... he was never a Mac-head, just a Windows user totally grossed out by Windows 8. A lot of us know -that- feeling... :-)
Posted on 08/20/2015 1:25:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The bare-bones Windows 10 ‘privacy tweaks’ video on Youtube is eleven minutes long, and has about a dozen steps scattered in multiple UI locations...Just sayin’
Having never used Win 8 or 8.1 I cannot say whether Win 10 can be set up to look/act like Windows 8.1.
The task bar is still there, and tiles are still there.
I am still picking up the nuances.
Best feature for me is better performance with SSD and fast startup times.
Can you turn the drop down Start Menu OFF and recover the screen real estate?
Yeah, Swordmaker, I agree the guy never "got" the way OS X does things. Like me learning French in high school, I thought in English, mentally translated to French, spoke the French, listened to the reply in French, mentally translated to English, and then figured out what the reply was. I never got to being a "French thinker".
In that sense, this guy was a "Mac user" in the strict sense of "he had a Mac" but he used it like a Windows user.
I wouldn't label the article "FUD", just mis-titled and mis-directed. I don't think there was a serious agenda to mislead.
I'll ping my list in a few minutes... thanks for the heads-up.
Fifteen years ago that was what we had for all intents and purposes.
... he was never a Mac-head, just a Windows user totally grossed out by Windows 8. A lot of us know -that- feeling... :-)
Win+R brings up the Run Dialog... Type 'Control' (sans quotes) => Enter ... normal Control Panel will appear...
One of the things I regret with Win-10 is the Clock Gadget. I use it (with Win-7) when I’m recording live audio all the time - I have it set so that is about 60% opacity so it just “floats” above the recording software that is set to full-screen.
Microsquish decided for us that, since some gadgets posed a potential security risk, they had to get rid of them altogether.
I’ve not gone into W10 all that much. Most of my flight stuff is on an iPad sort of thing. I have another computer at home that runs Vista just fine and the folks are running W7 on theirs. With the notebook it’s just something to play with right now.
Keep Windows 7 and get Stardock program to change the theme to your liking. http://www.stardock.com
There are no true Scotsman.
I mean a person that uses a Mac and switches to Windows? No way on earth that can happen! He was obviously never really one because no one that uses an apple OS could possibly ever want to use anything else, so says the RDF.
Has to be FUD. Totally has to be FUD.
Now of it was the other way around. It would not be questioned.
My judgement is based on what he described as how he used his Mac in his interim between being a disgruntled Windows 8 user, buying the Mac and installing Parallels so he could run Windows apps on it, and then going back to being a Windows 10 user.
Everything he said showed he never became assimilated into a Mac user. . . he just wanted to use a Mac to run Windows apps.
The timing of the publishing of the article in the three week run-up to Apple's product announcement on September 9, in FUD Season, makes it just more of the usual and customary FUD of the Season.
Nice try. . . VanDeKiok. What news value does an article about a Faux Mac using Windows software user returning to being a Windows software user have beyond FUD? Especially when he used his article to make such toss-off claims as:
"Instead of getting the best of both worlds, though, I got the worst: pathetically slow applications, poor battery life, and inconsistent user interfaces."
These are FUD statements when we know them to be NOT TRUE! They fly in the face of every single review ever made of the MacBook Pro running Windows applications both natively and in a virtual Machine. That makes it deliberately placed FUD.
The rest of the article about the majority of CIOs switching all the computers and tablets at their Enterprise level businesses to Windows 10 is of the same level of false narrative. NO CIOs are going to be doing that anytime soon. Most CIOs are going to take a wait and see approach to Windows 10 before taking the jump. Windows 10 is NOT ready for Enterprise level work at this time. . . nor is it free for them. Just the training costs for employees for the changes is astronomical enough to make them hold off. His claim that Enterprise CIOs are worried about a lack of USB 3.0 ports on tablets is bunk. . . because Enterprise CIOs look for ways to DISABLE such ports for security reasons. Everything I saw in this report screamed that it was a paid Microsoft placed FUD piece.
I got stuck with Windows 8.1 when I bought a new pc for the business. (if my software had been mac compatible I would never have bought a new pc)
I just updated to Windows 10 and the difference is amazing. Runs faster, Safari actually works now, better overall.
To sum up:
“I dont like what he said, so I dont think he’s a real Mac user and this was a plot to “hurt” Apple because they are releasing new products, and some Yahoo story was all that it would take to bring them down.”
I mean seriously, Sword???? If he said that Win10 sucks and that he’s buying 20 Macs as a result, somehow I doubt you will be shouting “FUD”.
“These are FUD statements when we know them to be NOT TRUE! “
No....You just assume that your opinion of these products are the universal experience that all people SHOULD have, and that anyone that says otherwise must be lying.
“The rest of the article about the majority of CIOs switching all the computers and tablets at their Enterprise level businesses to Windows 10 is of the same level of false narrative. NO CIOs are going to be doing that anytime soon. Most CIOs are going to take a wait and see approach to Windows 10 before taking the jump.”
And you know this how again? I mean beyond that’s what you hope.
“His claim that Enterprise CIOs are worried about a lack of USB 3.0 ports on tablets is bunk. . . because Enterprise CIOs look for ways to DISABLE such ports for security reasons.”
Like they disable the USB 1 and 2 ports because I’ve never used a computer at work where the USB ports didnt work, because it’s damn hard to use a USB keyboard or mouse when they dont.
“Everything I saw in this report screamed that it was a paid Microsoft placed FUD piece.”
And the iTinfoil hat award goes to...
I stand by what I wrote.
They'll disable USB attached storage, but disabling the ports simply isn't practical.
Sadly my old friend of many years running Vista died. I might look into rebuilding him as a Linux box. I'm not a hardware guy but I thing a new CPU and a "new" hard drive could bring him back to life. He was a Dell C521.
I've seen the ports filled with epoxy. . . physically disabling attaching anything.
How long ago has that been? Everybody switched to USB for KB and Mouse years ago.
On a laptop?
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