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Problem is that the whole substructure for aero (and with it the entire old desktop) is planned to be taken out. So one day you'll find yourself with ModernUI and no old-style desktop. That's the way MS envisions it. First let people adapt to new version by keeping old in, then phasing out old and leaving only new. Which is perfectly logical. It makes no sense to keep two completely different UI's in one OS. In comes Windows Blue. Since Ms made it known

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The OP is about how this mess of an OS ever got released, i have an opinion which happens to be a majority opinion. So your socalled objective response isn't objective, how could it be when most of the world doesn't want it? There is no you hate it or love it. There is is most people don't like it and a minority likes it. That is objective, since its supported by countless newsposts all over the internet. The only one who loves it paul thurrot. In the r

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Well, then we can shut down the forum and just go about our business. No need for a comment section, let's just put a plus and min kudo counter. Saves on moderation, bandwidth, storage. [e digicons]>:([/e]

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I don't like objective people, they don't have an opinion.

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[quote who="Savyg" reply="296" id="3300647"] Quoting petrossa, reply 287I must admit to having watched it without sound. Couldn't find my headphones and my wife hates english. So he talks. Must listen to it when i find where i put my headphones. But tnx, Starkers, for your insightful rebuttal of his very good points. Doesn't really stack up, but still a nice try. for effort. I only watched seven minutes of it and he was already so full of s

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I must admit to having watched it without sound. Couldn't find my headphones and my wife hates english. [e digicons]|-)[/e] So he talks. Must listen to it when i find where i put my headphones. But tnx, Starkers, for your insightful rebuttal of his very good points. Doesn't really stack up, but still a nice try. [e digicons]k2[/e] for effort.

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This 23 minutes of your time. May look like a comic, but the points put forward are very strong and sensible. And it finishes by the posts original question. [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTYet-qf1jo[/video]

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[quote who="starkers" reply="40" id="3300059"] Quoting petrossa, reply 39Eating painkillers like candy. That's not a good thing... pop too many and you become so immune to them that they do little or nothing to relieve your pain... and when little or nothing works, that's when you really know what pain is all about. Believe me, I was there and it was not at all pleasant. It took a year or more of near abstinence from painkillers before I could feel their effect a

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[quote who="starkers" reply="35" id="1510223"]Yo, Po`....a very well written story...spinal issues are something I can very much relate to.... Five years ago it was only three, now I have six vertebrae in my neck with absolutely no discs between them....it's just bone on bone and painful as all hell 24-7 for 365 annually. I have a permanent and debilitating headache that I go the sleep and wake up with....if and when I sleep, and doctors tell me there is NO surgical procedure t

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[quote who="moshi" reply="277" id="3295131"] All in all, sure they work at everything somewhat, but at nothing as good as the standard laptop. Except for entertainment. For that they are exceptionally good. so you use those xooms ... but why don't you use a laptop for these tasks? exactly ... because a laptop has the wrong form factor, does not

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[quote who="moshi" reply="274" id="3295078"]just found this Motorola ad: http://adoholik.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/motorola_et1_enterprise_tablet_warehouse.jpg but of course you know better than them and after a little more research i found out that SAP, the market leader for enterprise software, already has released 15 apps for the iPad. so it is pretty pointless in trying to tell you how useful tablets will be when reality is already

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[quote who="moshi" reply="259" id="3294806"]hm ... I thought the more different movements you do, the less repetitive the whole thing would be ? anyways, as the visionary you claim to be, aren't you happy those mobile devices have input methods that do not use a gui (as Siri or the Google Voice Search)? or even Google Now which tries to read your mind? but then this speech recognition might cause a sore throat and the mind reading a headache.[/quote]

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[quote who="moshi" reply="256" id="3294605"] Quoting petrossa, reply 255Using gadgets such as tablets are fun to use for fun. But to use them in practice you need minimally a keyboard, making it a cumbersome system. In fact you replace a perfectly good working platform such as a notebook for a less capable gadget. oh my. actually the form factor and not having a keyboard makes tablets useful for certain tasks (remember all that maintenance staff that had slates?). just because

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[quote who="the_Monk" reply="254" id="3294206"] Bottom line for me? While teenagers certainly spurred this tech on, they are obviously no longer the (only) target market for newer and newer tech. Everyone's life is at least somewhat "connected" these days (personal and/or business) and can be made better/easier through newer mobile computing tech. However, mobile computing expects to change the way you compute. Does this sometim

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[quote who="the_Monk" reply="236" id="3292543"] Quoting petrossa, reply 236Not so hard to grasp now is it? It's where the "connected-world" wants to go. They (Apple, MS, etc. ) are just giving the world at large what it wants. If they didn't, they would no longer be in business. Simple really. As long as companies everyone loves to hate are in business they must be doing something right. Now that sh

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[quote who="Jafo" reply="237" id="3292766"]petrossa... You are STILL using some annoying/useless browser/text editor which includes 1/2 page of BLANK with your posts... to the point they need to be edited/cut. Can you please simply use the text reply window within the forum.[/quote] Just using the reply thingie.

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[quote who="Roloccolor" reply="234" id="3292469"]RUMORS - its all just based on rumors until MS officially announces something, nothing that all those expert rumor pages claims about this step is true or based on real token evidence whatever. An example the link you have just posted i got one here aswell that tells another version MSkynet about to launch with BLue just kidding I could continue to post these, all claim something different it all depends if

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[quote who="starkers" reply="225" id="3292252"] Anyway, I don't see it being the way for all software, because too many major players, Abobe, Corel, Nero, Acronis, just to name a few, will want control/autonomy over their own products. There are to many major corporations for MS to fight on this one, so no, I think smaller apps may come down to being available only in the App Store, perhaps, but that major software will remain as is... purchased from the developer and installed by th

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[quote who="Roloccolor" reply="216" id="3291920"]petrossa you should go and get that patented "Blackbox" sounds kinda cool ! - i wonder if it´s the new app we get in the "Blue" update In fact you just inspired me to continue with this. [/quote] [e digicons]5*[/e] Nice. No the blackbox you have to pay for and isn't an app. It is a limitation in future generations of Windows on how you can install software. MSstore will be the only

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[quote who="moshi" reply="50" id="3290735"] Quoting starkers, reply 48, it's a Nokia W8 phone that utilises the Windows 8 operating system. no. Windows Phone 8 ≠ Windows 8 those are two different operating systems. but MSs marketing department must be doing something right if you fell for it.[/quote] Their marketing skills outperform their productmaking skills by a factor of 1000. Only a very skilled marketeer

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[quote who="moshi" reply="214" id="3291603"] nothing you just posted has anything to do with the price of future MS operating systems. the look of Windows 8 is personal taste. it is very neutral, so i can't say wether it looks good or bad. i like it better than this for sure though. like you i do not think that Windows Phone or the Surface will be a success story. i wonder why you think that they never had to compete? they are in the Phone business since m

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[quote who="moshi" reply="182" id="3289086"] Quoting petrossa, reply 181 Sure, MS is going to take a nosedive in their profits because they are such a bunch of nice guys. From 30.000% profit to the normal 10% just because they've seen the light. Believe what you want, you'll pay for it anyway. you don't get it. selling 1000 copies for $10 means more profit than selling 400 copie

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Well, as long as you can disable it on your mobo it can do no harm. But if you want to for example double boot linux and windows you are in trouble. Best stay away from it, it gives MS way too much control over YOUR computer. [e digicons]:cylon:[/e]

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[quote who="moshi" reply="173" id="3287012"] Quoting petrossa, reply 171Good luck with paying through your nose: Windows Blue looks likely to replace Windows 8 as early as next year, according to Microsoft insiders. According to unnamed sources speaking to a Chinese news site, first spotted and translated into English by ZDNet, Microsoft is planning a major update to its operating system towards the second half of 2013 - and it is likely to keep doing so every year

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Must have cost a bundle to get it into #1 spot. An old OS with a phone UI slapped on it. There you sit with your mega computer, running an UI meant for a low power,low memory device. Kudo's for the marketeers though, that is some seriously good marketing selling a seriously downsized product as an 'innovation'. [e digicons]:rofl:[/e]