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nelz · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 1:37 am Post subject:

The same reason I chose a tablet with a keyboard. My first two Android phones, and their predecessor, had physical keyboards, although I now have one with only a soft keyboard. But I don't type that much on my phone and SwiftKey has excellent completion.
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guy · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:55 pm Post subject:

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bpalone · Joined: Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:17 am Posts: 3

I think that everyone is missing something here with Windows 8. Whatever it is that they call their touchy feely interface, don't forget that they also announced a "STORE" to go along with that, as per the Apple App Store. I think that by Windows 10 or 11 it will be a totally closed system, just like Apple, the only difference being that they will be letting the hardware vendors build and sell the hardware. But, and it will be a big but, the only software that will run on it will either come from M$ or through them via their store front.

We have already seen the beginning of this with the secure boot issue. I may just be paranoid, but they are motivated by dollars and if they find a way to milk even more money from the "appliance" user crowd, they will more than willingly bind everyone's hands and feet.

I'll get off the soap box now.

wyliecoyoteuk · Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 10:22 am Post subject:

I've noticed a few fanboys trying to defend W8 on other forums, some to extent of writing howtos, which is missing the point really.
a) If a modern OS needs a howto for what should be simple operations, it is rubbish.
b) No number of howtos is going to address the fairly obvious design flaws.
c)Windows has been getting less usable since W2K
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guy · Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 12:31 pm Post subject:

wyliecoyoteuk · Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 2:15 pm Post subject:

lol

Maybe I should have qualified that as "If a modern OS designed for business use".
Essentially, one guy has written several pages on how to make win8 look like win7, but he doesn't realise that will simply put users off. Wink

Classic shell is the answer.
http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/features.html
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towy71 · Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 3:19 pm Post subject:

I hear that it doesn't play DVDs without buying in some other software, is that true??
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wyliecoyoteuk · Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 7:51 pm Post subject:

yup, unless you buy the most expensive ultra edition, nor will it handle DVBTV. But then again, they have increased the number of codecs natively supported.
Apparently Media centre is now a paid for add on.
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Nuke · Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 11:59 pm Post subject: Howtos

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Nuke · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 10:02 am Post subject: Forking Windows