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Re:Windows 8 Pro Upgrade to cost $39.99 by WiseWeasel on Monday July 02, 2012 @04:18PM (#4190761)
The pole is to keep that cluttered ribbon interface away from my relatively clean Explorer windows, the touch-centric gestures away from my mouse-driven desktop, and to ward off the mental expense of context changes as my environment switches between the classic desktop with classic apps, the start screen and various metro apps.
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Re:Windows 8 Pro Upgrade to cost $39.99 by novalis on Monday July 02, 2012 @05:42PM (#4191183)
Hey, I skipped ME and Vista, that is why the VM gets a whirl first. We shall see.
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Re:Windows 8 Pro Upgrade to cost $39.99 by cooldeal on Monday July 02, 2012 @05:00PM (#4190985)
>The pole is to keep that cluttered ribbon interface away from my relatively clean Explorer windows

The ribbon is minimized by default.

What's cluttered about this more than Windows 7? http://techdows.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/expand-the-ri...

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Re:Windows 8 Pro Upgrade to cost $39.99 by WiseWeasel on Monday July 02, 2012 @05:16PM (#4191064)
The most glaring offense is the poor organization and positioning of the elements. Notice the many different areas the groups of widgets are scattered.
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