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Microsoft's Windows 8 Goals Revealed (Leaked)
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| 29 June 2010
| Gavin Clarke
Posted on 06/28/2010 7:13:38 PM PDT by dayglored
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To: driftdiver
To: dayglored
[...] just don't let your cat or anything else with a face near the screen when you're trying to log on. Unless you have a black cat!
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posted on
06/28/2010 7:35:20 PM PDT
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: driftdiver; ProtectOurFreedom
>
Thats two. So much for technical discussion. ProtectOurFreedom raised points that were valid a few releases ago. Not nearly so valid with Win7. I think I answered his criticism adequately. We can move on.
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posted on
06/28/2010 7:37:01 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: dayglored
Not on 7 yet. I understand IT has slated the move sometime before the end of the year.
Cygwin...sounds like vast overkill. I’ve got a simple batch file that does the trick, but you have to have at least one folder in a directory to invoke it.
To: Zakeet
>
I know you want us to be serious, but somehow my feeble mind got a picture of Helen Thomas trying to logon using facial recognition ... and then I got an image of a computer puking its chips up until it eventually brought up the blue screen of death. ROFL! Good point!
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posted on
06/28/2010 7:38:49 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
I want the up one folder button back. Using the sidebar / ribbon or whatever the hell it is just sucks. Yes I know it takes only a few seconds more, but seconds become minutes, minutes become hours and hours become days and so on and so on.
Oh and I hope they fixed the search in Windows 7 or 8. The search feature worked great in XP, but it’s barely usable in Vista. In fact it’s hard to pick which new search feature is worse, Vista’s or Freerepublic’s.
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posted on
06/28/2010 7:40:48 PM PDT
by
qam1
(There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
To: dayglored
Microsoft is coming out with a gaming technology that not only uses facial recognition but also recognizes hand and feet motion.
Think Wii sports without the remote.
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posted on
06/28/2010 7:40:56 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
>
Not on 7 yet. I understand IT has slated the move sometime before the end of the year. It will be a bit of a lurch from W2K or XP, but well worth it. I hated Vista after XP, but I find Win7 quite good. I hope you do too.
> Cygwin...sounds like vast overkill. Ive got a simple batch file that does the trick, but you have to have at least one folder in a directory to invoke it.
Oh, it is indeed vast overkill. OTOH it's free and doesn't step on anything else, and you get the entire Unix/Linux command set. Assuming that's of any interest, of course.
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posted on
06/28/2010 7:41:08 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: dayglored
Consider me. I have resisted buying a cell phone for a long time. I finally bought one for a while, but I let the contract expire and haven't replaced it. My main computer, however, is a laptop, and it has been this way since 2003.
But my attitude towards my next computer has profoundly shifted lately. My next computer will be a large, pimped out desktop machine. But my laptop will become a smartphone, like a Dell Streak. Smartphones are much more portable than the laptop, portable enough that I will actually take it places. The smartphones are not as powerful as the laptops, but most won't care. It will do most jobs well enough. And on the desktop side, since I won't be taking it anywhere, I might as well make it a server, not just putting my laptop on a desk. So my computing power will be split between the big and the very small.
That I think is the coming market space in a nutshell, very big, and very small, with a growing gap in between. The race is on to develop that small mobile computer market space. Apple, Google via android, and Microsoft will be the players. And don't scoff at Microsoft being in last place, they tend to be last in every new thing, but they will end up getting things right eventually.
To: driftdiver
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Microsoft is coming out with a gaming technology that not only uses facial recognition but also recognizes hand and feet motion. Think Wii sports without the remote. I've seen a video demo of that, I think, maybe two weeks ago. Pretty cool, although to be honest, I'd feel like a complete dweeb dancing around like that in front of a computer. But then, I'm 58 and don't look nearly so buff doing silly things as I used to... :)
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posted on
06/28/2010 7:43:32 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: Vince Ferrer
>
That I think is the coming market space in a nutshell, very big, and very small, with a growing gap in between. The race is on to develop that small mobile computer market space. Apple, Google via android, and Microsoft will be the players. And don't scoff at Microsoft being in last place, they tend to be last in every new thing, but they will end up getting things right eventually. Interesting analysis. And you're right to not count Microsoft out. They've had lots of trouble in the mobile area so far, but they've still got time to learn what it's about.
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posted on
06/28/2010 7:46:35 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: driftdiver
What do you think about the "reset" feature mentioned in the article? I've noticed (as has just about everyone else who runs Windows) that their systems slow down to about half-speed over the course of a year. It's accumulated garbage, Registry junk, disk fragmentation (unless you defrag regularly), buildup of background tasks, and so forth.
Will a "reset" do the trick? I find the idea rather interesting, since it would save me my ritual "reload Windows from scratch every so often".
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posted on
06/28/2010 7:50:46 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: driftdiver
As a person who occasionally roams the halls of Redmond, all I can say is Win8 - you ain’t see nothin yet...;)
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posted on
06/28/2010 7:52:38 PM PDT
by
PugetSoundSoldier
(Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the defense of the indefensible)
To: dayglored
“What do you think about the “reset” feature mentioned in the article?”
I’m skeptical that it will work or is really needed. Dell basically has that feature now with their hidden partition.
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posted on
06/28/2010 7:55:48 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
As for your first request, try Win7. I've got somewhere North of 300 programs installed, and usually have 10-15 open, including some with 500 MB FEA and 3D CAD files open.
As for the second request, here's a REALLY EASY way to do it:
Click the Windows Start button and select "Run..."
type "cmd" and
Type "dir > listing.txt" and
Done. Remember you have a full shell with all versions of Windows; there's a ton of functionality there. I still use some batch files I wrote for my older software configs, and they run great.
Or, if you want to stay in the GUI, there is Servant Salamander that will do what you want.
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posted on
06/28/2010 8:01:14 PM PDT
by
PugetSoundSoldier
(Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the defense of the indefensible)
To: driftdiver
Here's a gif of the demo. It's a cat petting game.
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posted on
06/28/2010 8:04:38 PM PDT
by
Richard Kimball
(We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
To: dayglored
What do you think about the "reset" feature mentioned in the article?Why can't the software take care of this on its own? It should know what is going on that is going to cause problems and it should take care of that stuff in the background. If there are options, then it can ask what I want to do, but otherwise, the software should take care of itself.
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posted on
06/28/2010 8:11:10 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(The Obama magic is <strike>fading</strike>gone.)
To: dayglored
“Win7 to be quite stable and secure. Sure, I run anti-virus and all tha”
I gave up on Windows after dealing with viruses. Switched to Mac and in two years have NEVER had a single problem with viruses or slow downs or anything. It seems like 20 years ahead of Microsoft.
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posted on
06/28/2010 8:14:20 PM PDT
by
garjog
To: dayglored
Among the other goals for Windows 8 are a "reset button" for use if - or more likely when - your PC begins to mysteriously slow down and performance begins to drag like a dog. Windows 8 will let you reset and retain your data...
Finally, some real innovation from Microsoft!
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posted on
06/28/2010 8:16:40 PM PDT
by
dr_who
To: Richard Kimball
Cool. Can you poke the tiger’s eyes out and smash its little head in with a rock?
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posted on
06/28/2010 8:18:39 PM PDT
by
dr_who
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