Windows 8.1.update 2?
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That would be awesome and totally break all of my predictions. But I'm still leary of believing that Microsoft will backtrack on their past decisions like that. Except that Balmer was pushed out and the new CEO seems to have a clue and actually care about the future of Microsoft and its products. With the benefit of being able to pin all blame for past foolishness on Balmer, maybe the new CEO can admit corporate fault, blame Balmer and move on with a better product and not losing face.
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This is fine, except everyone I know in the corporate world would remove 100% of the Metro apps from it... and there needs to be a way to return the control panel the start menu.
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@Dashrender right click "start button" and control panel is in the middle.
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@technobabble said:
@Dashrender right click "start button" and control panel is in the middle.
Cool, didn't realize that. Just tried it, super handy.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@technobabble said:
@Dashrender right click "start button" and control panel is in the middle.
Cool, didn't realize that. Just tried it, super handy.
Pretty much all of that except shutdown has been there since 8.0. You can replace command prompt with powershell as an option by hitting the properties after right clicking on the taskbar.
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@Dashrender said:
This is fine, except everyone I know in the corporate world would remove 100% of the Metro apps from it... and there needs to be a way to return the control panel the start menu.
True, I'm surprised that Scott didn't know about that trick... but the normal user still doesn't use right click today. Like the search feature on the start screen - if it's not in your face normal consumers won't know where to find it and will often move on to something else instead (a different device/OS) of trying to solve their problem.
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@Dashrender said:
@Dashrender said:
This is fine, except everyone I know in the corporate world would remove 100% of the Metro apps from it... and there needs to be a way to return the control panel the start menu.
True, I'm surprised that Scott didn't know about that trick... but the normal user still doesn't use right click today. Like the search feature on the start screen - if it's not in your face normal consumers won't know where to find it and will often move on to something else instead (a different device/OS) of trying to solve their problem.
Well for general users a lot of them did not even know they could search directly from the start menu in Windows Vista and 7 either. and that WAS right in your face when you clicked on the start menu.
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And the search actually worked back then. It wasn't until 8 that it was broken.
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@scottalanmiller in 8 you clicking on start screen and started typing for search. However before 8.1 it was split into categories like apps/settings etc.
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@technobabble said:
@scottalanmiller in 8 you clicking on start screen and started typing for search. However before 8.1 it was split into categories like apps/settings etc.
Yeah 8 was awful. It was so painful to find anything.
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@scottalanmiller I would have thought that MS actually had normal people to tell them if the user experience is good, not just those who drink the koolaid.
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@technobabble said:
@scottalanmiller I would have thought that MS actually had normal people to tell them if the user experience is good, not just those who drink the koolaid.
It was still the Balmer era when that was designed.
