero Glass! Because that's what was stopping all those Windows 7 users from upgrading
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because that's what was stopping all those Windows 7 users from upgrading
For me, yes. Glass is really cool, and to go back to a Matel toy look of puke blue borders and caption bars along with bloodshot red close buttons was an eye sore (harhar) I never wanted to inflict upon myself. That and the damn tiles.
Happily, it looks like I can skip W8 entirely! ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
Marc
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Will someone tell me why we ever needed AeroGlass anyway?
So we can see through the window title bar? Big Whoop.
Why don't they just say uncle, and re-release windows 7 the way is was?
Seems a lot easier.....
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LOL I wonder why no one is asking to bring Luna back. 
Now that was even more awful, I'm still glad it was possible to turn it off. Aero on the other hand wasn't so bad, actually it was pretty cool at its time - but I'm talking about the Windows 7 version. The Vista implementation was really ugly in some aspects, I still wonder how it was possible to sign-off with this cyanide accent window borders.
Personally, I prefer the Windows 8 concept over the Windows 7 one because if I look at them side by side, Windows 7 looks cheesy to me while Windows 8 is more decent and unobtrusive, no more rounded window corners and transparency (except for the taskbar, but I wrote a little utility to get rid of it so that's not really an issue). The only real issue is that you cannot change the color of the window caption so using dark colors or black for the window frame makes them effectively unreadable.
I'm not a friend of the current Windows 10 style with static gray title bars, I really like the colorized ones. Even NT 3.1 would let you set the color . Looks like they're trying to bring the Visual Studio look to the operating system but in an amateurish way.
I guess it's hard to satisty everyone when it comes to design questions.
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Hey, I like Aero, and I don't mind wasting some cycles on prettifying the display. I can see why you might want to make this optional (a basic ARM processor in a tablet might be overwhelmed), but that's not the case for most desktop / laptop machines.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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IIRC turning it off gave a noticeable bump on laptop runtime due to reduced GPU load, which was why MS disabled it in Win8.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Today we are announcing our intent to phase out non-secure HTTP. Mozilla commits to making itself less relevant
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For the last six years you've heard us go on and on about this Roslyn thing and how it's the platform for the future and would change everything and that we were all-in on it and "it's going to be great just wait and see". Well, the wait is over. Go get your code generating
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Finally.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Live code analysers - I wonder if it will ever be possible to create an entire application by simply pressing CTRL+. over and over...
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As a C# guy, I'm a little offended this was announced by the VB team.
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In order to extend the benefits of Clang to C++ developers building apps for Windows, we have been working on an experimental implementation of Clang on Windows. "Clang, clang, clang went the trolley"
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Microsoft discontinued development of Windows Media Center in 2009, but enthusiasts have held out hope that the feature would get one more reprieve for Windows 10. Sorry, folks, that's not happening. I think there might be alternatives, folks
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Not many. XBMC and Plex (which is really just a branded XBMC) come to mind, but anything else?
And WMC did some things better than those guys. I like the WMC UI better.
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Those would be my first picks as well. And isn't XBMC open source? Give it the missing features 
TTFN - Kent
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Google cooks up an experimental way to write Android apps with a focus on speed. As long as you're willing to carry a mobile with a 400W power supply and dual graphics cards
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According to the FAA, there's a software bug in the 787 Dreamliner that can cause its electrical system to fail and, as a result, lead to "loss of control" of the plane. But why? The FAA says this is triggered by the aircraft's electrical generators, which could give out if they have been powered on continuously for over eight months. On the bright side: now you know the worst case for your flight delay
Aren't there grounds for having your "Professional Engineer" taken away from you?
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Ladies and gentlemen, the C programming language. It’s a classic. It is sleek, and spartan, and elegant. (Especially compared to its sequel, that bloated mess C++, which shares all the faults I’m about to describe.) It is blindingly, quicksilver fast, because it’s about as close to the bone of the machine as you can get. It is time-tested and ubiquitous. And it is terrifyingly dangerous. "They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the beast"
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The Peter Principle suggests that all employees manage to rise to the level of their incompetence. "Scientifically proven"
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At a Windows breakout session during Build 2015 today, Joe Belfiore, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s operating systems group, talked more about the company’s favorite new term: “Windows as a service.” "Give away the razor; sell the blades"
Or:
"The first hit is always free."
"'Will you walk into my parlour?' said the Spider to the Fly"
"The tenants arrive in the entrance hall here, and are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort and past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives."
"Once. Twice. Three times a lady."
OK, maybe not that last one.
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The article mentions Windows Store support for Win32 applications. I hope they are not planning to move desktop applications to be distributed exclusively through the store like metro apps.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I think/hope that it's just an option, but everything they demoed this week seemed to come with a "Universal app" requirement.
I also hope there will still be distribution methods other than the store.
TTFN - Kent
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