Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1
by stan_rogers on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @03:31PM
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Except that that gets you precisely one option, which isn't even normally the one I'm looking for. When pressing the power button somehow gives the the restart/sleep/shutdown option, then it will make sense.
Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1
by T-hawk on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @03:34PM
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This has been around forever, since at least Windows 2000. The power button signals the OS through ACPI to shut down correctly. It wasn't always reliable on all hardware and BIOSes, and didn't always default to that behavior until set in Control Panel - Power Options, but soft power-off is supposed to have been working for a long time and is hardly new.
Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1
by yuhong on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @03:45PM
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Yea, Windows has required ACPI to boot since Vista.
Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1
by akandiah on Thursday April 03, 2014 @07:36AM
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> Or just press the power button, which actually does make a lot of sense.
No it doesn't. Pressing the power button implements what the PC maker wants to implement. In many cases (especially on laptops) it's for the computer to go to sleep.
There are a lot of things about Metro that I dislike, but killing the "don't touch the power button on a computer" idiom is one that I do like.