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Windows 8 Designer Explains Why It Annoys You

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:27AM   
from the you-had-one-job-ONE-JOB dept.

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.'"

• Re:I don't buy it Re:I don't buy it (Score: 2, Informative) by ridley4 on Thursday February 20 2014, @12:24AM

  by ridley4 (2025) on Thursday February 20 2014, @12:24AM (#3004)

  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.

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• Re:I don't buy it (Score: 1) by tangomargarine on Thursday February 20 2014, @04:35PM

  by tangomargarine (667) on Thursday February 20 2014, @04:35PM (#3558)

  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.

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