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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."
Because Wine is broken? I mean, other than that, well sure.
Me, I run XP in a VM. Works fine. I don't let it on the Internet because, well, it's Windows, and Microsoft has trained me not to trust them... but other than that, does everything I want it to. Office, my legit copy of developer studio, image processing apps, testing the Windows version of the software I develop... Do the same thing with linux, for that matter, except it's well designed enough not to hose itself just because there is a network connection.
Virtual machines: For those of us who are tired of solutions that don't work very well.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
I seriously doubt that MS is dropping the desktop or considering it legacy. The reality is that Microsoft is unifying their interface across phone, tablet and computer and since tablets are the future and tablets use touch, touch is the priority. This is obviously imperfect for those of us who still use traditional form-factor computers, but in 5-10 years we'll be a minority (if not sooner).
I think that Metro is actually Microsoft, for the first time in a long time, being ahead of the curve. I expect Apple will be following suit within a few years.
classic shell brings it back.
or if you're a paying customer, start8 by stardock.
I use Windows 8. I rarely ever see metro.
I find it useless and frustrating. Not because I think it's poorly designed. But because it's forced on the wrong device. My PC is not a tablet.
They're using their grammar skills there.
You can't do it anymore because they implemented search so you can just start typing for what you want and eliminate all those numbered steps. So old fashioned.
They're using their grammar skills there.
No one wants a degraded experience and whoever made the spec for LCD to only use the max and use software degradation tricks to still display should be taken out in a field and shot!
The old CRTs don't have a physical screen grid, it's just an electron beam in the back that can sweep over the screen and draw how many lines you want it to. On an LCD screen every pixel is a physical unit, they can't move or change size. "Whoever made the spec for LCD" only chose what was possible instead of the impossible. Personally I tend to blame the software if it must run in some specific resolution and games should be configurable so you can play them at high resolutions with low quality. There's no good excuse for why a game should do worse at rendering directly in high resolution instead of rendering in low resolution and then upscaling.
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What do grammar trolls have to do with anything? Grammar is about the syntax and structure, not about the definition of the word.
Wait. Around 11 minutes it shows desktop. And complains about something that works the same way as in Windows 7. And apparently he refuses to use Windows key, which was the easiest way to start programs in 7 and continues to be that in 8. (click and type a few letters. The same way he could have opened the control panel. Or searched the control panel to create recovery. Like in Windows 7.). Oh well, I changed from Unity to Gnome Classic and I guess I need to install some kind of Modern UI replacement for Windows as well. Sorry, I think I've seen enough of the video.
It is what it is.
I got used to launching stuff very rapidly by hitting Winkey + R + command + Enter
Still works on Vista, 7 and 8. Even better, the 'R' is optional.
No colour or religion ever stopped the bullet from a gun