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yg17 said:
What is Windows lacking in terms of multi display setups? I have a dual monitor setup at work (with XP) and everything works great. I'm wondering what I'm possibly missing out on.
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To be fair it's mainly wallpaper issues, such as having different wallpapers on different monitors or stretching one across many displays with the correct positioning. It's probably also got something to do with the fact that my 2 displays are different sizes, and when waking my laptop from sleep or booting up I find icons have moved around, windows have changed to awkward sizes and moved. It's nothing critical, it would just be nice to get that sort of thing polished a bit more.
 
I would say Windows handles multi monitors much better than OS X. Previously when you had the menu bar on primary monitor and application windows on secondary monitor, you had to move the mouse to the primary monitor every time you want to do something. Now with Lion, when you full screen something, the rest of the monitors are useless.

Windows also provides handy keyboard shortcuts for Window management such as Shift + WinKey + Left/Left will move the window around various monitors etc.
 
I'm hearing some people have been using pre-beta, alpha Windows 8 as their primary OS. Is it that stable? Then again, it is NT 6.2
 
There's absolutely nothing wrong with the ribbon.

It's just like people bitching about Lion.

The fact is they're both just different and some people dont like to learn new things. I respect and celebrate that we all have our preferences.

But instead of just saying you don't care for it, people have to get angry, aggressive, and bad mouth it.

As Apple fanboys love to say when the shoe is on the other foot "just don't buy it".
 
ct2k7 said:
I'm hearing some people have been using pre-beta, alpha Windows 8 as their primary OS. Is it that stable? Then again, it is NT 6.2
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MyDigitalLife is a place where many people are running Win8.
They claim its more stable than Win7 and faster too, but they are still on early builds without a lot of the cool new features.
 
TheSideshow said:
MyDigitalLife is a place where many people are running Win8.
They claim its more stable than Win7 and faster too, but they are still on early builds without a lot of the cool new features.
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Well, MS Staff are using it :eek:

PS, I'm a member of both MDL and BetaArchive.
 
Synofsky in the Ribbon

"There was a lot of back and forth over the role of the mechanism for different customers—is it advanced or beginner targeted? There’s irony here in that menus were once for beginners (the keyboard was what power users used), which then were simplified with toolbars. Context menus were originally shortcuts for advanced users, but ended up being used more by everyone. Now we are hearing (and seeing) that menus and toolbars are being touted for advanced users. Of course, we have been trying to unify these disparate mechanisms in an effort to have a simpler experience—fewer mechanisms means less UI surface area, by definition. While there are a lot of opinions, the one thing we know is that the satisfaction with our products that use the ribbon is much higher and the usage much broader and deeper. We also know a very small set of people remain unhappy. That was true in versions before the introduction of the Ribbon mechanism, though obviously for different reasons. It might be the case that no matter what we do, there will be a small set of people that are not satisfied?"

"We share the goal in having a clean user experience. We also have the goal of making sure people can get done the things they do want to get done. The role of data here is important when used correctly and it also helps us to avoid the use of small data sets or anecdotes driving the choices."

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/02/reflecting-on-our-first-conversations-part-2.aspx
 
TheSideshow said:
"There was a lot of back and forth over the role of the mechanism for different customers—is it advanced or beginner targeted? There’s irony here in that menus were once for beginners (the keyboard was what power users used), which then were simplified with toolbars. Context menus were originally shortcuts for advanced users, but ended up being used more by everyone. Now we are hearing (and seeing) that menus and toolbars are being touted for advanced users. Of course, we have been trying to unify these disparate mechanisms in an effort to have a simpler experience—fewer mechanisms means less UI surface area, by definition. While there are a lot of opinions, the one thing we know is that the satisfaction with our products that use the ribbon is much higher and the usage much broader and deeper. We also know a very small set of people remain unhappy. That was true in versions before the introduction of the Ribbon mechanism, though obviously for different reasons. It might be the case that no matter what we do, there will be a small set of people that are not satisfied?"

"We share the goal in having a clean user experience. We also have the goal of making sure people can get done the things they do want to get done. The role of data here is important when used correctly and it also helps us to avoid the use of small data sets or anecdotes driving the choices."

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/02/reflecting-on-our-first-conversations-part-2.aspx
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I have nothing against change when it improves the user experience, but I find that the ribbon layout itself is not as intuitive as Microsoft thinks it is.
 
yg17 said:
What is Windows lacking in terms of multi display setups? I have a dual monitor setup at work (with XP) and everything works great. I'm wondering what I'm possibly missing out on.
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Exactly. I use a dual monitor setup at work with Windows 7 and it works beautifully. Yeah it "just works".
 
I love W7... Office 2010 is quite nice too.. I have used XP before with Office 2003 and have not had any dramas with switching over.. Quite like it.

And.. I have to say that I am excited about W8.. What little I've seen looked nice.

Just because I like Mac.. doesn't mean I have to hate MS...

Call me silly.. they both have place in my life... And I type with two fingers :D

It is beyond me how some of you tech-wiz-genius-know-it-all-geek-masters can think that only one or the other is all you need...

Then again... each to their own...

Bring it on MS.. papa's waiting :D
 
I've been using Windows 98 recently, and I do feel that they got the Explorer design spot on then. It's simple, all the commonly used tools on the toolbar, everything else in the menus. A nice info bar on the left of the window.

I'm not sure what they did after 98 which has sent design of Explorer down a road of rubbishness, but at that moment in time, I feel Microsoft got it right.
 

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windows2000 was overall the best windows OS ever
but maybe someone tells Apple and microsoft that sometimes less is more ;)
but i use windows7 just now and i prefere it over snow leopard , was unintentional , but work needed windows

but i just dont understand why all New Operating Systems need to be cluttered up with unnecessary eye candy and every " improvement" brings even more of that flashy eye candy ..actually why i like Linux as there i can choose the GUI i like ..ok my ubuntu looks like OSX tiger that would even fool steve , even the :apple: is there
but maybe i am to old to understand that and thats why i now fire up my PPC Mac's with OS9.2.2 and OSX Tiger and 1 with MorphOS :p
 
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I definitely prefer Windows 7 UI over any previous one. Windows 8 looks like it's going to be even more awesomeness!
 
Right now, I think we'll see three different versions of Windows 8:

1) Home--your choice of either Windows 7 UI or the new "Metro" UI.

2) Professional--Windows 7 UI only, but with the other software changes found in Windows 8 and better security controls for business environments.

3) Tablet--"Metro" UI only, designed specifically for tablet computers.
 
I think they said that Metro will be included in most if not all SKUs, but also, it won't have a separate version.
 
ct2k7 said:
I think they said that Metro will be included in most if not all SKUs, but also, it won't have a separate version.
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Agreed and based on what I read, you can disable the UI. I'm looking forward to win8 for a desktop OS, so I'm not sold that it would work well (on the desktop)
 
Looks like everyone is going to get a flavor that will suit them for the form factor. Personally I will want the "Professional" edition.
 
I heard one sku. But i'm thinking there will be the regular and the pro version with metro able to be disabled.
 
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