Goombert
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Posted on: October 01, 2014, 08:12:17 am |
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Location: Cappuccino, CA Joined: Jan 2013
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http://venturebeat.com/2014/09/30/windows-10-is-microsofts-big-fat-apology-for-windows-8/I guess somebody at Microsoft can't count... I'll concede, I am actually very excited for Windows 10, the quicker we kill Vista along with XP the better. Additionally I like the task switcher button, that is a really awesome new feature that should have been in Windows 8 honestly. It technically is you just don't see it without ALT+TAB. Plus a workspace switcher like Ubuntu, that was one of my favorite Ubuntu features. Also there's finally going to be CTRL+C and other clipboard shortcuts and stuff for Command Prompt. I can't wait I really might sign up for the developer preview just to get my hands on it.
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I think it was Leonardo da Vinci who once said something along the lines of "If you build the robots, they will make games." or something to that effect.
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Darkstar2
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Reply #1 Posted on: October 01, 2014, 11:02:55 am |
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If you read the entire article it is mentioned they will skip version 9 and call it 10. Mind you they could have simply listened to their customers during the first months and made those changes to 8.1 and service packs. But I can understand why they will call it 10 and not 9.......lol. Every M$ OS is bloat ware, I have always used tools to trim the fat, even windows 7 with tools like RT7lite, Windows 7 Manager and many others - I hope eventually it will be possible to remove and trim fat. That OS will probably come out of the box with tons of running services and tasks most people won't use......I wonder how that OS will perform for gaming compared to Windows 7. And last I heard Windows 8 users will get free upgrades to 10. (those who actually paid for 8 that is !) lol.
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Goombert
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Reply #3 Posted on: October 01, 2014, 03:28:58 pm |
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Location: Cappuccino, CA Joined: Jan 2013
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Actually, one thing that was true and was great about 8 is they already begun trimming some of the fat and boot times are a lot quicker. They did improve the performance quite a bit and they also fixed that issue where you have to refresh when moving a desktop icon. I am quite satisfied with where the Windows OS is going. The only thing I need left as a developer is a comprehensive package manager and I would probably never switch off this OS.
Also, Windows is not that big really, it only occupies 18.6 GB (19,976,860,691 bytes) of my diskspace which is actually quite small, about the size of two GTA IV installations.
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I think it was Leonardo da Vinci who once said something along the lines of "If you build the robots, they will make games." or something to that effect.
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Goombert
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Reply #5 Posted on: October 01, 2014, 03:40:00 pm |
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Location: Cappuccino, CA Joined: Jan 2013
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Haha, that's funny DaSpirit, I honestly think they should have gone with "Windows One" Does anybody else think the titlebar icons are starting to look a lot like Gnome?
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I think it was Leonardo da Vinci who once said something along the lines of "If you build the robots, they will make games." or something to that effect.
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Reply #6 Posted on: October 01, 2014, 03:43:22 pm |
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MS version names have always been fucking stupid.
If windows 8 users really are getting the free upgrade, I'm getting windows 8 asap.
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DaSpirit
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Reply #7 Posted on: October 01, 2014, 03:58:37 pm |
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Location: New York City Joined: Mar 2013
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Haha, that's funny DaSpirit, I honestly think they should have gone with "Windows One"
Does anybody else think the titlebar icons are starting to look a lot like Gnome?
Yes, unfortunately it is starting to look Gnome-esque. Hopefully this kind of title-bar is limited to Metro apps only. I personally like flat themes, but Windows is starting to look too flat. I think the new start menu looks horrendous.
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lonewolff
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Reply #9 Posted on: October 01, 2014, 05:51:04 pm |
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A person in an IRC channel shared this as a possible reason for skipping 9:
Actually, that makes a lot of sense. (And not a lot of sense at the same time) If people are worried that programs intended for Windows 95 & 98 won't work properly on Windows 9, then all I can say is LOL.
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Goombert
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Reply #10 Posted on: October 01, 2014, 06:05:15 pm |
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Location: Cappuccino, CA Joined: Jan 2013
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DaSpirit, you are right, look at the taskbar it's a solid color, Windows is definitely too flat.
Rusky, I agree about the roundness definitely, they do overdo it.
Personally I would like a mix of flat with some slight gradients mixed in with Windows 7 glass look. The glass look will always be my personal favorite, arguments that it's slow to render are simply ludicrous since Vista it was hardware accelerated. The only thing I really dislike are ellipse's and round edges, I do in fact like squares because they fit perfectly together, I also hate round radars in video games. So Windows 8 developers keep the square windows, add some minor gradients to things and reactivate glass!
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I think it was Leonardo da Vinci who once said something along the lines of "If you build the robots, they will make games." or something to that effect.
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lonewolff
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Reply #11 Posted on: October 01, 2014, 07:40:55 pm |
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Still could be in trouble here though. Win 95 - CrapWin 98 - Good Win ME - CrapWin XP - Good Win Vista - CrapWin 7 - Good Win 8 - CrapWin 9 - Good (but not released) Win 10 - CrapSee a pattern? If they skip release of 9, then we are in for another crap OS in a row
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