John W Colby
jwcolby at gmail.com
Fri Feb 28 01:34:27 CST 2014
Jim, In re-reading your post it occurred to me that my problem with Windows 8 is PRECISELY that, Microsoft tried to turn it into an application, where you spend time in WINDOWS arranging things in pretty screen slices and watching face book drift past, but WINDOWS and it's little applets are the show. WINDOWS search opens IE and BING and serves up a delectible array of search results (and advertisements). Windows 7 really has no FE per se. It is simply a framework for third party apps to run. Yea, it has Windows Explorer to go find files and move them around but that is just a 1% slice of your day. MS wants you to spend 80% of your time in Windows (as an FE) where they can dish up pretty stuff (and advertisements) to you all day long. And buy things in Windows store where they can charge you that 30% markup. That is after all where 99% of tablets and their users spend their time right? Sounds like a much healthier profit center for Windows. Google is in charge of Android, and the Google store, and Google search and rakes in all the profits from ads in those search streams. Bing is and has always been a non-contender. But if we can lasso users to sit and stare at pages of tiles with pretty changing pictures and flash up subliminal advertisements (putting on my tin foil hat here), and default to the BING search engine for moving around the internet, we can start raking in some of that loot. And if we get in the way of real work... well that is the price of doing business eh? And... another opportunity to serve you up a very relevant advertisement. from one of the UI designers: http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-8-ux-designer-on-metro-it-is-the-antithesis-of-a-power-user >>>Windows 8 was designed for the latter group: the content consumers. This is also where Metro stems from: it is a platform that is "simple, clear, and does one thing (and only one thing) relatively easily." Miller described Metro as/the antithesis of a power user/. So does it really sound like it's time for me to re-install Windows 8? ;) Maybe it's time for y'all to reinstall Windows 7? ;) John W. Colby Reality is what refuses to go away when you do not believe in it On 2/28/2014 12:34 AM, Jim Lawrence wrote: > Hi All: > > The truth of the matter is that OS FEs are history. Anyone with a little bit of effort can make own front end via the browser; HTML, CSS, JavaScripts, libraries and so on. If you are so inclined the browser interface could be made to look like a Windows8.x or any other interface...It is all limited by your imagination. > > Companies like Save-On-Foods, Rona and Walmart just run a browser front end to their invoicing applications (cashiers work stations). They could be setup for any type of application, whether it is just a single station, a network or a full or partial internet set of apps. It is great when the systems support guy can broadcast an application to any station on the network and can change the UI depending on any policy deemed appropriate per group or per individual. > > This concept can be made to over-ride the standard licensing of per station or per of user and that is why there is so much blow-back to this type of implementation. Also there is no limits on the type of applications and what OS that can be run...as long as there is an full-link whether UNC or HTML...the applications and data can be stored locally, anywhere on the network, anywhere on the internet or in the Cloud (local or remote) (...and of course whether your station is physically capable of performing the task). > > All a station needs is to have is the ability to connect via a variety of standard protocols. > > In summary, our new powerful browsers are in the process of making our desktops irrelevant, IMHO. > > Aside: Some ambitious soul could build a Windows8.x interface and fix it. ;-) > > Jim > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk> > To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 1:55:23 PM > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Ramblings of a nutcase > > Hi John > > I can't recall anything else than that it has always been there: > > http://www.windows.sky-software.com/articles/windows_8_taskbar.htm > > Time for a reinstall?? > > /gustav > --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com