Tydda Jon - Slough
jon.tydda at lonza.com
Tue Jun 11 04:15:35 CDT 2013
Arthur No need to reformat. Get yourself a copy of Classic Shell, and set it up how you want it. At least until SP1 is released, when they're going to give you the option to boot to desktop, and to have a start menu again. Jon -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 9:53 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Skeuomorphic UIs are dead? Apple to follow MS Win8 UI design principles with iOS7? At the moment I have here a friend's new Dell laptop with Win8 installed, and I guess it was a good idea to retire, because I find this UI the most balling and frustrating experience of my life. So does my friend, who owns this new laptop. She's asked me to reformat it and convert it back to Windows 7. At first I was dubious about this move, but after the last few days, I'm beginning to think that she is right. AFAICS, the whole concept behind this OS is asinine. As for tablets, Android on an Acer or Nexus 7 is lovely. On my trusty aging desktop, I have no plans to change anything, other than apply the usual Tuesday patches from MS. Sometimes I wish that I still had a DOS box and Clipper. That was a comfortable environment! On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 4:15 AM, Hans-Christian Andersen < hans.andersen at phulse.com> wrote: > I think you are disregarding the fact that Metro has been a failure > for Microsoft, because it was too much of a change for users to adapt to. > Someone got fired for that, if you recall. > > Also, the UI/UX of iOS is in the complete control of a designer. > > The jury is still very much out - even more so than ever. > > - Hans > > > On 2013-06-11, at 1:05 AM, "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote: > > > Hi Shamil > > > > Skeuomorphism sure looks dead. And thanks for that. > > > > After the introduction of Metro/Modern UI, I was convinced that in a > > few > years skeuomorphism would be so much yesterday. > > The new design of iOS settles this. > > > > Now the Linux people are the left behinds ... > > > > /gustav > > > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > > Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto: > dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Salakhetdinov > Shamil > > Sendt: 11. juni 2013 08:54 > > Til: Discussion of Hardware and Softw > > Emne: [dba-Tech] Skeuomorphic UIs are dead? Apple to follow MS Win8 > > UI > design principles with iOS7? > > > > > > Hi All -- > > > > See subj questions and the following links: > > > > http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/10/apple-ios-7/ > > > > > http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/10/take-a-good-look-at-apples-new-ios-7- > with-these-early-screenshots/ > > > > > http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/10/apples-flashlight-is-why-we-cant-fund > -nice-dumb-things/ > > > > etc. > > > > it looks like iOS7 is preparing for iOS8 to get running > > transparently on > "Apple Pince-nez"?... > > > > > > -- > > Салахетдинов Шамиль > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Arthur Cell: 647.710.1314 Prediction is difficult, especially of the future. -- Niels Bohr _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com This communication and its attachments, if any, may contain confidential and privileged information the use of which by other persons or entities than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this transmission in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from your system.