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| Admiralbill_gomec | Mar 6 2012, 04:31 PM Post #16 |
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I still believe touch screens are a fad. Not very accurate, smeary screens that look like my future son licked them, and the silly hand gestures. This may appeal to the wannabe anarchist teen hanging out at Starbucks but doesn't have a lot of real world applications. It is still FAR FASTER to type on a keyboard than to use a touchscreen for anything more than a text. Smart phones will either get larger (which makes them small tablets) or smaller again (which makes the screen unwieldy). Either way, you don't have the ten inch tablet any more. Back to Windows 8. I'll pass for now. I know the tiles layout is not the only look and feel, but rather is one option. Still, I'm happy with 7. |
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| Hoss | Mar 6 2012, 05:44 PM Post #17 |
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They have been through new code bases several times I believe. They still refer to it as NT, but I don't believe that they stayed on a 25 year-old x86 kernel. |
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| Hoss | Mar 9 2012, 02:17 PM Post #18 |
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I just installed the Windows 8 consumer preview on an older PC I have at work. The installation went well. Still playing with the tiles to get used to it all. It's easy to go to the traditional desktop if you like, but I was interested in the tile user experience. Gonna take some time in figuring it out, but so far it looks like it would be well suited for a tablet or phone (touch screen device) and not so much with a mouse and keyboard. There are a lot of built-in live tiles, but you can add your own if you like. The weather tile is neat. Internet Explorer is there. Haven't tried installing firefox, which is what I ordinarily use. Looks a bit similar to the XBOX interface, but not exactly. Anyway, seems very gesture oriented for bringing up menus or whatever you can make a gesture with your mouse on the sides or corners. Will take some getting used to, but seems cool. Edited by Hoss, Mar 9 2012, 02:21 PM.
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| Admiralbill_gomec | Mar 14 2012, 01:55 PM Post #19 |
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Interesting. Thanks, Hoss. |
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I was browsing the web a few days ago and came across an article regarding Windows. I will try and find the link at a later time. At any rate the article claims Windows had not changed since its debut in 1985. It had basically work on the NT kernel of 32 and 64 bit encryption. This had left Windows vulnerable to hackers and cyber attacks from criminals. Microsoft claims Windows 8 will be completely different from the previous versions of Windows. They said it will have built in security features that will make the new Windows a failsafe OS. Frankly I have yet to see such an OS come true. The closest one I had come across is OSX before Apple switch from Motorola to Intel processors. Now if the world's most advanced OS still have a chance of being vulnerable to virus attacks what makes MS claim Windows 8 is any different? 
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