The ultimate intent, as I understand it, is to allow the user to flow from his computer to his tablet and to his phone fairly smooth.
I like the intent, but I don’t like those Windows tiles.
I bought Windows 7 so I won’t have to deal with it for a good 4 years or so.
The author appears to be an old-school “give me DOS” type.
Easy, colored blocks for the masses to use is the wave of the future in our publicly educated society.
Windows 8 will allow you to get away from the Metro UI and use the OS in the same manner as Windows 7. This will remain until all programs are updated to use the Metro UI.
Right now, there are people running the Windows 8 Developer Preview on PCs and Tablets. On a PC it is irrelevant, but on a tablet, it finally brings Windows Tablets on the same playing field as iOS and Android.
My understanding is that the current Windows 8 includes a browser that is amazing. It is smooth and seamless on the tablets tested where Windows 7 stuttered.
If MS can pull all this off and integrate XBox, Windows Phone and PCs into the same user experience with a seamless transition from one to another, they may leap forward of their competition.
Only the free market will decide (unless Obama is re-elected)
Gnome is already taking it on the chin for Gnome-3.
I work for a Linux distributor, and I don’t know anybody who likes Gnome-3.
Besides, there are many window managers besides Gnome, KDE, and Unity. For the ultimate in simplicity, there is always Tom’s Window Manager, or, for real hard cases, there’s ...
# init 3
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Users do want this power users and admins do not. Same thing is happening to the game market. While I love XBOX, the kinnect experience is great, but they are now doing too much with kinnect at the expense of the core gamer. Fact is the masses love kinnect and they love simplicity in their computer. Plus it helps keep them from doing stupid stuff.
Yes, that is a sentence.