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Windows 8 - Yea or Nay?
LTK:
That sounds familiar to what I experienced when I tried to change the language of my version of Office to English. It can't. Microsoft wants me to pay €27 to download the language pack that the company itself uses. And you're not simply buying the English words, oh no. You are specifically paying for removing words from one language and replacing them with others. The words, you see, are free because you can get them if you install the package that gives you the English words as mouseover text, but if you want to get them without having to mouse over, you have to pay.
Brilliant logic, isn't it?
snalin:
OpenOffice! Like Office, just without bullshit!
And without some of the advanced functionality, but oh well.
cesium133:
--- Quote from: snalin on 30 Oct 2012, 08:14 ---OpenOffice! Like Office, just without bullshit!
And without some of the advanced functionality, but oh well.
--- End quote ---
I've learned the hard way to be careful about using OpenOffice's PowerPoint clone for equations. It has a really good equation editor (far better than the one in MS Office), but what it produces is not compatible with MS Office, so if you load it into Office, your equations will not display.
Bluesummers:
--- Quote from: snalin on 30 Oct 2012, 08:14 ---OpenOffice! Like Office, just without bullshit!
--- End quote ---
Indeed. I use OOo for everything...the most recent version can decipher the new MS-Office formats (docx, xlsx, etc)
LTK:
Spending ten minutes on Windows 8 on my dad's computer gives me these impressions:
Ease of use of the Metro interface on desktop computers is significantly lower because simple operations such as opening and closing programs are now performed by touchscreen-friendly controls, which means that opening a program involves going through at least one fullscreen operation, and closing it, wait for it, requires you to click and hold the LMB on the very top edge of the screen, then drag it all the way down to the bottom edge. If Microsoft is trying to win people over on their Metro interface, that doesn't help.
While Metro is substantially less flashy than Aero w.r.t. fading and animations, it still has some embellishments in the way of sliding screen elements, and these are impossible to disable within its own (extremely limited) options menu.
Bafflingly, the single feature that I would actually have liked about Windows 8 is not supported on desktop computers: Adjusting screen brightness.
Is this a fucking joke?
This guy wrote a software tool five years ago that dims your screen. It's 52 kb in size. To me, it just screams 'lazy', seeing that Microsoft haven't even bothered to implement a similar system for desktop computers, when it's already ubiquitous in phones, tablets and laptops.
Oh, and when I tried to run the aforementioned dimming tool, it was deemed unsafe and was blocked from running. The option to run it anyway only appeared after clicking 'more info'. [FOREBODE FOREBODE]
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