What's Up With Windows 10?
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JimmyRopes wrote:
I never could understand the concern about the start button. Once I got used to using the start page I never thought about the missing start button. Apparently, it was a big deal to people who are stuck in a rut.
My big deal with the lack of a Start button in the original Windows 8.0 release is that you had to hover the mouse over a tiny 4x4 pixel area in the bottom-left corner to get the popup that would bring up the Start page. Which is fine if you only have a single monitor or your primary monitor is your left-most one, or you don't use Remote Desktop in a window to connect to other Win8 machines. If you have a monitor to the left of your primary one, or have Win8 in an RDP window, then it's just too damned easy to overshoot that tiny bottom-left area, so getting the mouse in juuuuust the right 4x4 pixel space means you have to slow down to do some pixel-perfect clicking. This is no fun on a high-res monitor. I can't imagine it at 4K. Using the Windows key on its own as a shortcut to bring up the Start screen isn't an option either for machines being accessed through Remote Desktop, as it's the local machine that intercepts it, not the remote one. While I'm aware it's an option on mstsc.exe's Local Resources tab, that's about half a dozen clicks away...assuming I actually remember to do that each time I want to connect to a new machine (and then I never do, so I have to disconnect/reconnect to just set the option). The return of the Start button fixed all that. I use 8.1 on multiple machines every day, and at this point I don't see it as any different than 7. Every time I go back to an 8.0 machine however, I get bitten again by these idiosyncrasies right away--and after this much time, I can't blame this on anything being "new" to me.
Try the Windows Logo Key. :-D
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Understanding an interface is not necessarily the same as liking an interface. I can use the interface on Windows 8 but I still find it retarded on a pc. A tablet is another thing though.
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Try Windows 8.1 :-D
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To be fair, I work with people who regularly save files on their computer and who minutes later are completely unable to find those files. This is after using PCs for more than 20 years. A new OS would be more confusing than switching genders for these people.
MehGerbil wrote:
I work with people who regularly save files on their computer and who minutes later are completely unable to find those files.
Hopefully they are not developers. :-D
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The "All Apps" display in Windows 8 was a poor substitute.
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delete this;I never go to all apps unless I want to pin an app to the start page. :-D
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Try the Windows Logo Key. :-D
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I'll elaborate on #3. Microsoft has said all Lumia's running Windows 8+ will get Windows 10 for the phone. Source: Windows Central[^]
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I'm not following the logic. They're saying they'll all be upgraded, so you'll get Windows 10?!?
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Try the Windows Logo Key. :-D
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Try Windows 8.1. :-D There is a windows logo icon on the far left on the task bar.
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As much as I think the start button crowd has over blown this thing I'd have to maintain that one shouldn't have to know a key combination to get started using programs.
Try using the Windows Logo icon on the left end of the task bar in Windows 8.1. :-D
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Try Windows 8.1. :-D There is a windows logo icon on the far left on the task bar.
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Try Windows 8.1. :-D There is a windows logo icon on the far left on the task bar.
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I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopesI've brought that up as well. And I mentioned that's all that was needed to fix all of the issues I've had with 8.0. The only point I was trying to make is that without a big fat button onscreen to click to bring up the Start screen, there was an actual usability issue with the original Win8 release...and unlike a lot of people, I otherwise really didn't have any other problem with it.
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
Apparently, it was a big deal to people who are stuck in a rut have more than three programs installed on their computers
I have many more than 3 applications installed on my computer and do not see the problem you are having. Qute possibly you are in the wrong profession if you cannot adapt to a new interface. :~
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I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopesJimmyRopes wrote:
I have many more than 3 applications installed o
You ever use a hammer? Are you amazed by the hammer itself or do you perhaps actually want to build something with the hammer? And how useful would it be if your 'new' hammer, the one you normally use every day, started looking more like a 16 pound sledge? Or a hand saw with a place on it that allowed you to pound nails?
JimmyRopes wrote:
if you cannot adapt to a new interface.
I have quite a few tools that I use. They are useful because I know how to use them to produce what I need. If I am spending time learning how to use the tool, rather than actually producing what I need then it costs money. Real money. Maybe that real money doesn't matter to you when you need to learn a "new interface". Or perhaps, unlike me, you don't actually deal with real interfaces (I have created perhaps more than 100 interfaces to external systems in the last 10 years) and because everyone 'thinks' that they have a 'better' way to do something it means that I must deal with a vast array of "new interfaces" all the time. My experience would be that the people that think they have a 'better' way - do not. They have nothing more than a different way. But they do attempt to rationalize that it is better - sometimes going to extreme lengths to do so. And that of course doesn't account for the fact that at least sometimes it is in fact worse. As the law of averages would dictate.
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JimmyRopes wrote:
I have many more than 3 applications installed o
You ever use a hammer? Are you amazed by the hammer itself or do you perhaps actually want to build something with the hammer? And how useful would it be if your 'new' hammer, the one you normally use every day, started looking more like a 16 pound sledge? Or a hand saw with a place on it that allowed you to pound nails?
JimmyRopes wrote:
if you cannot adapt to a new interface.
I have quite a few tools that I use. They are useful because I know how to use them to produce what I need. If I am spending time learning how to use the tool, rather than actually producing what I need then it costs money. Real money. Maybe that real money doesn't matter to you when you need to learn a "new interface". Or perhaps, unlike me, you don't actually deal with real interfaces (I have created perhaps more than 100 interfaces to external systems in the last 10 years) and because everyone 'thinks' that they have a 'better' way to do something it means that I must deal with a vast array of "new interfaces" all the time. My experience would be that the people that think they have a 'better' way - do not. They have nothing more than a different way. But they do attempt to rationalize that it is better - sometimes going to extreme lengths to do so. And that of course doesn't account for the fact that at least sometimes it is in fact worse. As the law of averages would dictate.
If after 10 years in the business it takes you a long time to get oriented on a new system you need to examine if you are in the right endeavor. Perhaps accounting or sales may suit you better? Having seen very large changes in the industry over the past 41 years I don't see what the big deal was about Windows 8. It wasn't perfect and a few tweaks in Windows 8.1 have made it even more usable, but the basic functionality didn't change. I was able, within a few days of needing a cheat sheet, to do everything using Windows 8 as I was using Windows 7. What a lot of people don't realize is that you can do anything you did under Windows 7, albeit the way you did it is a little different. Some things like the administrative menu (right button in lower left corner of screen) were an improvement. Having gone from coding sheets that you submitted to a key punch operator and all the iterations culminating in the modern UI I don't find it a problem when someone moves my cheese. In fact I like learning new ways of doing things. That is why I chose this industry. It keeps my mind working in old age.
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I've brought that up as well. And I mentioned that's all that was needed to fix all of the issues I've had with 8.0. The only point I was trying to make is that without a big fat button onscreen to click to bring up the Start screen, there was an actual usability issue with the original Win8 release...and unlike a lot of people, I otherwise really didn't have any other problem with it.
dandy72 wrote:
unlike a lot of people, I otherwise really didn't have any other problem with it.
Strange that you would bring up Windows 8 deficiencies when Windows 8.1 has already fixed the problem you were having.
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dandy72 wrote:
unlike a lot of people, I otherwise really didn't have any other problem with it.
Strange that you would bring up Windows 8 deficiencies when Windows 8.1 has already fixed the problem you were having.
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I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopesJimmyRopes wrote:
Strange that you would bring up Windows 8 deficiencies when Windows 8.1 has already fixed the problem you were having.
What I was responding to, specifically, was this: > I never could understand the concern about the start button. So all I was saying is that the button's absence was a legitimate concern with 8.0, which as we've both pointed out, has been addressed with 8.1. I see nothing strange about pointing out what was broken in 8.0 and is now ok again with 8.1.
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JimmyRopes wrote:
Strange that you would bring up Windows 8 deficiencies when Windows 8.1 has already fixed the problem you were having.
What I was responding to, specifically, was this: > I never could understand the concern about the start button. So all I was saying is that the button's absence was a legitimate concern with 8.0, which as we've both pointed out, has been addressed with 8.1. I see nothing strange about pointing out what was broken in 8.0 and is now ok again with 8.1.
dandy72 wrote:
So all I was saying is that the button's absence was a legitimate concern with 8.0, which as we've both pointed out, has been addressed with 8.1.
I see nothing strange about pointing out what was broken in 8.0 and is now ok again with 8.1.I never had a problem with pointing at the corner in Windows 8 so in my opinion it was never broken. People like you did have a problem which was addressed in Windows 8.1, but that doesn't make it a problem for all of us and I still don't understand what the problem was as I didn't have a problem. As I have stated I don't understand what the problem was. Having said that I don't have a problem the way it is in Windows 8.1 either.
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dandy72 wrote:
So all I was saying is that the button's absence was a legitimate concern with 8.0, which as we've both pointed out, has been addressed with 8.1.
I see nothing strange about pointing out what was broken in 8.0 and is now ok again with 8.1.I never had a problem with pointing at the corner in Windows 8 so in my opinion it was never broken. People like you did have a problem which was addressed in Windows 8.1, but that doesn't make it a problem for all of us and I still don't understand what the problem was as I didn't have a problem. As I have stated I don't understand what the problem was. Having said that I don't have a problem the way it is in Windows 8.1 either.
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I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopesJust try it. RDP into a Windows 8.0 machine, and have the RDP session running in a window. Don't have it remap the Win-key to the remote machine. Now try to quickly get exactly on the corner for the popup to show up. It's an exercise in frustration. That being said, and I think it's worth repeating, I have no complaint whatsoever with Windows 8.1, and those who to this day still bitch about it are simply part of the group that's already going to be unhappy with any type of change.
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Just try it. RDP into a Windows 8.0 machine, and have the RDP session running in a window. Don't have it remap the Win-key to the remote machine. Now try to quickly get exactly on the corner for the popup to show up. It's an exercise in frustration. That being said, and I think it's worth repeating, I have no complaint whatsoever with Windows 8.1, and those who to this day still bitch about it are simply part of the group that's already going to be unhappy with any type of change.
I'll have to take your comment about RDP without trying it as I don't have a Windows 8 machine to remote into. That would be a legitimate problem, or should say the only legitimate problem anyone has raised that I am aware of. Most of the time it is a case of things being different rather than things being broken. I agree about Windows 8.1 and that some people are going to be unhappy with any type of change. I am sorry to have taken you as one of them. I was mistaken. :sigh:
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