[AccessD] Windows 8

Hey!  I like my Windows Phone! (Nokia Lumia 521 - $100)

Well - let's see what's in Windows 9 ...

Dan

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W Colby
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 2:41 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Windows 8


    Definition of/LUDDITE/

*:*  one of a group of early 19th century English workmen destroying
laborsaving machinery as a
protest;/broadly/*:* one who is opposed to especially technological change

Explain to me please how Windows 8 is a "labor saving machinery". And I work
every day in a field where technological change happens around me and I use
and adapt to it.  WHEN AND WHERE IT WORKS FOR ME.  Windows 8 is not the
first, nor will it be the last "improvement" that doesn't work for me and I
will not use.

Windows 8 desktop mode is NOT what I was after.  I worked with Pains 8.0 for
two months.  I worked in the "desktop". It sucked the whole time.  It never
got better.  It was so annoying that when I had to get work done I switched
to my old Wndows 7 computer.  I had a brand new thousand dollar POWERFUL
laptop intentionally crippled to look like a damned Windows phone.

Windows 8 desktop is a lobotomized Windows 7.  Intentionally crippled.  I am
happy you like it but that does not make it "labor saving" nor does it make
ME a Luddite, a curmudgeon, or a fanbois of Windows 7.

Go out and read the reviews for crying out loud.  They all say essentially
"If you like Windows 7, stay far far away from Windows 8", which pretty much
sums it up.  When it was time to buy a laptop I was not offered a choice of
Windows 7 or Windows 8.  I received Windows 8, and struggled for TWO DAMNED
MONTHS.  I hated my new laptop.  I do not do social, I have no need for
"Immersive" full screen calculators.  I have no need or desire for "active
tiles" feeding me ever changing content.  
Or for that matter "immersive" full screen browsers, text editors or
anything else. I have no use for Panes as opposed to Windows.  They are not
better, they are AT MOST different, and in many cases for many purposes
WORSE than real windows.  But, as with the rest of the "modern UI
'improvements'", We are not given a choice.  Suck it up and adapt.  Why?

"Improvements" are supposed to make things better, solve a problem.    You
do understand that the 
ENTIRE OBJECTIVE of Windows 8 is to make a unified UI that will work on the
desktop, tablet and phone.  They did in fact accomplish that.

Of course "worked" is a relative term.  The desktop does in fact still
"work".  It just doesn't "work" as well, depending on the feature set of
Windows 7 that you used previously.  The problem they solved was to make
Windows work on a phone / tablet and desktop.  That is not a problem that I
need solved, and the changes that they made to "solve" a problem I didn't
need solved made Windows 8 a PITA.

I simply have no need for or use for the "improvements" which turned my
laptop into a phone / tablet.  I have no intention of EVER using a Windows
phone, or tablet.  And the "Modern UI" that I am left with in Windows 8 is
seriously less capable (for me) than what it replaced.  That is, simply put,
a Win (for MS) / Lose (for me) situation.

Your calling me a Luddite doesn't change that reality.

John W. Colby

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 3/4/2014 3:05 PM, Salakhetdinov Shamil wrote:
>   >  I have to tell you that it was a scary moment...
> "Luddite moment"? ;)
>
> You could have just used to use [WindowKey] + [D] to get switched into
Win8.x desktop mode...
>
> -- Shamil
>
> Tuesday, March  4, 2014 2:20 PM -05:00 from John W Colby
<jwcolby at gmail.com>:
>>> OK, I learned a lot from that vid and I'm convinced - for me W8 is 
>>> totally useless. None of my
>> gestures have any effect on my machines.
>>



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