Can I just mention that Daz and PGHammer are the most interesting people on this forum at this time? (sorry, Canouna) Well thought out and well presented posts, both of you. Thank you. Would that I could be so well spoken. Two very differing, but very refreshing, viewpoints. Again, thanks Daz and PGHammer.
Thanks, Canouna. I suppose it's time I started posting more instead of spreading the thanks ... just waiting on the Public Beta Win8 release.
Been out of country on business for a while and haven't had time to keep up with the latest on W8. When are we expecting the Public Beta Win8 release?
Thanks I think they are already reverse engineering W8 at hangar 19 only to find an Easter Egg proving Gates is an alien.
@jayblok Thanks for this, he is right and reflects my opinion Do you really think point 4 is a relevant point? SSDs will replace HDDs defragmentation will become obsolete. When tools become 'orphaned', it means w8 provides a particular one. If I don't like it I use my favorite anyway. Corporate customers (companies) have a administration. There is no unique client that has the right to decide which tools are installed. If they think IE is insecure, they disable it and use FF If they say WMP is insecure and phones home, they either disable it or install VLC. If they need a defragmetation tool they start / install it it as network service. If they want them (the employees) to work they'd disable metro. There is a general policy for ALL clients. Not one serious company will even think about a migration to w8. I don't know where M$ makes most of their money. Are it corporate/enterprise customers or private consumer? At least corporate/enterprise consumer are honest and pay for their licenses. W8 is no option for corporate/enterprise market. So you basically can reduce w8 OS to the new M$ app store / metro. It all depends on the success of it.
@ jayblok Another video I agree with. Thanks for posting. That's exactly what I mean about being taken out of an experience (classic desktop to metro) and then having to click and search through menus to get to where you want to go. It slows down productivity a lot and it's why I'm personally either going to disable Metro or simply not use Windows 8. And maybe things will improve with the BETA, but I really don't like the UI inconsistency.
@ kyeahy The point is that the guy doesn't want to be taken out of the desktop experience. Why would he want to go into Metro to access the control panel when the control panel does exist in the desktop experience which is what Metro links him to in the end anyway? Also to get to the uninstall part of Windows 7 it takes 3 clicks, but via Metro how you describe it it will take 2 or more clicks and you'll also have to type out "remove" The guy in that video also created a few other videos, and as a developer I can understand his concerns.