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Ed Rooney · 1 October 2011, 11:55 AM

All I can do is quote Tom Hanks from Big-

I don't get it.

Tiles? Really? I click the start menu and it takes me to a totally new screen that looks like their new phone OS. It's just....stupid. I don't want to scroll through giant tiles to get to something that I know should be on a normal hierarchical menu. Just give me the menu, windows 95 style, please.

BarkMaster · 1 October 2011, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Ed Rooney

windows 95 style, please.

I just had flashbacks of the song "start me up"...

dddrees · 1 October 2011, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Ed Rooney

All I can do is quote Tom Hanks from Big-

I don't get it.

Tiles? Really? I click the start menu and it takes me to a totally new screen that looks like their new phone OS. It's just....stupid. I don't want to scroll through giant tiles to get to something that I know should be on a normal hierarchical menu. Just give me the menu, windows 95 style, please.

I understand they feel the need to change in order to entice people to buy something new, somtimes it's just best to leave some things the way they are.

daunwaun · 1 October 2011, 11:13 PM

I really don't get why?

CashGap · 2 October 2011, 11:25 AM

Installed it on my Mac as a VM.

I don't get it, I may try again later.

masterserg · 2 October 2011, 11:34 AM

From what I saw, when you click on a tile, and say open an XL sheet, it looks exactly like current version ... I haven't played with it, but the shots I saw looked very unfinished ... kinda like Windows Phone.

Do the tiles have any logic? Like size and position depending on what is open, new emails and stuff like that? Is there any integration of that navigation concept down the line or is it just a graphical start menu?

Ed Rooney · 3 October 2011, 02:17 AM

It's really, really rough, and they will probably dump some stuff. I understand the windows phone has some followers, but leave the stupid tiles on the phone.

They haven't really given anyone a compelling reason to move from XP.

MS is lost without Gates driving the ship.

Brunotheboxer · 3 October 2011, 02:35 AM

Pony up and get a mac already.

Speed · 3 October 2011, 04:30 AM

Haha

My company is still on XP.

I am running 7 on a custom built gaming box...but I use a Mac for everything else.

Yazo · 3 October 2011, 04:34 AM

Hope y'all realize the release that's out in the public... is not even a beta... it's an alpha, which is really really really far from what it will look like in when it finally releases.

Also, the intent of Windows 8 is to have 1 OS that can be used on any device.... tablets and PC's alike... if you're an Information Worker and don't like the Metro UI... you can switch back to Windows Classic mode with 1 touch.

God forbid someone not named Apple or Google try to do something innovative and different....

Speed · 3 October 2011, 04:42 AM

I'm all for innovation...but I rarely think of Microsoft and innovation in the same sentence...these days anyway.

Yazo · 3 October 2011, 06:52 AM

Hmmm... The Kinect... Photosynth... Surface... not innovative?

Zed Homme · 3 October 2011, 07:49 AM

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Hmmm... The Kinect... Photosynth... Surface... not innovative?

Sorry Sunny but the last decent thing that came out of Redmond was windows2k. I've never even heard of the three technologies that you just listed...

Ed Rooney · 3 October 2011, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Brunotheboxer

Pony up and get a mac already.

A couple of our C-letter guys just got Macbook Airs with Thunderbolt monitors.....pretty nice. I don't buy computers for myself, but that one makes me think about it. I really liked the keyboard

Brunotheboxer · 3 October 2011, 09:50 AM

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A couple of our C-letter guys just got Macbook Airs with Thunderbolt monitors.....pretty nice. I don't buy computers for myself, but that one makes me think about it. I really liked the keyboard

I knew you'd see the light eventually.

It's only a matter of time til you get an iPad and an iPhone too.

BarkMaster · 3 October 2011, 09:51 AM

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I knew you'd see the light eventually.

It's only a matter of time til you get an iPad and an iPhone too.

It is your destiny.

Brunotheboxer · 3 October 2011, 09:59 AM

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It is your destiny.

Do not underestimate the power of the Dark Side.

BarkMaster · 3 October 2011, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Brunotheboxer

Do not underestimate the power of the Dark Side.

Especially when combined with the Bark Side.

Yazo · 3 October 2011, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Zed Homme

Sorry Sunny but the last decent thing that came out of Redmond was windows2k. I've never even heard of the three technologies that you just listed...

Microsoft marketing sucks... something fierce... but the technology and innovation has always been there... we've just done a poor job of getting the word out:

Photosynth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BbuPPOVXQo

Surface:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VfpVYYQzHs

Kinect:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf44bWQr3jc

Brunotheboxer · 3 October 2011, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by BarkMaster

Especially when combined with the Bark Side.

Once you start down the Bark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.

BarkMaster · 3 October 2011, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Brunotheboxer

Once you start down the Bark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.

You can say that again.

Ed Rooney · 3 October 2011, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Brunotheboxer

I knew you'd see the light eventually.

It's only a matter of time til you get an iPad and an iPhone too.

I had a mac in 1984, so you are all n00bs.

CashGap · 4 October 2011, 12:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Yazo

Microsoft marketing sucks... something fierce... but the technology and innovation has always been there... we've just done a poor job of getting the word out:

Photosynth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BbuPPOVXQo

Surface:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VfpVYYQzHs

Kinect:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf44bWQr3jc

Kinect is nifty, and was a smart purchase by Microsoft. Not a smart development by Microsoft.

Surface - pointless, I thought it had already been abandoned. Photosynth - cute, obscure, it's been done.

I'm hoping Balmer may throw a few more menu ribbons on Office XIV, tighten down the screws a bit more when Windows X Premium Pro Office Mobile Connected Edition launches, then call it a career :)

The new "Turn your home into a PC store and have a cross-eyed untucked "cool" guy help you pick out a pretty computer" commercials are lame beyond lame, but I like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9HfdSp2E2A

dsio · 4 October 2011, 02:11 AM

Microsoft is dying, and it deserves to tbh.

Welshwatchman · 4 October 2011, 02:33 AM

I'll take a look in 2013/14 when it's safe.

1 October 2011, 11:55 AM	#1
Ed Rooney "TRF" Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Annapolis, MD Watch: Sea-Dweller 16600 Posts: 5,081	Anyone testing Windows 8? All I can do is quote Tom Hanks from Big- I don't get it. Tiles? Really? I click the start menu and it takes me to a totally new screen that looks like their new phone OS. It's just....stupid. I don't want to scroll through giant tiles to get to something that I know should be on a normal hierarchical menu. Just give me the menu, windows 95 style, please.

1 October 2011, 11:13 PM	#4
daunwaun "TRF" Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Real Name: Ken Location: toronto Watch: 18K YG Day Date Posts: 2,985	I really don't get why? __________________ DAUNWAUN

2 October 2011, 11:34 AM	#6
masterserg "TRF" Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Real Name: Serg Location: US of A Watch: AP Posts: 7,437	From what I saw, when you click on a tile, and say open an XL sheet, it looks exactly like current version ... I haven't played with it, but the shots I saw looked very unfinished ... kinda like Windows Phone. Do the tiles have any logic? Like size and position depending on what is open, new emails and stuff like that? Is there any integration of that navigation concept down the line or is it just a graphical start menu? __________________ How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat????

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4 October 2011, 02:33 AM	#25
Welshwatchman "TRF" Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Real Name: Paul Location: Wales, UK Posts: 14,578	I'll take a look in 2013/14 when it's safe. __________________ ..33

2 October 2011, 11:25 AM	#5
CashGap "TRF" Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Real Name: Blank Location: Romo Posts: 1,465	Installed it on my Mac as a VM. I don't get it, I may try again later.

3 October 2011, 02:17 AM	#7
Ed Rooney "TRF" Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Annapolis, MD Watch: Sea-Dweller 16600 Posts: 5,081	It's really, really rough, and they will probably dump some stuff. I understand the windows phone has some followers, but leave the stupid tiles on the phone. They haven't really given anyone a compelling reason to move from XP. MS is lost without Gates driving the ship.

3 October 2011, 02:35 AM	#8
Brunotheboxer Banned Join Date: Mar 2008 Real Name: Bruno Location: Boston/Cape Cod Watch: 16610,PAM. 111, G Posts: 7,608	Pony up and get a mac already.

3 October 2011, 04:30 AM	#9
Speed "TRF" Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: USA Posts: 19,743	Haha My company is still on XP. I am running 7 on a custom built gaming box...but I use a Mac for everything else.

3 October 2011, 04:34 AM	#10
Yazo "TRF" Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Dallas TX Watch: Rolex Posts: 2,812	Hope y'all realize the release that's out in the public... is not even a beta... it's an alpha, which is really really really far from what it will look like in when it finally releases. Also, the intent of Windows 8 is to have 1 OS that can be used on any device.... tablets and PC's alike... if you're an Information Worker and don't like the Metro UI... you can switch back to Windows Classic mode with 1 touch. God forbid someone not named Apple or Google try to do something innovative and different....

3 October 2011, 04:42 AM	#11
Speed "TRF" Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: USA Posts: 19,743	I'm all for innovation...but I rarely think of Microsoft and innovation in the same sentence...these days anyway.

3 October 2011, 06:52 AM	#12
Yazo "TRF" Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Dallas TX Watch: Rolex Posts: 2,812	Hmmm... The Kinect... Photosynth... Surface... not innovative?

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