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Windows 8 - Yea or Nay?
Bluesummers:
Do your monitors (I'm talking to all of you who've had monitor backlight/hue/etc issue) use an SVGA port? (3-row, 15-pin DB-style port) Or does it use HDMI?
It's possible that Windows 8's hardware controls rely on a "higher-order" digital interface, either USB or HDMI 1.4. If the touchscreen uses USB, there's no guarantee that the USB control of the monitor extends to the options otherwise managed by the OSD. I'm just surmising with your monitors, but that's exactly how larger flat-panel displays work, and I'd assume Microsoft would try to mirror those methods.
LTK:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 04 Nov 2012, 12:31 ---Doesn't it repeat on holding? Mine does. Anyway, how often do you want to change it - a laptop is used in different circumstances, which makes it necessary (I presume Windows gets access to the function buttons that laptops have built in, but a separate desktop monitor doesn't give that access).
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I turn it down every night, after the sun goes down. If I was using the monitor's controls, I'd have to bring the brightness down from 100 to 0 in order for it to be at a comfortable level. Takes about fourteen seconds to do that. The shortcut to Dimmer I have on my taskbar does it in less than one second.
--- Quote from: Bluesummers on 04 Nov 2012, 19:35 ---Do your monitors (I'm talking to all of you who've had monitor backlight/hue/etc issue) use an SVGA port? (3-row, 15-pin DB-style port) Or does it use HDMI?
It's possible that Windows 8's hardware controls rely on a "higher-order" digital interface, either USB or HDMI 1.4. If the touchscreen uses USB, there's no guarantee that the USB control of the monitor extends to the options otherwise managed by the OSD. I'm just surmising with your monitors, but that's exactly how larger flat-panel displays work, and I'd assume Microsoft would try to mirror those methods.
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As far as I'm aware, modern video cards have foregone VGA ports entirely, and instead use DVI ports predominantly. HDMI ports on video cards are a relatively recent addition, to accomodate people hooking up their tv's to their computers. My own monitor has a VGA and a DVI port, but no HDMI, and my dad's monitor is probably the same.
If Microsoft simply ceases to accomodate features for DVI-controlled monitors and switches support to USB and HDMI instead, that's even more evidence that they're completely out of whack.
Also, I found another 'interesting' change in the Metro interface: What do you do when you are on a webpage and you want to access the (auto-hiding) URL bar? First person to guess correctly gets a free meme.
Lupercal:
Interesting. I remember seeing some early videos of Windows 8 vs the new Ubuntu, and people seemed to prefer Ubuntu. It would probably be more popular if it were more universal (for example, my university only accepted files that were MS Word, meaning Mac users had to get Word for Mac). Even though I've only ever used Windows, I'm considering a switch seeing as the options are:
Die a slow horrible death continuing to use Vista
Upgrade to Win 7 (seems logical, may still have a three-year-old free upgrade)
Buy Windows 8 against all the common sense on the internet
Switch to Ubuntu.
Windows seems to have alienated users since Vista came out, really. Only recently have I realised what a irritating system it is to use once you want to do more than just look at lolcats. Sometimes seems like Windows, as an OS, can rather stifle the humble laptop.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Lupercal on 05 Nov 2012, 13:14 ---Upgrade to Win 7 (seems logical, may still have a three-year-old free upgrade)
Buy Windows 8 against all the common sense on the internet
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Use the Windows 7 to get the cheap upgrade to Windows 8. Then get a free app to add a Windows 7 style Start button back to the desktop. If you're prepared to shell out an extra $5 you can get a similar app that does the same, but also persuades Windows 8 to boot to the desktop rather than the start screen. Once you've sorted the desktop interface, you can take advantage of the fact that there are consistent reports that Windows 8 performs significantly faster.
--- Quote ---Windows seems to have alienated users since Vista came out, really. Only recently have I realised what a irritating system it is to use once you want to do more than just look at lolcats. Sometimes seems like Windows, as an OS, can rather stifle the humble laptop.
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Windows 95 alienated Windows 3.11 users. Windows Millennium edition alienated everyone - worse than Vista; really. Windows 2000 alienated the people that wanted to stay with a DOS-based Windows (i.e. 98 - see Millennium edition). Vista alienated everyone who had started to feel that XP was the final long-term state of Windows. Windows 3.11, 98, XP, and 7 didn't alienate people, simply because they were each a significant improvement on their predecessors, but with minimal change in the UI. In each case the internal product number change was no a whole digit, but a point change.
Bluesummers:
--- Quote from: LTK on 05 Nov 2012, 13:07 ---Also, I found another 'interesting' change in the Metro interface: What do you do when you are on a webpage and you want to access the (auto-hiding) URL bar? First person to guess correctly gets a free meme.
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