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Microsoft Gives Early Look at Windows 10 Featuring Windows 7 Elements, Broad Adaptability
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Hope this hasn't been posted already, but here's a first look at how it might look when Windows 10 switches from mouse/windows to tablet mode:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_O-LrGL-YQ
Looks pretty good actually. If Windows 8 had done it like this rather than forcing the "modern" UI on everyone, it would have been received much better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_O-LrGL-YQ
Looks pretty good actually. If Windows 8 had done it like this rather than forcing the "modern" UI on everyone, it would have been received much better.
I haven't watched the video, but yes the 'adoption rate' (to steer clear of more penetration jokes) has been horrific. It's nothing to be proud of by any stretch, and perhaps Microsoft should lengthen their support for XP in view of the lousy job they did on 8.
8 was like a committee decision from a committee that couldn't agree on anything, and so they dumped it all into the hopper and that's what came out.
I ran into a kiosk while in NYC over the holidays and asked the 'attendant' what the trick was for Windows 8, and he zipped through it and it all looked great, but then I got back home and it all looked about the same: confusing.
Perhaps they should have included a hands on training session with each copy sold to help actually sell more of it.
I just couldn't get over the idea that I was 'upgrading' my top end PC hardware to act like a damn 'smart phone'. Um, no. Hell no...
The mouse to tablet conversion is fine for tablet devices.. There is zero justification for tiles on a mouse driven device..It simply cannot work under any circumstance ever!
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Looks that way. But truth be told. Matter of when not if, that they hit a HRun. Just a working theory but for years they had to make drivers for XP, Vista, Server, 8, and so on having departments working on numerous operating systems. Now they just have the one OS, and I think they have stopped support, at least a large percentage, on anything but 10 (and 8 but many didn't want to leave the familiar 7 but liked what 8 did and now have both. Home Run. Nahh. I don't think so unless they come out with a serious editing and daw app as well as consumer app, ala iLife.
On the other hand. Apple could have done a lot with (example), iWeb if they made it so you could easily, manipulate they underpinnings of the templates and had the ability to create and very easy to do, your own templates and a place to share with others so every site was unique. As making a complete web page in less than 10 seconds could only be done with iWeb. But the problem, was they all looked the same. The above would have solved this. Now I want to see the iMac 4.0 as it over locks to 4.4 on just air. That's a huge deal for audio as the GPU works with editing but not yet with audio.
That said. I really wish someone would snag band in a box and make it a pro app in that it's your personal arranger. i.e., you lay down a melody the program gives you unlimited arrangements which are then sent to EWQL, Symphobia, VSL, Trilogy and so on as I've heard a lot of pros do this but it can be time consuming. Apple could make it a breeze. No. I dint want someone with zero talent to make a commercial sounding piece which you can't anyway if you know you can't do a drum fill with cymbals while hitting the HH. It's just not possible but an Apple GUI and a year with BIAB and they could very well have the next best arranger, ever. Just as those in the know. Knew Giga Studio had the warmest sound but lacked security. I have a working Mac copy. Got it right before (1-2.weeks), Tascam put it on the chopping block. To slow at porting to Mac OSX. Had they ported around the same time garage band came to be (some of the same team from a Sonic Foundry ala know Sony), they might still be around. And had I taken the QA Director job for groove tubes. Aspen would still be selling amps, have software to boot and I would have talked him into keeping Groove Tubes and licensing them sweetly to Fender, Marshall, Mesa, and Boutique companies.
oh well. Only time will tell. Cheers.
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I think that the silly toolbar on top is pretty much the only bad thing in OSX. And Finder, obviously.
If my app is at the bottom right corner of my desktop, why am I forced to jump all the way across the screen to access the menu? That's just stupid. Fortunately there are usually keyboard shortcuts for most things, so it's not a deal breaker.
Hehe I remember back at W8 launch. Most sites reviewing the OS had to explain how the heck the user will be able to reach the login screen. There was this cover-screen in front that you could touch-slide away on a touch device. But on a PC...you had to drag with the mouse clicking on a specific handler-point. Hilarious. But, to be fair, I believe that 8.1 improved many little funny details like that.
Yep, too many Windows haters. I've been running both Mac and PC since the late 80's and both have their place. My main machines (laptop and desktop) are both Macs and I tend to mainly run Windows in a VM these days, but Windows 10 would convince me to move back to Windows on my laptop. Why? Believe it or not the hardware. It's far too easy to outgrow a MBP in terms of internal storage and RAM when running a lot of VMware. I can just about do with 16GB, but really need 32GB. I have 64GB on my desktop (nMP) and that's nice - I do use over 40GB most days however. And before anyone says 'just use a test server for the VM's', I wish, but mostly my work starts before the servers even exist. Hence the need to prototype on a laptop first. Having the ability to add a second SDD would help loads too. I also want a physical ethernet port as adaptors have a tendency to work loose and I often work in environments where there is no wireless.
The main things that I like about Windows 10 are multiple desktops and native Office apps that run quickly - this is the main reason I keep a Windows 7 VM as Office runs quicker in that than the native OS X apps do.
Overall I'm reaching the limits of Apple's high-end laptops, so I'm pleased Windows 10 is heading in the direction it is.
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That's the first thing I thought. Guys over 30 should not have hair like that, guys over 40 should really know better.
Amasing how people can project what they want on reality.
Something like 5 billion in profits last couple of months.
I Want Windows 9
Only odd numbered versions of Windows seem to work, and I do not want to be stuck on 7 for another couple of years!
Only odd numbered versions of Windows seem to work, and I do not want to be stuck on 7 for another couple of years!
I never joke about that. Penetration is some serious business.
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To everyone who is wondering about the naming of Windows 10, here is what Paul Thurrott had to say:
http://winsupersite.com/windows/microsoft-announces-windows-10
http://winsupersite.com/windows/microsoft-announces-windows-10
Run iOS 8 apps on Mac OS X?
Perhaps the #1 cool factor for Windows 10 is the ability to run their tablet/mobile (Surface) apps on the desktop/laptop as demonstrated at 1:30 in the video.
Perhaps the #1 cool factor for Windows 10 is the ability to run their tablet/mobile (Surface) apps on the desktop/laptop as demonstrated at 1:30 in the video.
X11 window managers had very configurable virtual desktops in the early 1990s. Neither company is breaking new ground here. They're actually very late to the party.
am I the only one who thought that adding the start tiles to the start menu makes it look very ugly and very busy? I like my computer to be very organized so I like all my stuff to be "simple" looking and not all just thrown together in a small space. Maybe I'll just have to try the tech preview out to see if I like it better. But in that video I hated it.
Plus I really don't like the idea of how the Windows Store apps have that "tile interface" but their are still desktop apps. I just feel it will look horrible with some programs using the desktop interface and Windows Store apps using a totally different interface. Pick an interface and stick with it Microsoft. I really don't want my mobile computing ways coming together with my desktop computing ways.
Plus I really don't like the idea of how the Windows Store apps have that "tile interface" but their are still desktop apps. I just feel it will look horrible with some programs using the desktop interface and Windows Store apps using a totally different interface. Pick an interface and stick with it Microsoft. I really don't want my mobile computing ways coming together with my desktop computing ways.
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Windows 7 was the best so far, but Windows does still seem to collect crap in the OS that makes it eventually go unstable. Not sure what it is, but you have to reinstall every year. I thought I would like Windows 8.1 but no, definitely not. I put it on my desktop and from the get go it started random crashing and the interface is still simply maddening. This version 10 looks better but I don't understand their fascination with TILES. I am not fascinated with them at all. The multiple desktops is cool.
Windows 7 was the best so far, but Windows does still seem to collect crap in the OS that makes it eventually go unstable. Not sure what it is, but you have to reinstall every year. I thought I would like Windows 8.1 but no, definitely not. I put it on my desktop and from the get go it started random crashing and the interface is still simply maddening. This version 10 looks better but I don't understand their fascination with TILES. I am not fascinated with them at all. The multiple desktops is cool.
Microsoft Naming Schemes Lack Imagination & Logic
In chronological order (sans logic):
Windows: 3, 95, 98, 2000 (ME), XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10
How is 7 really 7 when you look at the last non-dated version which was 3.1? Whatever happened to 9?
Xbox: Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Because naming the 3rd version should naturally be named as One, correct?
In chronological order (sans logic):
Windows: 3, 95, 98, 2000 (ME), XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10
How is 7 really 7 when you look at the last non-dated version which was 3.1? Whatever happened to 9?
Xbox: Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Because naming the 3rd version should naturally be named as One, correct?