Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Mon May 27 01:01:08 CDT 2013
> I wouldn't generally consider the daughter of a programmer an ordinary user.. It happens... > But perhaps she's afraid to mention anything? ;) I don't think so, and nor she nor other members of my family have to use WinPhones ;) -- Shamil Sunday, May 26, 2013 3:16 PM -07:00 from Hans-Christian Andersen <hans.andersen at phulse.com>: >I wouldn't generally consider the daughter of a programmer an ordinary user... But perhaps she's afraid to mention anything? ;) > >- Hans > > >On 2013-05-26, at 2:42 PM, Salakhetdinov Shamil < mcp2004 at mail.ru > wrote: > >> Sorry, Hans, >> >> My daughter, who is working as a clerk/assistant in a large retail net here, is a kind of an ordinary users you probably mean: she has recently got a new laptop with Win8 and I haven't heard from her *any* complaints, and I haven't seen her being frustrated while working with Win8... >> >> Thank you. >> >> -- Shamil >> >> >> Sunday, May 26, 2013 2:33 PM -07:00 from Hans-Christian Andersen < hans.andersen at phulse.com >: >>> Maybe you've lost touch with ordinary users? We are talking about users whose only means of remembering keyboard shortcuts and passwords is if its written down on a post it note and stuck to their screen. They didn't ask for this change and its totally understandable that they are frustrated that it is forced upon them. >>> >>> To be honest, this is exactly what I expected to happen the minute i tried the win8 release candidate. If it was frustrating for even a tech person like myself, it was bound to be a disaster. >>> >>> - Hans >>> >>> >>> On 2013-05-26, at 12:05 PM, Salakhetdinov Shamil < mcp2004 at mail.ru > wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Jim -- >>>> >>>> I can understand folks who do not want to upgrade to Win8 because of inertia, luck of money, so many bad reviews posted everywhere on Win8 but I can't get what "feeling of frustration" forces folks getting Win8 preinstalled to make their systems downgraded to Win7, do you? >>>> >>>> I mean if they dislike/do not need to work in Win8 UI mode they can use [WindowsKey] + D to get into Windows classic desktop mode, put some frequently used programs short-cuts on desktop or just use [WindowsKey]+R to start programs by typing their executable file name /full path etc. - it's all very similar to Win7 ... >>>> >>>> -- Shamil >>>> <<< skipped >>> >