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<font face="Comic Sans MS">I get the feeling windows 8 will turn out
to be a bigger dud than vista or Bob. Anyone disagree?<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/31/2012 03:39 AM, Nathan England
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-qt-user-state:0;">That is hysterical! The first real computer I
owned was a Compaq Presario 486DX2, 66MHz with 4 MB of ram and
it came with Windows 3.1? and Bob. I thought it was a game or
something and I could never figure it out, so I deleted it. It
was later that day that I found the Yahoo! page for operating
systems and discovered linux. I was hoping to find the Mac OS
like I had at school to run on my pc. I had no idea they were
such totally different beasts... That was a long time ago!</p>
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-qt-user-state:0;">I have Windows 7 Enterprise 90 eval on a
partition of my workstation for testing and IE use when
necessary, and Netflix. My wife will occasionaly use my laptop
for checking her email in Firefox. I decided to see how
realistic these stupid usability videos are with a fairly
non-technical user who is not afraid to click around, so I
installed Window(s?) 8 on my system and didn't say a word.
Unfortunately, I was never able to surprise her with the system
change, as she came into my office to ask me what all the
grumbling and griping was about. I was laughing so hard, and
then grunting and moaning, then laughing, she thought I was
playing a game or something. So I had to explain what it was. </p>
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-qt-user-state:0;">It has been a week now that I have been using
Windows 8. I installed my development tools on it and decided I
would try it for a little while. I have two screens. Any of you
experience this wonderful system with two screens yet? You think
this new system is fubar when you only have one screen? Try two!
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-qt-user-state:0;">I really do like the Netflix "app" that I was
able to download from the app store. The interface rocks. As
long as you don't use it. Are you serious? This thing is
useless! Search for movies? you have to exit the app, use the
"charms" bar, type in your search, then select the Netflix app
to search in... Hello ! What usability expert approved this?</p>
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-qt-user-state:0;">Then it suffers from the typical windows "I
don't know how long this will take to transfer, so I'll make
something up" dialog box. When you use the netflix website and
you click somewhere in the video timeline it will jump to that
section and dispaly a bar or circle thing showing how much is
buffering. In the netflix app it is obvious it is depending on
windows for this info. It will start at 0 and quickly move to
100% then suddenly its at 50% and climbs to 100%, then it drops
to like 15% and s....l....o....w...l...y... moves to about 27%
and suddenly starts playing the video... That's IF it acutally
seeks correctly.</p>
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-qt-user-state:0;">Windows 8 really is not usable as a real
system. Cygwin is screwed and not even fun to use anymore. Putty
is the same old ugly putty, nothing can make it worse. </p>
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-qt-user-state:0;">Try setting a different browser as the
default and all the "apps" that are designed to use IE as the
browser will fail, or at least kick you to the desktop with no
obvious way back to your Modern UI. How many people know there
is a windows button on their keyboards? If you don't know that,
good luck click the 60 pixel wide button to get back to
Modern!!!</p>
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