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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What a beautiful screen shot. Sigh.
I am so sick of change for change’s sake. Don’t mind the PITA learning curve as much as perfectly workable programs are made obsolete.
So,for radio programming for our non-profit, I’ve gotta carry around a pure-DOS computer -AND- and another for 98XP. Grrrrrrr.
Windows operating systems are like a grocery store chain.
Just when you have finally gotten used to where everything in the store is located, they remodel and move everything to a new place.........................
I run W7 also and I like it.
How much trouble do you think will it be to change to W9 when we are forced to do so?
Operating system wars...The definition of futility.
Specifically bought 7 just recently to avoid 8
What the heck is a “Metro app”? Something to do with metrosexuals?
Woot!
Posting from Linux Mint 17.
It is way way way too early to be giving an opinion on Windows 9
“Does anything Microsoft does mean anything anymore?”
No.
Just like people whose knowledge of technology is apps and downloading MP3s have been saying since 1993.
MS has outlasted every fad tech company for years, and every pronouncement that they are “over”. That is why they are a Blue-Chip stock and not a toy for people to brag about how much they paid for one share.
Just seeing all the rich liberal trustifarians staring at their glowing macbooks at all the coffeeshops in my college town gives me the creeps. These people love walled gardens and dream of running the once their government is planning for us all. Feels dirty to use a Mac. Gimmee winxp pro or old school Linux.
DOS??
I do, I do, see a a pattern there.
Limbaugh uses a Mac.
“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.”
And here on the Linux side:
2005: “Linux not ready for the desktop”
2006: “Linux not ready for the desktop”
2007: “Linux not ready for the desktop”
2008: “Linux not ready for the desktop”
2009: “Linux not ready for the desktop”
2010: “Linux not ready for the desktop”
2011: “Linux not ready for the desktop”
2012: “Linux not ready for the desktop”
2013: “Linux not ready for the desktop”
2014: “Linux not ready for the desktop”
I see a pattern developing here.
I’ve been using Linux since 2005. It is definitely “ready.” Has been for years.
A lot of Windows 8 grief can be avoided by trying Linux.
/s
Same as any switch. Constant updates, lose of some programs you’ve used for 10 years because the program maker and MS didn’t talk to each other, crashes, old programs that you paid for now requiring you you to pay for an upgrade. bloatware, new programs that you don’t need.
Yup, that’s about the worst of it.
If I listened to all the MS h8ters and Apple fanboys I’d still be using 3.1 or even Tandy Deskmate as the GUI.
Actually I DID like Deskmate. It made it easy - for the time - to group programs and files so they were fairly easy to find.
Technology is now advancing exponentially. It will keep getting faster and faster. You remember were you were 15 years ago 1999? I sure do and we have advanced a lot technology wise since then.
So what is the next 15 years. Look out for biotech, quantum computing, automation, and the nanobots that will give you access to the internet Cloud via the nanobots.
For instance, the nanobots will upload your health info in the Cloud, and then advise you as you jog, travel, etc... So when you think you will be able to access the web as long you use the Nanobots.
Windows 8 lost money because the business world didn’t accept it, they make little in comparison from the consumer end.
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