Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain than Candy Crush

Re:Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain tha... by walterbell on Sunday February 04, 2018 @10:29AM (#16303093)

Have you tried Start10, which helped to bring the menu back? It’s modelled on Win7 start menu. https://www.stardock.com/products/start10/

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Re:Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain tha... by petepete on Sunday February 04, 2018 @11:24AM (#16303340)

While this is nice I shouldn't need to install extra software for such basic functionality.

Was Windows 7's start menu really so bad? On personal machines, whatever, but games ads shouldn't be forcefully appearing on a tool I want to use for work.

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Re:Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain tha... by titanix2 on Sunday February 04, 2018 @01:29PM (#16304029)

No I didn’t. I used Classic Shell in some test VM and it did the job well but as petepete said it it should be a builtin feature.

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Re:Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain tha... by walterbell on Sunday February 04, 2018 @02:21PM (#16304323)

Windows 10 and Windows 7 are almost two different products. Microsoft will soon require opt-in to sideload apps, which is the beginning of the end for the Win32 ecosystem of Windows 7. For those who want control of their computing experience, the options are to switch operating systems, or buy 3rd-party products to modify Windows. Even those may disappear, once non-store apps are blocked.

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Re:Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain tha... by BenjiWiebe on Sunday February 04, 2018 @03:06PM (#16304610)

If non-store apps get blocked and if it takes more than an opt-in to unblock them, that will be the end of Windows. Enterprise software is far from being Windows Metro ready. Really really far from it. We rely on some software that hasn't been updated since Windows 98 era. It works fine, we can't find a good replacement for it, and we'd be really upset if we had to quit using it arbitrarily...

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Re:Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain tha... by walterbell on Sunday February 04, 2018 @05:04PM (#16305206)

Nothing official yet, possibly a fee for Windows 10 Pro, https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/3/16968024/microsoft-windows...

"Microsoft is planning a new “S Mode” for Windows 10 Home, Enterprise, and Pro. This S Mode will essentially lock down any copy of Windows 10 so it can only run apps from the Microsoft Store, and does exactly what the dedicated Windows 10 S operating system was built to do ... Microsoft is reportedly planning to allow Windows 10 Home users to disable the S Mode free of charge, but Windows 10 Pro customers with S Mode enabled on their device will be forced to pay $49 to get access to a full version of Windows 10 Pro."

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Re:Microsoft Office could be a bigger productivity drain tha... by titanix2 on Sunday February 04, 2018 @07:38PM (#16305800)

I already switched years ago to Mac. Even Apple didn’t make such a bold/foolish move as forbidding 3rd party app to run. If Windows takes this road no problem for me, erasing my bootcamp partition* and installing Win 7/8.1 would take a few hours and problem solved. But that would be a real problem for non technical people doing real work with their PC.

* which can be booted in VirtualBox from OS which is the way I use it most of the time.

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