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stmuk writes:
"BGR reflects on recent comments by a Metro designer. 'Metro is a content consumption space,' Microsoft UX designer Jacob Miller explains, 'It is designed for casual users who only want to check Facebook, view some photos, and maybe post a selfie to Instagram. It's designed for your computer illiterate little sister, for grandpas who don't know how to use that computer dofangle thingy, and for mom who just wants to look up apple pie recipes. It's simple, clear, and does one thing (and only one thing) relatively easily. That is what Metro is. It is the antithesis of a power user.'"
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Windows 8 Designer Explains Why It Annoys You
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My Aunt MAUREEN was a military advisor to IKE & TINA TURNER!!
(Score: 5, Funny) by Hyper on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:24AM
Shutting down in Windows8 is easy. Just create a shortcut on the desktop with the following target:
or hold the computer power button for 10 seconds.
(Score: 1) by Landon on Wednesday February 19 2014, @04:17PM
It took me a while to find this one, but put your mouse in the top right corner, go down to Settings and then select the power option. (I did have the shutdown.exe shortcut on my desktop for a few months first though... :$ )
(Score: 1) by Jaruzel on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:04PM
Tsk. You N00bs. :)
Bottom left corner, right click. A surprisingly useful menu appears full of lots of goodies. On it choose 'Shutdown or sign out >'.
Right clicking on a corner with no visual indicator that there's something there must be REALLY obvious in MS land, or something... *mind boggles*
-Jar
This is my opinion, there are many others, but this one is mine.
(Score: 1) by Hyper on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:12PM
Bottom left corner? Right click? D'uh! How could I possibly have missed that?
Obviously my years in IT have been a complete waste. I should start again in a new field, wookworking perhaps :p
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 19 2014, @11:40PM
Of course, for that to be possible you need to be using a mouse rather than a touchscreen. So much for that unified interface...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2014, @02:48AM
Upgrade tablets to have mouse cursor and virtual right click button pad
If SCUMM can do it then google can!
(Score: 1) by Hyper on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:16PM
This may be a case calling for a *whoosh* HOWEVER... I never found the shutdown command under Power. Only learnt about it while reading forums full of people complaining about the hidden parts of Windows 8.
Pride would not let me search the internet for something so basic as shutting down windows so I spent the first few days trying to figure it out for myself. Oh well. Perhaps I would have accidentally found it one day.
(Score: 1) by meisterister on Wednesday February 19 2014, @11:32PM
Nonononononono! That takes far to long! All you have to do is unplug the unholy abomination and then drive a stake through its hard drive!
(May or may not have been) Posted from my K6-2, Athlon XP, or Pentium I/II/III.