[dba-Tech] Windows 8: Not!

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? ;)
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>- Hans
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>On 2013-05-26, at 2:42 PM, Salakhetdinov Shamil < mcp2004 at mail.ru > wrote:
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>> Sorry, Hans,
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>> 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...
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>> Thank you.
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>> -- Shamil
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>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> - Hans
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>>> On 2013-05-26, at 12:05 PM, Salakhetdinov Shamil <  mcp2004 at mail.ru > wrote:
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>>>> Hi Jim --
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>>>> 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?
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>>>> 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
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