[dba-Tech] Windows 8: Not!

Hans-Christian Andersen hans.andersen at phulse.com
Mon May 27 03:19:36 CDT 2013


Having magic corners is also antithetical to a GUI. I'm sure I'm not the first person for you to have heard this from. It's one of the main complaints about Windows 8 across the internet.

- Hans



On 2013-05-27, at 12:45 AM, Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru> wrote:

> Well, you can still use just point and click if you wish:
> 
> - move mouse cursor to the top-left corner while in Win8 GUI mode - minimized desktop box will appear - click on it to get into Win classic desktop mode;
> - move mouse cursor to the bottom-left corner while in Win classic GUI desktop mode - minimized Win 8 Start desktop will appear - click on it to get into Win 8 Start desktop.
> 
> Still, try to teach your users to use hot-keys as they have been used by MS WIndows power-users from the very first MS Windows versions - tell them that hotkeys will make them working much quicker with MS Windows, and the one who gets the ability to freely work with MS Windows by using hot-keys gets into higher users league - power-users...
> 
> -- Shamil 
> 
> Monday, May 27, 2013 12:30 AM -07:00 from Hans-Christian Andersen <hans.andersen at phulse.com>:
>> This is antithetical to a GUI (graphical user interface). I really don't see any difference between this and enter commands into a text based interface?
>> 
>> Isn't this a fundamental problem?
>> 
>> - Hans
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 2013-05-27, at 12:20 AM, Salakhetdinov Shamil < mcp2004 at mail.ru > wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Stuart --
>>> 
>>> I'd propose your users to learn just three hot-keys for starters:
>>> 
>>> - [WindowsKey] + [D] - get to MS Windows classic desktop;
>>> - [CTRL]+[ESC] - get to Win8 'Start' screen/channels;
>>> - [WindowsKey]  + [Tab] - switch between Win8 active channels.
>>> 
>>> as well as continue to use point and click.
>>> 
>>> If they will afford that learning curve then they can get more hot-keys learned from provided links and/or your assistance.
>>> If not - they can use just [WindowsKey] + D to get to Windows classic desktop and then use mouse point and click for program icons short-cuts you can get placed on their desktops.
>>> 
>>> -- Shamil
>>> 
>>> Monday, May 27, 2013 4:50 PM +10:00 from "Stuart McLachlan" < stuart at lexacorp.com.pg >:
>>>> My average users has enough difficulty with point and click. 
>>>> 
>>>> There's no way they are going to use "30 Hotkeys", "50 or 100 keyboard shortcuts" or "touch 
>>>> and mouse gestures".
>>>> 
>>>> Most of them still don't get the notion of a context sensitve right click menu.  (and they have 
>>>> no idea what that little wheel does)   :-(
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> Stuart
>>>>  
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