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Windows 8.1 Update Released, With Improvements For Non-Touch Hardware
DroidJason1 (3589319) writes "Microsoft has released the highly anticipated Windows 8.1 Update, adding numerous improvements for non-touch consumers based on feedback. It is also a required update for Windows 8.1, otherwise consumers will no get any future security updates after May 2014. Most of the changes in the update are designed to appease non-touch users, with options to show apps on the desktop taskbar, the ability to see show the taskbar above apps, and a new title bar at the top of apps with options to minimize, close, or snap apps."
It's not a matter of learning something new. [....] seem to gloss over functionality in favor of flash.
Exactly! if you bothered learning something new, like keyboard shortcuts (or gestures for the touchy-feely types), you would not need the flash and glam of animations and wasted display space to hold your hand while performing rudimentary tasks that once you use are easily remembered and do not require the wasted time or space (e.g. closing a window).
Try pressing Windows+X in Windows 8 and tell me that does not have power users in mind? How about the option to open a command prompt, root command prompt, or powershell terminal directly from any Explorer window that opens in that directory? That was surely just for Grandma.
Serious question: Do you still pee your pants because there are no instructions tattooed on your arm? That's quite intuitive, too, once you get the hang of it. Everything is new at some point and instead of advocating castration, you should try to learn how to use those new things.
Translation:
"I'm too old to change and I don't realize that the future belongs to new people who haven't leaned all my bad habits yet."