[AccessD] Windows 8

The tale is in the numbers.

7 is the perfect number. 8 a crazy one, Google eyes at a 90 degree angle. 9
may be a universal number but trying to be all things to all people has
never worked.

Windows could have stopped at 7. I think Big Business and government will
conspire to leave MS in droves, and for good too, if MS "forces" them to
upgrade through dropping support for Win 7.

Win 8 is too radical a departure from what people want on the desktop, and
not (arguably) beneficial the way the ribbon was (a learning curve but some
benefit at the end of the discovery/learning curve). Win 8 offers no
benefit to users except change for change's sake. It was like putting a
bidet next to a sink so people who like to read on the toilet will want to
read in the kitchen (yes that makes no sense as an analogy and therefore
marvelously appropo).

I tried it and hated it, pure gilded crap.
On Mar 4, 2014 5:34 PM, "John W Colby" <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:

> >>>They're just horizontally sliding windows now ;-)
>
> No they are NOT.  A window has horizontal and VERTICAL handles for
> adjustment.  Panes are ALWAYS full height.  A window can be positioned
> anywhere on the screen.  A Pane is always docked to one side or the other,
> or to the pane next to it.
>
> A Pane is a lobotomized window with no variable vertical dimension and no
> ability to place it where I want.
>
> It is "Immersive"  LOL.  Which means MS has "Immersed" YOU in their
> bullshit until you forget what you used to have, ignore the reality and
> believe it is "better".
>
> Not having gone through the pain of drowning in the MS bullshit and
> accepting whatever it is they want me to believe, I have become... a
> Luddite curmudgeon Windows 7 fanbois.
>
> Oh well... I'll have to live with that I guess.  ;)
>
> John W. Colby
>
> Reality is what refuses to go away
> when you do not believe in it
>
> On 3/4/2014 3:09 PM, John Bartow wrote:
>
>> They're just horizontally sliding windows now ;-)
>>
>>
>
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