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Hi, I'm (on a) New (computer)!
ackblom12:
No worries.
I will give them some defense on the design choice, and that is that they are going for a long haul design choice. If the Surface does well, then they already have a pc replacement device os that can still run all the software that you likely already own and use. It will make the transition pretty seamless one tablets become the norm.
Of course if the Surface fails then Metro is pretty fucked.
I'm pretty seriously switching over to Linux when Valve finishes making Steam compatible though.
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pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Pilchard123 on 18 Aug 2012, 12:31 ---Funny how nobody is getting Fail8
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Well, that could be because they're not time travellers or MSDN subscribers (though you can now get hold of a time-limited trial based on the RTM code).
--- Quote from: Pilchard123 on 18 Aug 2012, 13:44 ---I just think it's a little silly to suddenly all but axe the UI that people have got used to over the past however-many-years
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"All but axed" as in "kept", eh?
--- Quote ---In order to support existing Windows applications, and for applications which are not suited to Metro, Microsoft is keeping the old Windows desktop running in Windows 8 alongside the Metro-style user interface.
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Kugai:
Still using XP Pro
I reserve judgemnt on 8 - Especially after the Vista fiasco
Pilchard123:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 18 Aug 2012, 14:24 ---Well, that could be because they're not time travellers or MSDN subscribers (though you can now get hold of a time-limited trial based on the RTM code).
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Oops. I used it on quite a few of my friends laptops at college so I just assumed it was released. I feel something of a prat now.
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 18 Aug 2012, 14:24 ---"All but axed" as in "kept", eh?
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The desktop is still there, but unless the version that I used has changed much (it probably has if it was a preview), it throws Metro at you if you so much as sneeze near it, the start menu and taskbar are hiding somewhere off-screen, and the bar at the top of Explorer windows is replaced by that dreadful ribbon thing. I suppose we shall just have to wait and see.
pwhodges:
I haven't bothered to try Windows 8 yet, but I expect to have access to it shortly (I'm a computer manager in a university). Microsoft knows that it cannot afford to alienate its business customers too much - hence, for instance, the fact that support on Windows XP is not yet ended (compare with Apple's support which is for only current and previous systems, hence about two years). So I expect that it will be possible to make Metro less intrusive than you describe; but that's a guess based on my feeling about commercial realism.
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