Comments on: Windows 8 & Metro with Mouse and Keyboard http://blog.superuser.com/2012/03/09/win8-metro-review/ The Super User Community Blog Fri, 17 May 2013 10:41:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Dave http://blog.superuser.com/2012/03/09/win8-metro-review/#comment-10429 Dave Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:43:25 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=4821#comment-10429 First they tried to jam a desktop OS onto a phone and that was an epic fail, so now they have decided to inflate a touch screen designed OS onto people’s desktops. I support 90 people who use 120 systems in our organization. THERE IS NO BUSINESS CASE TO INSTALL THIS!!! There will be some performance based cases such as SMB 3.0 but the amount of time and cost to retrain people would cause so much disruption that anything gained in performance based on faster file transfers would be lost. The same can be said for Server 2012. I have SA so I won’t have to pay for it. The deduplication features and other new management tools are great but the GUI is terrible, IMHO. It is almost as if Microsoft said “We’ll never be able to beat Apple at the Eye Candy game, let’s just revert to 8bit graphics so it will be simpler to design”. The “Everyone must use PowerShell” attitude is also driving me nuts. CLI tools are best used for automating batch processes, or quickly displaying extended sets of information. Forcing people to use PS for mundane tasks wastes time due to people having to look-up the insane as hell syntax. It eliminates any sense of convenience that the MS Developers who eat and breath it seem to think it creates.

]]> By: Windows Metro explicado | Alpha's Manifesto http://blog.superuser.com/2012/03/09/win8-metro-review/#comment-6151 Windows Metro explicado | Alpha's Manifesto Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:04:34 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=4821#comment-6151 [...] Este artículo no tiene desperdicio, ya que me pareció totalmente balanceado y acorde con una opinión crítica. Da muy buenos consejos para los que estamos curiosos de Windows 8 pero no sabemos cómo seguir adelante. Ya comprarlo? Usarlo? Instalarlo? Máquina virtual o disco real? Qué me pierdo? Qué tiene? Vale la pena? Todas esas preguntas están respuestas en este artículo: Windows 8 & Metro with Mouse and Keyboard. [...]

]]> By: Alex http://blog.superuser.com/2012/03/09/win8-metro-review/#comment-6084 Alex Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:54:23 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=4821#comment-6084 I must admit after playing around with Windows 8 for a day or 2 I was not impressed. I felt like sure it looked good but I do not use any of the new features! I found myself constantly on the desktop. Logging in with a Windows Live ID was weird as I use google services (docs, mail, talk, etc).

It just feels like in the future if Microsoft and Google need to work together somewhat in order to avoid this kind of annoyance.

]]> By: Sajith http://blog.superuser.com/2012/03/09/win8-metro-review/#comment-5929 Sajith Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:26:17 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=4821#comment-5929 Actually Ubuntu 10.10 came with classical Gnome 2 desktop. Only the Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition came with unity interface. Canonical introduced Unity as the default desktop interface with the release of Ubuntu 11.04

]]> By: that guy http://blog.superuser.com/2012/03/09/win8-metro-review/#comment-5926 that guy Sat, 10 Mar 2012 07:05:26 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=4821#comment-5926 Any browser in any version of windows can go full screen using the F11 key, it removes all the task bars and bookmarks etc… if that is your preference.

]]> By: hkh http://blog.superuser.com/2012/03/09/win8-metro-review/#comment-5917 hkh Sat, 10 Mar 2012 04:13:44 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=4821#comment-5917 I’ve tested this version of OS before this, about a month ago. I have one word to say: DISGUSTING. I don’t think it makes me to changes my OS. I prefer to use ubuntu rather this wired kind of OS:-D

]]> By: thinkin http://blog.superuser.com/2012/03/09/win8-metro-review/#comment-5916 thinkin Sat, 10 Mar 2012 03:59:06 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=4821#comment-5916 I saw the heatmap image above and thought it was skin for windows 8 and thought finally windows had designed a nice interface and gotten rid of the god aweful blues and greens!! Ironic that their heat map look better than their normal interface.

]]> By: notatoad http://blog.superuser.com/2012/03/09/win8-metro-review/#comment-5892 notatoad Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:06:53 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=4821#comment-5892 “I don’t fully understand the consequences of binding your computer and your user account to your Hotmail/Messenger/MSDN/Microsoft credentials.”

your MS account is your windows store account. anything you download from windows store gets synced across all computers you log in to with that MS account.

]]> By: badp http://blog.superuser.com/2012/03/09/win8-metro-review/#comment-5883 badp Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:20:57 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=4821#comment-5883 CMD, thank you for the report. It wasn’t indeed 10.04 (what was I thinking?!) but Ubuntu 10.10 (as Wikipedia confirms).

]]> By: CMD http://blog.superuser.com/2012/03/09/win8-metro-review/#comment-5874 CMD Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:21:30 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=4821#comment-5874 Oh and i forgot to add, I’ve had decent dual monitors in Linux for a long time qwith Nvidia cards, that is without Unity though.

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