I think people really need to cool off about Windows 8.

[richnrockville]

'nuff said.

Same here..

Rich

 

[Windows i7 920]

I've been reading some articles about Windows 8 and there's people that are freaking out about the interface change and how it's awful and the touchscreen interface is a disgrace. Keep in mind, that's the Start Screen. Microsoft isn't killing an interface that made them successful for the sake of tablets.

There isn't a Start Menu anymore, it's a Start Screen and it's replacing the menu.

That actually sounds kinda cool. I have a nice touchscreen laptop, so this sounds like a more natural UI for it. I'm always up for trying something new anyway. When I first saw Windows 7, I thought wow the new taskbar !@#$ing sucks! Then I tried it and ended up really liking it.

 

[Maguscreed]

Gone shall be the days when my monitor was clean and smear free....

 

[preiius]

Great, now in addition to RSI on my wrists and neck, I'll have it on my shoulders ..

 

[Coke Robot]

Oh dear, I just heard windows 8 isn't even real, it's all a conspiracy of the liberal media. Meant to destabilize family values.

HA!

 

[pparks1]

Gone shall be the days when my monitor was clean and smear free....

Yeah, and it annoyed me when people weren't supposed to touch the monitor. How annoying will it be when they are supposed to touch it.

 

[Maguscreed]

Of course it's also a great way to sell a ton of touch screen monitors as well.

 

[Phone Man]

Latest rumor is that MS will follow Mozilla and Windows 8 and all future releases will be "Windows Latest" so they won't have any conflicts with version numbers and as soon as the "Latest" version is released they will stop support for all previous releases. It will make it a lot easier on us as we can just have one forum "Windows Latest"

Jim

 

[Solarstarshines]

Well Mac has resorted to suing and having banned anything using the android platform, they already had the new galaxy banned in europe.
FOSS Patents: Apple sues Samsung over Android-based devices -- Samsung virtually certain to retaliate

I personally looked over the patents in question and don't get it.
Basically they are claiming rights to all touchscreen interfaces at this point.
...this is the basic reason I don't support Mac.

They're shotting themselves in the foot here though being as how samsung actually manufactures a good percentage of their hardware.

Well im not sure if you Heard but the makers of android just Bought Motorolla and there 17 million odd patents Apple isn't going to be sueing anyone

 

[preiius]

Touch is so yesteryear.

You want a kinect to track your eye movements to move the mouse. Blink once to single click, twice to double click. To drag and drop, close left eye and move your right eye. To hibernate, close both eyes and open mouth for 5s. To shutdown, let head fall to table. Patent pending.

Win8 accessory: Magical eye lotion, $30 per bottle.

 

[Coke Robot]

I just thought of something I read back in December of last year with 8 and the new user interface. Of course, desktop users hate the tablet interface, but Microsoft has said that a new interfaced code-named Wind, will and might replace both 32 and 64 bit versions of Aero. I went and found the article and it said that the Wind interface will be fully 3D and will adapt to the user's habits. How? I don't have a clue. But at the time, it needed 170 megs of video RAM and can only work on 64 bit systems. Microsoft might get that to work on both architectures. I think they will considering they got Windows 8 to render HD video on an ARM processor and can resize the window without framerate drops, or at least considerable ones.

I can't wait to see if this Wind interface is the new Aero...

New Windows 8 user interface codenamed ‘Wind’? | WinRumors

 

[Maguscreed]

I just thought of something I read back in December of last year with 8 and the new user interface. Of course, desktop users hate the tablet interface, but Microsoft has said that a new interfaced code-named Wind, will and might replace both 32 and 64 bit versions of Aero. I went and found the article and it said that the Wind interface will be fully 3D and will adapt to the user's habits. How? I don't have a clue. But at the time, it needed 170 megs of video RAM and can only work on 64 bit systems. Microsoft might get that to work on both architectures. I think they will considering they got Windows 8 to render HD video on an ARM processor and can resize the window without framerate drops, or at least considerable ones.

I can't wait to see if this Wind interface is the new Aero...

New Windows 8 user interface codenamed ‘Wind’? | WinRumors

Well I was just watching their little demo video of it.
Watch the new Windows 8 user interface demonstration [video] | WinRumors

and I was immediately reminded of this old video.
Microsoft Surface Parody - CollegeHumor Video

The fact of the matter here is Microsoft is just pushing a concept they came up with years ago, and it seemed just as ridiculous to me then as it does now.

 

[pparks1]

This interface is ridiculous. So, I can finger flick from application to application to find the ONE that I want to use. So, if I have 10 things running, I could have to flick past 10 things to get to it. There's a nice feature to increase the amount of time to do anything.

And am I on the only one who finds that using touch screens and such is just cumbersome? Seriously, I'd much rather scroll around with my mouse. Having to move my hands between a keyboard, and then touching a screen and going back to the keyboard is just going to be annoying from an ergo perspective.