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    • momurdaM
      momurda @scottalanmiller
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      @scottalanmiller Ah yes i forgot about the 8 clicks to get to Shutdown or Restart on 8/8.1.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        The Doorway Effect is well known and studied. It's basic psychology and super basic GUI design. That MS got this wrong is.... unthinkable. To the point that one has to wonder if making the system less usable wasn't the goal. How could MS have known so little about psychology and GUIs to not have done this intentionally?

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @momurda
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          @momurda said in Windows NT Release History:

          @scottalanmiller Ah yes i forgot about the 8 clicks to get to Shutdown or Restart on 8/8.1.

          That, too. Everything was so painfully inefficient.

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          • JaredBuschJ
            JaredBusch @momurda
            last edited by JaredBusch

            @momurda said in Windows NT Release History:

            @scottalanmiller Ah yes i forgot about the 8 clicks to get to Shutdown or Restart on 8/8.1.

            Nope.
            Right click on the Start button. It is right there.

            Edit: Logoff was not on the start button until Server 2012 R2 and Windows 10. But shutdown and reboot always were.

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            • black3dynamiteB
              black3dynamite @momurda
              last edited by black3dynamite

              @momurda said in Windows NT Release History:

              @scottalanmiller Ah yes i forgot about the 8 clicks to get to Shutdown or Restart on 8/8.1.

              It's been a while but didn't Windows key + x options like shutdown? Plus you can always do ctrl+alt+delete. Yes, I'm a fan of using a keyboard/commands to get around Windows.

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              • JaredBuschJ
                JaredBusch @black3dynamite
                last edited by JaredBusch

                @black3dynamite said in Windows NT Release History:

                @momurda said in Windows NT Release History:

                @scottalanmiller Ah yes i forgot about the 8 clicks to get to Shutdown or Restart on 8/8.1.

                It's been a while but didn't Windows key + x options like shutdown? Plus you can always do ctrl+alt+delete. Yes, I'm a fan of using a keyboard/commands to get around Windows.

                Even without that, the GUI had built in quick ways. People just like to bitch.

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                • KellyK
                  Kelly @JaredBusch
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                  @jaredbusch said in Windows NT Release History:

                  @black3dynamite said in Windows NT Release History:

                  @momurda said in Windows NT Release History:

                  @scottalanmiller Ah yes i forgot about the 8 clicks to get to Shutdown or Restart on 8/8.1.

                  It's been a while but didn't Windows key + x options like shutdown? Plus you can always do ctrl+alt+delete. Yes, I'm a fan of using a keyboard/commands to get around Windows.

                  Even without that, the GUI had built in quick ways. People just like to bitch.

                  8, on release, without a touchscreen, was difficult to locate, and did take a number of actions to get to. They did address it pretty quickly though, and it wasn't that hard in 8.1.

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                  • JaredBuschJ
                    JaredBusch @Kelly
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                    @kelly said in Windows NT Release History:

                    @jaredbusch said in Windows NT Release History:

                    @black3dynamite said in Windows NT Release History:

                    @momurda said in Windows NT Release History:

                    @scottalanmiller Ah yes i forgot about the 8 clicks to get to Shutdown or Restart on 8/8.1.

                    It's been a while but didn't Windows key + x options like shutdown? Plus you can always do ctrl+alt+delete. Yes, I'm a fan of using a keyboard/commands to get around Windows.

                    Even without that, the GUI had built in quick ways. People just like to bitch.

                    8, on release, without a touchscreen, was difficult to locate, and did take a number of actions to get to. They did address it pretty quickly though, and it wasn't that hard in 8.1.

                    It sucked to mouse over to get the fly out start button, true, but the actions were always there.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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                      @jaredbusch said in Windows NT Release History:

                      @kelly said in Windows NT Release History:

                      @jaredbusch said in Windows NT Release History:

                      @black3dynamite said in Windows NT Release History:

                      @momurda said in Windows NT Release History:

                      @scottalanmiller Ah yes i forgot about the 8 clicks to get to Shutdown or Restart on 8/8.1.

                      It's been a while but didn't Windows key + x options like shutdown? Plus you can always do ctrl+alt+delete. Yes, I'm a fan of using a keyboard/commands to get around Windows.

                      Even without that, the GUI had built in quick ways. People just like to bitch.

                      8, on release, without a touchscreen, was difficult to locate, and did take a number of actions to get to. They did address it pretty quickly though, and it wasn't that hard in 8.1.

                      It sucked to mouse over to get the fly out start button, true, but the actions were always there.

                      Especially when it was just a few pixels big.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
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                        Updated with 1809

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller
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                          Updated with 1903

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