Good grief MS, why?
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Dij the Cat just walked across my keyboard and somehow found the "Calculator" key I'd forgotten all about (it's a Logitech keyboard with a number of additional keys, most of which I don't use) And that brought up the Windows 10 calculator. First time I've seen it, and my word but that's bad. Tell me Mr Microsoft Developer: What possible reason is there for replacing the old (working) Win7 Calculator with a new one that almost fills a 22 inch monitor with a 20 button calculator (with memory) and 2cm high result display? Do you seriously think I am going so blind that I need to see numbers in huge mode (despite the rest of the system showing me "normal" text under 3mm high)? And not making it resizable? Even if you switch the stupid thing to "programmer mode" it's the same damn size, and frankly not a lot more use... For elephant's sake - how does this kind of rubbish get through their QA? :confused:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Maybe it's a new feature, but in Windows 10 build 11102 the calculator is resizable. At its smallest size, in Programmer mode, a button is 50 x 39 px. The window itself is 300x500px which doesn't take up very much screen area on my 2560x1600 px monitor. In Standard mode it is even smaller.
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Dij the Cat just walked across my keyboard and somehow found the "Calculator" key I'd forgotten all about (it's a Logitech keyboard with a number of additional keys, most of which I don't use) And that brought up the Windows 10 calculator. First time I've seen it, and my word but that's bad. Tell me Mr Microsoft Developer: What possible reason is there for replacing the old (working) Win7 Calculator with a new one that almost fills a 22 inch monitor with a 20 button calculator (with memory) and 2cm high result display? Do you seriously think I am going so blind that I need to see numbers in huge mode (despite the rest of the system showing me "normal" text under 3mm high)? And not making it resizable? Even if you switch the stupid thing to "programmer mode" it's the same damn size, and frankly not a lot more use... For elephant's sake - how does this kind of rubbish get through their QA? :confused:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
OriginalGriff wrote:
Tell me Mr Microsoft Developer: What possible reason is there for replacing the old (working) Win7 Calculator with a new one that almost fills a 22 inch monitor with a 20 button calculator (with memory) and 2cm high result display?
Microsoft (well, Sinofsky really, but now they're stuck with it) wants you to have the same experience whether you're using their OS on a desktop system with a wall-sized projection screen, or one of the smaller cell phones. It is imperative to them that users feel right at home as they switch between different kinds of devices running Windows. So, the problem isn't that the experience isn't the same on a 22" monitor as it is on a 4" touchscreen, its that you didn't connect a 4" touchscreen to your desktop system :) Yeah, they're kind of out of touch with their users these days.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Dij the Cat just walked across my keyboard and somehow found the "Calculator" key I'd forgotten all about (it's a Logitech keyboard with a number of additional keys, most of which I don't use) And that brought up the Windows 10 calculator. First time I've seen it, and my word but that's bad. Tell me Mr Microsoft Developer: What possible reason is there for replacing the old (working) Win7 Calculator with a new one that almost fills a 22 inch monitor with a 20 button calculator (with memory) and 2cm high result display? Do you seriously think I am going so blind that I need to see numbers in huge mode (despite the rest of the system showing me "normal" text under 3mm high)? And not making it resizable? Even if you switch the stupid thing to "programmer mode" it's the same damn size, and frankly not a lot more use... For elephant's sake - how does this kind of rubbish get through their QA? :confused:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Dij the Cat just walked across my keyboard and somehow found the "Calculator" key I'd forgotten all about (it's a Logitech keyboard with a number of additional keys, most of which I don't use) And that brought up the Windows 10 calculator. First time I've seen it, and my word but that's bad. Tell me Mr Microsoft Developer: What possible reason is there for replacing the old (working) Win7 Calculator with a new one that almost fills a 22 inch monitor with a 20 button calculator (with memory) and 2cm high result display? Do you seriously think I am going so blind that I need to see numbers in huge mode (despite the rest of the system showing me "normal" text under 3mm high)? And not making it resizable? Even if you switch the stupid thing to "programmer mode" it's the same damn size, and frankly not a lot more use... For elephant's sake - how does this kind of rubbish get through their QA? :confused:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Dij the Cat just walked across my keyboard and somehow found the "Calculator" key I'd forgotten all about (it's a Logitech keyboard with a number of additional keys, most of which I don't use) And that brought up the Windows 10 calculator. First time I've seen it, and my word but that's bad. Tell me Mr Microsoft Developer: What possible reason is there for replacing the old (working) Win7 Calculator with a new one that almost fills a 22 inch monitor with a 20 button calculator (with memory) and 2cm high result display? Do you seriously think I am going so blind that I need to see numbers in huge mode (despite the rest of the system showing me "normal" text under 3mm high)? And not making it resizable? Even if you switch the stupid thing to "programmer mode" it's the same damn size, and frankly not a lot more use... For elephant's sake - how does this kind of rubbish get through their QA? :confused:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Dij the Cat just walked across my keyboard and somehow found the "Calculator" key I'd forgotten all about (it's a Logitech keyboard with a number of additional keys, most of which I don't use) And that brought up the Windows 10 calculator. First time I've seen it, and my word but that's bad. Tell me Mr Microsoft Developer: What possible reason is there for replacing the old (working) Win7 Calculator with a new one that almost fills a 22 inch monitor with a 20 button calculator (with memory) and 2cm high result display? Do you seriously think I am going so blind that I need to see numbers in huge mode (despite the rest of the system showing me "normal" text under 3mm high)? And not making it resizable? Even if you switch the stupid thing to "programmer mode" it's the same damn size, and frankly not a lot more use... For elephant's sake - how does this kind of rubbish get through their QA? :confused:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
I looked at the headline for this item in the CP Daily News email and thought, "I bet that's an OriginalGriff post".
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Dij the Cat just walked across my keyboard and somehow found the "Calculator" key I'd forgotten all about (it's a Logitech keyboard with a number of additional keys, most of which I don't use) And that brought up the Windows 10 calculator. First time I've seen it, and my word but that's bad. Tell me Mr Microsoft Developer: What possible reason is there for replacing the old (working) Win7 Calculator with a new one that almost fills a 22 inch monitor with a 20 button calculator (with memory) and 2cm high result display? Do you seriously think I am going so blind that I need to see numbers in huge mode (despite the rest of the system showing me "normal" text under 3mm high)? And not making it resizable? Even if you switch the stupid thing to "programmer mode" it's the same damn size, and frankly not a lot more use... For elephant's sake - how does this kind of rubbish get through their QA? :confused:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Guessing your cat also maximised the app ... by default under win10 it does not occupy the whole screen, unless you are running in tablet mode. Perhaps you need MS to take over you preferences, would appear that this small decision is beyond your reach ... time for the pussy to take over, pussy whipped much?
