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08-12-2013, 06:57 PM | #17 | |
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08-12-2013, 07:42 PM | #18 | |
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Metro is in no way faster or more convenient than the start bar. Just keep that and provide larger desktop icons that are live and you've got your "tiles" This whole corners hot zones to pull up menus and functions is really disjointed as this stage of its implementation. And, yes I had both my mother and girlfriend confused as **** trying to use my laptop. Now, count me as someone that actually thinks they're done some good things with their new mobile platform.
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08-12-2013, 08:09 PM | #19 | |
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Contrast that with the intuitive ease of use that Mac products tend to have out of the box. I found myself having to google simple shit like, "Where is the control panel in windows 8." It was ridiculous. I appreciate their effort to unite the their mobile platform with their PC OS, but damn.. the implementation was lacking.
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08-12-2013, 09:00 PM | #20 |
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We got a Tab 2 lol. Hopefully that's better.
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08-12-2013, 09:24 PM | #21 | |
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Its really all subjective as I know many would say the same as you about os x, and I'd say Windows is for me. This of course omits 8- which they are scrambling to restore back to the ease of 7 and integrating 8 features. Am I the only one that felt like 8 was a band aid rush to introduce metro to help initiate people for their new mobile platform.
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08-13-2013, 08:37 AM | #22 |
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Well that all depends on your tablet. But it's a pretty safe bet that if your tablet runs the full version of Windows 8, then it would also run Windows 7 exactly the same way, but without the metro tiles BS. It's not the Win8 OS that makes the difference. There is touchscreen capability in all the Windows OSes, all the way back to WindowsXP.
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08-13-2013, 09:37 AM | #23 |
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08-13-2013, 04:05 PM | #24 |
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I have an RT and love it...but I only use it for email, intarwebs, and Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote). For these purposes, it absolutely excels.
As someone indicated earlier, the apps are sorely lacking on the W8 platform. iOS and Android are dominant in the mobile app space right now. It will change; I expect M$ to make significant strides in that area, but it will take time. Regarding W8 design flaws, those are well documented; the guy responsible (Steven Sinofsky, aka Lord Doucheknuckle) was canned/errrr "resigned", acknowledging his mistakes as the door hit him in the ass....errr, amicably parted company. The Metro interface is a problem for non-touch devices. For tablets, it is simple and intuitive. On a desktop/laptop w/o a touch screen, it is NOT AT ALL intuitive and a real PITA to figure out. The total lack of visual cues is inexplicable.
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08-13-2013, 07:05 PM | #25 | |
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Luckily the UI flaws that may seem major because of their level of annoyance are simple in terms of being easily corrected. But, whether they can be creative enough to introduce these new features in a manner that it actually means an evolution to the desktop environment is another question. Hell, 8.1 test build already slapped back on the taskbar and windows logo launcher - but thats more like a temporary stopgap because theyve yet to achieve mixing metro and the traditional desktop- it totally feels like they are competing homescreens.
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08-13-2013, 07:36 PM | #26 |
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I don't agree with this idea that having a Windows8 tablet allows for better apps just because it runs...windows. Why not just buy a cheap, nice netbook if that's what you need?
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08-17-2013, 09:24 AM | #27 |
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If you think that iOS isn't capable of "real work" or think it's crippled, read some of this review of Editorial. Built in Python interpreter with all kinds of scripting that can be applied to text.
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11-28-2013, 02:47 AM | #28 |
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199.99 in the Microsoft store right now for the Surface RT. Pretty good deal as long as you understand what you are getting.
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