Re:Windows 8 launch date announced: October 26th
by outside1234 on Thursday July 19, 2012 @12:30AM
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have you tried it? I want to bash on it but its actually pretty good. they have solved a hard problem of making an OS scale between laptop, desktop, and tablet. the interface is clean and consistent and increasingly the whole Microsoft line is coherent with a simular interface.
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Re:Windows 8 launch date announced: October 26th
by fbeans on Thursday July 19, 2012 @05:21AM
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A problem that imo doesn't exist. A tablet is different to a phone is different to a desktop computer. This OS may be "solving" some problems, but it seems to be doing it at a cost, reducing functionality on the desktop. Besides, who even /has/ a windows phone or tablet? Who would want one?
Re:Windows 8 launch date announced: October 26th
by pmelendez on Thursday July 19, 2012 @06:17AM
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Apple might disagree with you... There is a trend where OSX is getting slowly but steadily closer to iOS.
Re:Windows 8 launch date announced: October 26th
by freehunter on Thursday July 19, 2012 @02:13PM
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"reducing functionality on the desktop."
That's a pretty bold claim when the desktop still exists exactly like it did in Windows 7. Basically you're saying that all of the functionality of Windows came from having a start menu that is a couple inches tall and a couple inches wide, and by increasing that space it is now less functional. Listen to yourself, seriously.
"Besides, who even /has/ a windows phone or tablet? Who would want one?"
Millions. And to answer the second question, millions.