Author: Malcolm Greene
Posted: 2011-09-13 17:50:32 Link
Microsoft unveils a radically redesigned Windows 8
http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/13/technology/microsoft_build_windows_8/index.htm
Any of you have hands-on experience with preview/beta version of this
product?
Malcolm
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Author: Ed Leafe
Posted: 2011-09-13 17:51:15 Link
On Sep 13, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Malcolm Greene wrote:
> Microsoft unveils a radically redesigned Windows 8
But I thought Windows 7 was the answer to all our problems! :)
-- Ed Leafe
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Author: Ted Roche
Posted: 2011-09-13 18:01:05 Link
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Ed Leafe <ed@leafe.com> wrote:
> But I thought Windows 7 was the answer to all our problems! :)
Windows 7 was the 2009 version of the answer to all our problems. (Our
problems were codenamed 'Vista')
Now, it's new and improved! Brighter brights! Whiter whites! With tailfins!
Years ago, I watched one of these dog-and-pony release-day shows where
Bill Gates admitted quite frankly that, yes, he was telling you that
you should replace all your Windows Version X-1 installations with
Windows X, and that you could count on him appearing again in two or
three years to tell you that now you needed to replace them all with
Version X+1. It was a startlingly-honest admission.
The view from the gerbil wheel doesn't change all that much, does it?
We could say similarly snide things about OS X "Tiger" I suspect. Or
Ubuntu 'Unity' or GNOME 3....
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Author: john harvey
Posted: 2011-09-13 18:11:47 Link
That's the difference!
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On Sep 13, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Malcolm Greene wrote:
> Microsoft unveils a radically redesigned Windows 8
But I thought Windows 7 was the answer to all our problems! :)
-- Ed Leafe
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Author: Ed Leafe
Posted: 2011-09-13 18:15:33 Link
On Sep 13, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
> We could say similarly snide things about OS X "Tiger" I suspect. Or
> Ubuntu 'Unity' or GNOME 3....
One thing that I found markedly different is that OS X releases form a more or less natural progression: each adds some things that were difficult/impossible in the previous version. There are tweaks here and there, and a couple of ancient things are removed or overhauled, but you never get the feeling that Version X-1 was crap, or is useless now.
I still remember Microsoft ads which targeted the BSOD as the "competition" from whom they were trying to convince you to run.
-- Ed Leafe
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Author: Jarvis, Matthew
Posted: 2011-09-13 18:21:38 Link
> Microsoft unveils a radically redesigned Windows 8
>
http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/13/technology/microsoft_build_windows_8/ind
ex
> .htm
>
> Any of you have hands-on experience with preview/beta version of this
> product?
>
> Malcolm
I'm not sure what the heck it was I saw recently, but our network guy
was shoing me "something-8" - I had the impression it was Server 8 or
whatever...
Anyways, he was jazzed about the indexing capability it had that made
file Finds/Searches pretty darn fast....
Other than that, my impression was more glitz and color, but I didn't
play with it personally...
Thanks,
Matthew Jarvis || Business Systems Analyst
IT Department
McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center
1460 G Street, Springfield, OR 97477 || Ph: 541-744-6092 || Fax:
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Author: Paul McNett
Posted: 2011-09-13 18:27:18 Link
On 9/13/11 2:51 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:
> On Sep 13, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Malcolm Greene wrote:
>
>> Microsoft unveils a radically redesigned Windows 8
>
> But I thought Windows 7 was the answer to all our problems! :)
It was.
Paul
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Author: Ed Leafe
Posted: 2011-09-13 18:29:28 Link
On Sep 13, 2011, at 5:27 PM, Paul McNett wrote:
>> But I thought Windows 7 was the answer to all our problems! :)
>
> It was.
Reminds me of the wisdom of Homer J Simpson: "Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems".
-- Ed Leafe
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Author: Paul McNett
Posted: 2011-09-13 18:31:37 Link
On 9/13/11 3:15 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:
> but you never get the feeling that Version X-1 was crap, or is useless now.
For the most part, this is true. However, I have a Tiger machine from 2001 that
otherwise runs great, except current iPhones can't sync with the iTunes on that
computer, and I can't install the current iTunes because they don't make 'em for
PowerPC anymore.
I realize at some point they needed to make the cut (that machine is 10 years old
after all), but it is certainly less useful since I can't sync my current Apple
devices with it.
Paul
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Author: MB Software Solutions, LLC
Posted: 2011-09-13 18:42:04 Link
On 9/13/2011 5:50 PM, Malcolm Greene wrote:
> Microsoft unveils a radically redesigned Windows 8
> http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/13/technology/microsoft_build_windows_8/index.htm
>
> Any of you have hands-on experience with preview/beta version of this
> product?
No, but I saw they're forcing the ribbon usage...no alternative.
(unless I read that wrong)
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