Posted on 08/08/2014 10:17:45 AM PDT by Signalman
Windows 9 is going to strip out even more of Windows 8 than we thought: It will kill the Charms Bar. Considering that it will also add back the Start menu, and allow Metro apps to run as windows apps on the desktop, when it's done it may be an operating system you can love.
WinBeta reports that in Windows 9, currently code-named Threshold, the Charms Bar is going to be killed, as least on traditional PCs. That's good news. Although Charms works fine on tablets, on traditional PCs it's always been confusing and awkward to use. It's one more sign that Microsoft will be aiming Windows 9 more at desktops and laptops rather than at tablets.
Combine this with the ability to run Metro apps in their own windows on the desktop, have Metro apps include title bars and controls like traditional desktop apps, and boot directly into the desktop, and you have a version of Windows that looks and works more like Windows 7 than Windows 8.
The other news about Windows 9, according to Neowin, is that Windows 9 will have virtual desktops, which are available on Mac OS X and Ubuntu, as well as via some Windows third-party software. With virtual desktops, you create desktop different environments and can switch among them. So, for example, you might create one desktop for when you're working remotely with a work VPN, your company's enterprise apps, and so on; another for gaming; and others as well, and then switch instantly among them.
Virtual desktops aren't nearly as important as the other changes, which are all pointed at making Windows 9 an operating system designed for traditional PCs rather than tablets.
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Does anything Microsoft does mean anything anymore?
Clippy MUST DIE!..............................
Charms Bar MUST DIE!............................
Microsoft can’t risk the enterprise desktop in exchange for the mobile consumer market.
Hardly the word I would use.
Thought that this might interest you.
Still running 7 on all mine and have no plans to change unless forced to do so..
So, Windoze 9 will be Windoze 6?
I don’t believe them as they already stated they were doubling down on the Metro 2.0 interface, now called something else.
Metro interface being also known as “Idiocracy butthurt screen”.
I will be vastly surprised if they actually do something different.
Correct!!! Keep control of the Desktop at all costs. Dance with who brung ya...
I can just see a Win 8 development meeting and some flaming Washingtonian all excited about including ‘charms’ in the OS.
His desk is covered with My Little Ponies.
Anyway, I think MS is waking up to wear their bread is buttered and it’s not on Surface.
so they’re reviving XP and Windows 7.. great, 8 really sucks. If I wanted a tablet, I would have purchased a tablet..
Windows:
95: good
98: good
ME: crap
XP: good
Vista: crap
Win 7: good
Win 8: crap
Win 9: ?
I see a pattern developing here.
Not really. No one seems to care. I love my Mac. Switched several years ago. Windows just feels clunky.
LOL Nice catch!
I like the charms bar. In fact W8.1 is working great for mrs p6 and me.
Fast, stabile and once you get used to finding things it’s easier than scrolling through a tree structure.
Took about a week to get the hang of everything, then another couple of weeks to get good at it.
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