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Windows Blue 9364 Screenshots Show Feature Enhancements
An anonymous reader writes "As expected, a new pre-public version of Windows Blue (build 9364) has leaked online and it reveals a handful of features that are coming in the next big Microsoft Windows 8 update." Several sites have screenshots from the build; Hot Hardware says "Assuming this is all completely legitimate, the most obvious change pertains to the Metro UI, including greater flexibility in sizing Live Tiles and customizing the Start screen, particularly as the Personalize setting (among others, including Devices and Share) is now under the Settings charm. The Name Group feature for the Start menu looks a little more polished, too."
The only connection people already know between Windows and Blue is the Blue Screen of Death. In fact, it took me a minute to realize this wasn't about 9364 screenshots of BSODs.
Ah, but you can multitask now! http://pureinfotech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/snap-view-50-50-850x637.png
one of the featured screenshots being a calculator that will suck up every inch of my large desktop monitor, take that you 20 year old serial terminal in the other room and your fucking text based "windows"
Why is a Windows release named after its most famous failure screen? Is the marketing department that ignorant?
Because they're willing to be bold and daring.
My suggested Windows 8 slogan: "Nowhere to go but up!"
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
they can literally fuck off
By that, do you mean that at the moment, they are capable of fucking off, but they'll lose this capability when they fix the interface?
Hey, and now that we're on the subject anyway; what exactly is fucking off? I have trouble imagining how to have sexual intercourse with such an abstract concept named "off".
*sigh*, the use of the word "literally", is literally not always correct! It drives me figuratively crazy!
Maybe because liter is a metric unit?
I can get around the start menu, I can get around the interface changes, I can even deal with the "control panel" not remembering my settings (I always have to select small icons), but until they fix Windows 8 to enable the reason for Windows existance, easy interface for multi-tasking... then they can literally fuck off.
Dude, why would you possibly expect 'Microsoft Windows' to handle window management? And why would you want window management, and multiple monitors and stuff, when you could be squinting around your thumbs on a 10 inch tablet? Get with the Future!
The fact that having multiple monitors is cheaper and easier than it has ever been isn't a good thing, it's a temptation designed to corrupt and destroy the weak minded. Resist, brother, and embrace the all-full-screen-all-the-time-for-fuck-knows-what-reason future!
Microsoft Windows Tiles -- you don't know whether to pee or leave.
Table-ized A.I.
Sounds like a big opportunity for Linux and FVWM95!
Are you hoping that the word "goatsean" enters the dictionary? Id love to see the explanation!
Electronic Music Made Using Linux http://soundcloud.com/polyp
Well, what should we call them then? Lexicomrades?
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for being subtle.