Comments on: Windows 8 on desktop: Feature expected on Windows 8 PCs http://nvonews.com/2012/04/29/windows-8-on-desktop-feature-expected-on-windows-8-pcs/ Striving For An Informed World Sat, 25 May 2013 23:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anonymous http://nvonews.com/2012/04/29/windows-8-on-desktop-feature-expected-on-windows-8-pcs/#comment-526070 Anonymous Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:37:14 +0000 http://nvonews.com/?p=34586#comment-526070 What's Windows 8? You mean Bob 2.0? Welcome to fail. XP really was the best GUI. Simple and productive. What’s Windows 8? You mean Bob 2.0? Welcome to fail. XP really was the best GUI. Simple and productive.

]]> By: wp7dave http://nvonews.com/2012/04/29/windows-8-on-desktop-feature-expected-on-windows-8-pcs/#comment-525945 wp7dave Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:06:31 +0000 http://nvonews.com/?p=34586#comment-525945 Multiple monitor support has been around since Windows XP. Frankly, I think it has taken a step backwards in the consumer preview of Windows 8. The charms are a pain with multiple monitors that need a bigger hit area and visual queues (aka the start button, not the menu but the queue). So I can have different wall papers on different monitors. Having the taksbar be able to extend and include jump lists natively is a good thing bit Metro apps don't use the task bar and that is what they are pushing. I much prefer pinned taskbar apps to the start anything for launching and switching between programs. Splitting up the functions across 3 areas that were in one place (start menu) is a huge misstep. Windows 8is not for business. They will "sell" a number of licenses but not many will be installed. They learn from Vista 2 / ME 3 and Windows 9 is much better. Multiple monitor support has been around since Windows XP. Frankly, I think it has taken a step backwards in the consumer preview of Windows 8. The charms are a pain with multiple monitors that need a bigger hit area and visual queues (aka the start button, not the menu but the queue). So I can have different wall papers on different monitors. Having the taksbar be able to extend and include jump lists natively is a good thing bit Metro apps don’t use the task bar and that is what they are pushing. I much prefer pinned taskbar apps to the start anything for launching and switching between programs.

Splitting up the functions across 3 areas that were in one place (start menu) is a huge misstep. Windows 8is not for business. They will “sell” a number of licenses but not many will be installed.

They learn from Vista 2 / ME 3 and Windows 9 is much better.

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