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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They need to put Windows Media Center back in. Otherwise, Win7 will remain as the go-to OS for HTPCs.
MS is arrogance personified. They keep putting out operating systems, apparently only beta testing in an echo chamber. People hated Windows Me, Vista, and now 8. They’ll only be smart until the next O/S is released. Then they’ll go dumb again.
While I kinda figured, like with every MS story posted on FR, that the usual insecure Linux guys, Apple fanboys, and people that think that Windows should look like it did back in 1997 because somehow there is a constitutional right to have things in technology never change, I’ve been more than happy to be using Windows 8. Never had an issue with it, never had trouble finding anything, and was more than happy to be using Apps as opposed to crappy freeware and shareware or clunky desktop programs.
Quite frankly, it is nice to have a computer that doesn’t look like the boring Win7 computer at work.
I doubt that any changes they make will satisfy the professional complainers. If most of them even used Windows, they will just find something else to whine about, because once you reward whiners, they will just keep on.
When Windows is on 90+ percent of laptops and desktops, yes, it does still matter.
When Macs still have about 5% of the PC OS market, and Linux is still around 1+ percent, YES, Microsoft still matters a lot.
The world still has abut 1 1/2 of PCs running with several versions of Windows in them, so, YES!, Microsoft still matters a lot. In fact, MS is still the leading OS and software company in the world.
At least they’re learning from their mistakes.
You must be one of that 1 percent.
;)
Windows 8 made me want to get violent...
I bought a new laptop for a project I was working on, it was so different that I lost about a month worth of productivity and money and the contract I was trying to get.
Until I found a Start8 program that simulated the desktop
“Windows 8 lost money”
It didn’t.
They have been predicting the demise of the desktop for years and it has burned them.
Just like their prediction that we will all move to cloud storage and computing. A bad idea for most of us to begin with, and now with the NSA and DHS revealed to be what they are, a bad idea for everyone IMO.
May as well have the NSA be the cloud host and skip the middleman.
Until Window 10, where they will make the same mistakes
I like 7...
8 is trying to make my desktop act/look like a touchscreen tablet.
They drive some of the most horrible changes just because they can. I had been using MS Office for nearly 15 years and then, all of a sudden, BLAMMO. A completely redesigned interface with a stupid “ribbon bar.”
WHY?
Windows 8... The least intuitive OS since DOS.
I’ve said it before.
Apple is the only company that makes conservatives sound like flipping libs. Even after all of the money they give left-wing causes, they will not dare speak ill of them.
You think Microsoft is conservative????
The Linux Mint 17 distro is the first one that I could get to run on the computer without a halt or a crash. I may actually install it. It does seem faster and simpler than Win 8.1.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
I’ve used Windows 8 since it was released, and have had no problems whatsoever. In fact, it’s a lot better than Windows 7, and runs faster. When it comes to the complaints about the metro interface, those complainers aren’t smart enough to know that, Windows 8 can also work with the desktop interface, just like Windows 7.
Yep. I’m in the process of migrating the family over to Mint.
It’s been pretty seamless, and folks are loving that it just works.
/johnny
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