[AccessD] Windows 8

LOL - that’s change! Are you kidding me? <snicker>

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov Shamil
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 2:06 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Windows 8

 >  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.
>
>"Flipping off" a machine definitely does not work!  ;)  OTOH a hammer seems to work.
>
> >With some effort and learning curve I can enjoy all the advantages of W7.
>
>Well... in a word ... NO.
>
>Windows 8 did away with Windows.  We expect that the next version of 
>the operating system will be called Panes 9.  Or to the curmudgeonly  
>masses, PAINS 9.  ;)
>
>Panes of course are lobotomized windows.  They MUST run the full height 
>of the display.  They have no controls related to minimizing, or 
>adjusting the vertical size. In 8.0 they snapped to a fixed (by MS?) size if you tried to have more than one.
>
>So with Windows (Panes) 8, you were allowed TWO panes.  The horizontal 
>sizes appeared to be fixed, i.e. yes you could have them, but they 
>would be THIS EXACT WIDTH.  Which led to a tall narrow pane and whatever was left of the screen.  Why this is a good idea I will leave to the Fanbois to explain.
>
>With Windows (Panes) 8.1, they loosened up a bit and allowed more panes.  Home many more you ask? 
>Well... what is the resolution of your monitor?  It seems that the 
>number of horizontal pixels determines the number you can have.  I will 
>let a fanboi jump into this to explain how it works, since I decided if 
>I can't have Windows I am outa here.  But from what I remember, the 
>higher the
>(horizontal) resolution the larger the number of (full height) panes 
>you could have.  Why any of this is superior to actual Windows (on a desktop) I will leave to the Windows 8 Fanbois to explain.
>I assume it has to do with making your dual monitor desktop look and act like a windows phone. 
>Hmmmmm.....  (this wasn't MY idea!!!)
>
>Understand that I left the Windows (Panes / Pains) 8 scene about 30 
>minutes after downloading 8.1 and discovered that it seemed to suck as bad as the 8.0 version.
>
>I have to tell you that it was a scary moment taking my 1000 dollar 
>brand new laptop and doing a Windows 7 install on it.  HP had told me 
>essentially that they did not support Windows 7 on my new laptop, and 
>that I was on my own.  After the install it took probably a day of 
>researching chipset drivers and downloading them to get all of the 
>objects under device manager functioning.  But it worked.  I even have 
>touch enabled.  I then swapped out the shitty 5400 RPM notebook disk with a Samsung EVO 500gb drive and Wowza!!!  A quad core Intel I7 laptop with 8 gigs RAM, a moderately powerful video, and SSD running Windows 7.
>
>YES!!!
>
>Back to my mud hole, where I get actual work done.
>
>John W. Colby
>
>Reality is what refuses to go away
>when you do not believe in it
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