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Oh. But anyway I can at least run OMK, Half Life 2 and Sonic Adventure 2 on my Win 8 lappy pretty well but I see why people aren't fond of it.
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And 8.1 hid the option to "create an entirely local Windows account" behind the "create a new Windows Live ID" one. And every single file association that has a both a Desktop program and a Metro one defaults to the latter.
edited 18th Oct '13 1:40:54 PM by Medinoc
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."I'll put my two cents in on the tablet thing. I have one. It's a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. I mostly use it as an e-reader and to occasionally take notes in class because it's easier than lugging my laptop across the city. But for pretty much anything else, even surfing the Internet? My laptop is vastly better.
It's even really annoying to work on my book on it.
It's good for quick notes, keeping a document ready for when you need to access it and to read books with. Not much else. Why not? It's awkward and clunky. The touchscreen interface is fun for about 5 minutes and then it's just annoying.
I've even tried the tablet version of Windows 8. Bafflingly, it feels like it's supposed to use a mouse because it isn't very accurate with touch detection.
The Xbox music thing confused the hell out of me. I don't have an Xbox, I've never wanted an Xbox, and as far as I know Xboxes are for playing video games on. Why do I get sent to a confusing 'Xbox program' when I want to play music? What's wrong with Windows Media Player?
I'm also mildly annoyed by the way the super-pretty slick start screen with the coloured squares and icons will only look that nice if you use their approved programs... once I swapped them out for the programs I actually wanted to use it doesn't look as appealing, and I can't make the tiles bigger or smaller.
Be not afraid...Microsoft: destroying that which made PCs PCs in the first place. <_< What happened to "install and use what you want, how you want it onto your own rig when you want to: on your own head be it, but at least the OS will vaguely cope unless a program is screwy and jumps up and down on the drivers"? -_-
edited 18th Oct '13 11:20:04 PM by Euodiachloris
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Because the have in image of "it just works". The cute-sy playskool(TM) icons appealed to the "I don't know about computers/computers scare me" crowd. Tablets and phones aren't though of as computers.
House Redmond made a huge misstep with the Were Still Relevant Dammit Metro design of Windows 8. Most Windows users aren't hipsters, seniors, children or people scared by computers. We know what we want and don't like it hidden.
Plus the walled garden only made sense with tablets and phones. A computer is large enough and fast enough to download real programs. That was mistake #3.
The biggest mistake was the marketing. Xbox One showed that Microsoft saw customers as a "resource" like hat-makers saw the Passenger Pigeon. Windows 8 is at the core of the Xbox One, the handwriting was on the wall.
All Apple and Google has to do was stand there while Microsoft shived itself in the stomach.
edited 22nd Oct '13 9:01:08 AM by TairaMai
I tried to walk like an Egyptian and now I need to see a Cairo practor....
well, as the earlier cracked article referenced said, the problem is win 8 is designed for people who use computers a certain way and who dont comprehend that not everyone uses computers for those purposes.
this is also why the original leak of the xbox design in stupid tweets was such a failure. the designer who made those infamous comments lived in a city, where free wifi and internet everywhere is normal. He had no frame of reference to understand that isnt always how it is.
edited 22nd Oct '13 1:20:19 PM by midgetsnowman
Still, by this argument it sounds like Windows 8 designers didn't even own a desktop PC anymore. People with desktops, especially with 16:9 HD monitors like Microsoft employees can afford, would have immediately vetoed the "one app on the screen" shtick.
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."Then apparently everyone at Microsoft uses laptops only.
Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.
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Apple Just Ended the Era of Paid Operating Systems
Amid a slew of incremental improvements to its iPad tablets and Mac Book laptops, Apple today announced some landmark news about its oldest surviving operating system: It will not charge for the latest big upgrade, Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks, breaking from a tradition that goes back 16 years and shining a light on a long-unfolding reversal in how tech profits are made.
This is big. This could make Macs affordable to government and industry (buyers in bulk). This is like when Sony allowed used games and was $100(US) under the Xbox One.
I tried to walk like an Egyptian and now I need to see a Cairo practor....
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The big thing is that the licensing costs are a drag on computer use. Linux took off because of its robustness and it's cheap for colleges and many government applications.
With a Mac, the initial high cost coupled with paying >$100.00 US for an upgrade was a big deal breaker for those computer shopping. It's a deal killer if you're a business or local government agency looking for office computers.
This kicks Microsoft in the userbase because they are charging for Windows and to upgrade to Windows 8.1 from Vista.
Windows and the Mac OS were "free" only when you bought a computer. Both used to charge for the new OS. Now the Mac has a genuine price advantage over a windows machine.
I tried to walk like an Egyptian and now I need to see a Cairo practor....

Really the only advantages I've heard of tablet-style computing is from writers and artists whose work involves a single screen that you have to be entirely dedicated to for long periods of time without being distracted. A lot of applications with writers in mind have a full-screen mode but I've never really heard of anybody actually using them.
But a full-screen music application? That's really stupid. Out of all things, music I'd think would be the most likely one to be running in the background.