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Windows 8 - Yea or Nay?
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Bluesummers on 29 Oct 2012, 22:33 ---I'll stick with Vista for now.
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I run my boss's computer, and the rest of them; I didn't have a single installation of Vista ever.
However, with the end of support for XP only 18 months away (security is a big deal for me, working in clinical trials), I'm getting Windows 7 installed everywhere so that I can batten down the hatches again against Windows 8. This is purely a UI issue for me; I have good evidence that there are considerable improvements in performance in W8.
Omega Entity:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 29 Oct 2012, 01:02 ---Windows 8 is the biggest change in Windows since Windows 95 introduced the desktop.
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Wait, I thought 3.1 had a desktop too? I distinctly remember that being installed on our old Packard Bell before we upgraded to 95, and it had a desktop.
ackblom12:
3.1 was the first desktop, yes.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: ackblom12 on 30 Oct 2012, 01:40 ---3.1 was the first desktop, yes.
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There was little change in the operation of the minimal desktop between Windows 1 and Windows 3.11. Windows 95 introduced a new paradigm with a far more interactive desktop (actually, it was a pale imitation of the OS/2 Workplace Shell, which was a true Object-Oriented interface) which included the task bar and was integrated into Explorer (replacing the much more simplistic File Manager).
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