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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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(Score: 5, Funny) by tftp on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:33AM
Charms are essential. That's where they have the "Search" button that, once pressed, tells you that the search on the desktop does not work (pray tell, why?) They also have the sharing button there that doesn't do a thing. You can't live without those invaluable controls.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Wednesday February 19 2014, @04:01PM
I also laughed my ass off the first time somebody told me the Charms bar could be opened with Windows+C. And how the hell would I know that this thing is called the Charms bar? Does it even say "charms" on the bar? And I need to know it's there in the first place, let alone what it's named.
Oh, but there's a one-time tutorial the first time you log in. Well okay, I guess everything's fine then.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Jaruzel on Wednesday February 19 2014, @07:28PM
Oh, but there's a one-time tutorial the first time you log in. Well okay, I guess everything's fine then.
And you didn't even get that until the Windows 8.1 'Bugfix' :D
-Jar
This is my opinion, there are many others, but this one is mine.
(Score: 1) by tangomargarine on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:06PM
So when Windows 8 first came out, we were just left with this [youtube.com]?
Winning!
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1) by jonh on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:19PM
Windows 8 is super-intuitive! To shut down your PC from the keyboard all you need to do is this:
I wish I was joking... (And if there is a quicker way, please put me out of my misery and tell me how... :)
(Score: 2, Informative) by ridley4 on Thursday February 20 2014, @12:24AM
Win+R for the run box, then 'shutdown /s /t 0' should still work, or '/r /t 0' if you want a reboot. For some reason the shutdown command defaults to 30s, so /t 0 will make it skip that. There's probably some sort of reason behind that, because it's not the usual way to shut down a windows box.
(Score: 1) by tangomargarine on Thursday February 20 2014, @04:35PM
Especially hilarious that it's pretty much faster to do it on Windows with a command line, considering that with (X)Ubuntu, it's all of 2 clicks with a taskbar widget.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"