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Microsoft demos Windows 8 user interface

article published on 13 September, 2011

Microsoft just showed off an early development build of Windows 8 at the Windows BUILD keynote. Steve Sinofsky took to the stage to boast some stats on the success of Windows 7, but that's not what we wanted to hear/see (we'll talk about that later.) What we wanted to see is how is Microsoft going to revamp Windows so much to justify the comparisons to the changes made when Windows 95 ... [ read the full article ]

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13. September 2011 @ 15:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Quote:
Julie unlocks the screen by tapping areas of her daughter's picture in a sequential order, and the screen unlocks if she gets it right.

could have done a better job then using that as an example
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13. September 2011 @ 16:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
everyone has like 6 gigs of ram nowaday who cares if it drops 100mbs lol
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13. September 2011 @ 16:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by FatalAD:
everyone has like 6 gigs of ram nowaday who cares if it drops 100mbs lol
Really. Everyone has 6GB RAM these days?
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13. September 2011 @ 17:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Still don't like the design, using less resources or no. This may have to grow on a lot of people, but I give MS this, they actually seem to be trying to make their OS better for a change. There's more bold changes coming in this OS since MS moved from 3.11 to 95.

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Originally posted by Mysttic:
Still don't like the design, using less resources or no. This may have to grow on a lot of people, but I give MS this, they actually seem to be trying to make their OS better for a change. There's more bold changes coming in this OS since MS moved from 3.11 to 95.
Ye I think the Metro UI is something a lot of people won't really use a lot if using a PC or notebook, but its simple tap of Windows key to change between Metro UI and more traditional Windows Desktop UI.
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13. September 2011 @ 17:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by FatalAD:
everyone has like 6 gigs of ram nowaday who cares if it drops 100mbs lol
i have 16gb of ram.....so your wrong :D
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13. September 2011 @ 19:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I do phone tech support. I cannot imagine trying to help some novice that has this UI installed. It will be a nightmare.

Oh, Im sorry... Did the middle of my sentence interrupt the beginning of yours?
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13. September 2011 @ 22:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
well I have been thinking a lot of bad things about windows 8 but after this I see that it has a lot of good changes as well. looks like with some small customizations it will be a improvement over windows 7.
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13. September 2011 @ 23:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Windows 8 will probably be a Windows ME version of 7. Windows 9 will be the fix, while 10 prepares for beta testing. lol


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13. September 2011 @ 23:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
FatalAD, none of my customers have 6gigs of ram as the highest is 4gigs.
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13. September 2011 @ 23:54 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Dela:
Originally posted by FatalAD:
everyone has like 6 gigs of ram nowaday who cares if it drops 100mbs lol
Really. Everyone has 6GB RAM these days?
There's people who don't have 3 yet. My opinion is that they should drop support for x86 processors. This will hopefully make the OS cheaper and it'll prevent people with low end processors upgrading and having their systems run slow. Apple did a good thing by dropping x86 support.
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13. September 2011 @ 23:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by skeil909:
Windows 8 will probably be a Windows ME version of 7. Windows 9 will be the fix, while 10 prepares for beta testing. lol


While I sit back on my Mac for years to come and watch Windows go through 5 OS's.
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13. September 2011 @ 23:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by JGJD2001:
Originally posted by FatalAD:
everyone has like 6 gigs of ram nowaday who cares if it drops 100mbs lol
i have 16gb of ram.....so your wrong :D
Don't you feel accomplished.
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14. September 2011 @ 00:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
core2kid, why do you have 3 posts in a row which is a forum rule no no?
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14. September 2011 @ 00:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by ddp:
core2kid, why do you have 3 posts in a row which is a forum rule no no?
Because there's no "Quote Multiple" like most of the other forums out there.
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14. September 2011 @ 00:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by core2kid:
Originally posted by skeil909:
Windows 8 will probably be a Windows ME version of 7. Windows 9 will be the fix, while 10 prepares for beta testing. lol


While I sit back on my Mac for years to come and watch Windows go through 5 OS's.
You do know Mac updates as often as Windows right?

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14. September 2011 @ 00:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by DVDBack23:
Originally posted by core2kid:
Originally posted by skeil909:
Windows 8 will probably be a Windows ME version of 7. Windows 9 will be the fix, while 10 prepares for beta testing. lol


While I sit back on my Mac for years to come and watch Windows go through 5 OS's.
You do know Mac updates as often as Windows right?
Not their OS and it doesn't cost an arm and leg even if they do.
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14. September 2011 @ 00:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by JGJD2001:
Originally posted by FatalAD:
everyone has like 6 gigs of ram nowaday who cares if it drops 100mbs lol
i have 16gb of ram.....so your wrong :D
Really??? Really???

2 words for ya.............."over", "kill"
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14. September 2011 @ 00:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
core2kid, next time edit your last post as per forum rules.
12. Repeated posts to increase total number of posts is not allowed. Especially if your message is the last in the thread, edit it rather than post a new message.
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Originally posted by core2kid:
Originally posted by skeil909:
Windows 8 will probably be a Windows ME version of 7. Windows 9 will be the fix, while 10 prepares for beta testing. lol


While I sit back on my Mac for years to come and watch Windows go through 5 OS's.
Yeah........and MACs remain as unchanged, plain-jane and boring as Hell..................just like Apple's mindless, twit, unthinking, conformist users waiting to be taken to their alien creators in the sky.


Originally posted by ddp:
don't need a flamewar so watch the comments.
Meesa sorry.

BUT...........gotta admit. That new donut shaped Apple HQ would make the perfect spaceship after collecting all the MAC-heads and bringing them to their alien master right??? :)

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don't need a flamewar so watch the comments.
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14. September 2011 @ 00:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by hearme0:
Originally posted by core2kid:
Originally posted by skeil909:
Windows 8 will probably be a Windows ME version of 7. Windows 9 will be the fix, while 10 prepares for beta testing. lol


While I sit back on my Mac for years to come and watch Windows go through 5 OS's.
Yeah........and MACs remain as unchanged, plain-jane and boring as Hell..................just like Apple's mindless, twit, unthinking, conformist users waiting to be taken to their alien creators in the sky.
When I hit the power button, it's gonna load Mac. Not some Gay A$$ error that nobody knows the meaning to.

Don't get me wrong, I'll never support Apple straight (Bought on Ebay and fixed) but when I need a laptop every day, I'm gonna get a Mac.


Originally posted by ddp:
core2kid, next time edit your last post as per forum rules.
12. Repeated posts to increase total number of posts is not allowed. Especially if your message is the last in the thread, edit it rather than post a new message.

Better? AD Should really think about a "Quote multiple" button.

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I had a Pentium 4 with 4 gigs of ram 7 years ago. my phone has a gig of ram for Christ sake, lol and its dual core.

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Originally posted by hearme0:
Originally posted by JGJD2001:
Originally posted by FatalAD:
everyone has like 6 gigs of ram nowaday who cares if it drops 100mbs lol
i have 16gb of ram.....so your wrong :D
Really??? Really???

2 words for ya.............."over", "kill"
I guess you only use your computer for gaming. I have 12GB and I still get out of RAM sometimes.
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14. September 2011 @ 10:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yeah, you actually don't need much for gaming, other than showing off how many simultaneous instances of whatever you can do. It's all about CPU's coupled with moderate RAM and awesome GPU's for gaming. But when you have several image editors open, some music playing, a couple of browsers with dozens of tabs of related content rolling, FTP's and their related HTML/CSS editors chugging, and that game you play for a four minute break, along with IRC clients, instant messengers, anti-virus, and what else have you then RAM disappears alarmingly quick (especially if that break-game is Minecraft lol).

Little pointless rant aside, I don't think I like the Metro UI at all. I'm glad to see M$ finally at least trying to reduce their needed resources when coming out with something new, and I'm sure it will be fine enough after 7. I just hope they keep in mind that people do have multiple OS's in a household and make the thing network properly out of the box so I don't have to go mucking about in the registry like I've had to do with every single 7 PC I've tried making work with XP for customers.
 
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