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Whew, I was getting worried there for a minute, I can't be the only not-so-young person here! 
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 no your not the only one.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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My son looks at me like I'm some weird object of fascination (think knuckle dragging caveman), when I start talking about that time long, long ago before the interwebs.
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Yup!
"That sounds like the modem synchronization noise." brings stares of abject pity. 
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Clickety[^]
thatrajaCode converters | Education Needed
No thanks, I am all stocked up. - Luc Pattyn
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is - Henry Minute
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I get it but I don't.
I'd rather be phishing!
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True, yet again he missed it.
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Me thinks he doesn't care all that much, making 20 million a movie and all.
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Who's that?
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to build a Windows 8.1 machine at work. After 5 minutes of using it, I can honestly say I HATE it... with a passion... with extreme prejudice. No wonder this thing is failing in the market.
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Two Words: Classic Shell[^].
<voice type="Ebeneezer Scrooge"> Bah. dumb bugs </voice>
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I can't install that on an Enterprise machine where I need to test software on the "corporate" build.
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Really! Advertising no breadcrumbs like that is a feature. 
Why not go back to running Windows 3.11 if you want the retro look and feel? 
I know people are resistant to change but get real. Some changes are for the better.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Indeed. But this isn't one of those. Get Real.
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Mike Winiberg wrote: Indeed. But this isn't one of those. Get Real.
I am being real. I use the breadcrumbs a lot to go up more than one level.
You may not. That is why they call it a personal computer.
What features do you like about Windows 8/8.1?
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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best feature? Being able to downgrade to Win7!
Steve
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Steve Mayfield wrote: Being able to downgrade to Win7!
Why upgrade then if you want to stay on Windows 7?
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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JimmyRopes wrote: Why upgrade then if you want to stay on Windows 7?
Because of newest and greatest and all that and then finding out it's not. I must say, I hate my windows phone, all symbols/icons, you have to remember what each symbol means and I can't. I can't go back, my old phone is gone.
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KP Lee wrote: Because of newest and greatest and all that and then finding out it's not.
The UI is brash, but that is only the facade.
Security was updated, but then why should security be important.
KP Lee wrote: I hate my windows phone, all symbols/icons, you have to remember what each symbol means and I can't.
You can always get an android or, if you have money to burn, an iPhone. Caution, they have icons also. 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Its a shame that people only seem to focus on the UI as a major problem (Don't even see it as a problem) and instead completely ignoring all the other massive benefits to the OS. Such as;
Better performance
Access to the latest Dev kits for WP8, W8, DX11.2 etc.
Almost all the UI is vastly superior, such as windows explorer. No Aero for performance improvements, task manager etc.
More secure than 7
Plenty of excellent tools that just don't exist in 7: such as Drive Pooling and local Hyper-V virtual machines!
Seriously, Local Hyper-V is a godlike for virtual machines and I think its terrible that hardly anyone even knows about it! I just don't see how with all these major improvements and dozens more that I haven't mentioned, how could people base their decision to nerf their computer life for the sake of having a start menu. (ClassicShell?)
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Well said.
Now that I do have a start menu in Windows 8.1 I never use it because I got used to just typing the name of the program I want to execute on the start page. It is a lot faster than navigating start button==>all programs.
Some people resist learning new ways to do things to their own detriment.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
modified 4-Mar-14 4:56am.
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crazy cause I has been doing that search on the star menu since crap Vista!!!!
I agree that we can't blame the full OS cause of the UI, since I installed Star8 I'm being comfortable I just avoid the metro UI, only problem I have at this moment is the synaptic gestures, it's a crap that it show the side menus every time I slide my finger to the left and I can't remove that gesture (trust me i tried) I'm very close to uninstall synaptic...
But I must tell, there is not to much value in win8 to really need to change from Win7, the repulsion you feel from the metro UI is stronger that the wins. (and honestly I don't see those wins, any 4 cores cpu will work the same)
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Member 4673202 wrote: crazy cause I has been doing that search on the star menu since crap Vista
I guess I am just a creature of habit and only change my behavior when forced to do it. 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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I absolutely agree! I’ve used Win 8 for about a year now & will not go back.
That said Win 8’s launch left a lot to be desired. From a UX perspective I hate the fact that you’re supposed to magically know the new gestures. Granted they make perfect sense; but it’s like I’m in the late 60’s staring at some odd device hooked to a computer that rolls round the desk with a button on top... wondering what the #*$@ is that!
I love the start screen design and I believe MS is right; it has the potential to segment average users from power users. I hope/suspect MS will start rolling out features specific to each type of user. I’d love to see a Linux styled multi-desktop feature! They can do that now without confusing average users who live on the start screen.
For the time begin the best Win 8 devices out are touch-screen laptops. Win 8 really is a transition OS. Parts of the OS work best via touch and others via keyboard & mouse/touchpad. The OS feels wrong in places if you don’t have all 3 input devices. MS has work to do to get Win 8 feeling good on a traditional desktop hardware and “desktop mode” on a tablet. I expect to see Win 8 RT and Win Phone to somehow merge.
- great coders make code look easy
- When humans are doing things computers could be doing instead, the computers get together late at night and laugh at us. - ¿Neal Ford?
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