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Since Microsoft has publicly acknowledged the existence of "Windows 'Blue'", there has already the first video made its way out to the web.
The german computer magazine chip.de has posted[^] it on their website.
Edited title so it doesn't look like a repost from Ravi
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I glanced through the video and didn't see them show an option to remove "what-shall-not-be-called-metro" (a la "turn windows features on or off->[Insert MS Crap here: IE, Media Player, Media Center etc]").
there's nothing new in "Blue" then, eh?
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bitterskittles wrote: there's nothing new in "Blue" then, eh?
You can adjust the size of the tiles forming the metro %whateveryouwanttocallit%. Plus, I assume many of the imptovements will happen "under the hood", as they did when they realised they made a mistake releasing Vista.
Don't get me wrong, I like Win 8 and Metro. And I don't miss the Start-Button, I hit the windows key, type the program name and hit Enter. The program launches. Nice and easy.
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I especially like the new feature at 2:15 (3-part split screen), makes Metro apps looks less wasteful with screen space.
Also most features in the video kinda have the "this should've been there from the start" feeling. Granted MS users are already familiar with this I assume
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szukuro wrote: "this should've been there from the start" feeling.
Most of us know this feeling from the Vista / 7 story... Sadly .
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Much of which was that by the time w7 was out the 3rd parties had finally updated their code past XP. Drivers (video, audio, printer) were rewritten and optimized for the 6.x kernel; consumer apps no longer blithely assumed they would be running with admin rights when they didn't really need them; etc.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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