Secure ``poot'' farting on your freedom.
No more Start Menu, so anyone who was familiar with it since Windows 95/98/whatever has to learn a whole new UI.
Ribbon interface in more places, so anyone who kept Office 2003 or switched to Open/LibreOffice because they hate ribbon has no escape.
The GNOME/KDE UIs are more similar to Windows than Windows 8 is!
Writing programs ``apps'' in JavaScript/HTML.
One ``app'' at a time, because the rest of your cores will be used by bloated JavaScript VMs.
Making the desktop a secondary ``legacy'' interface, because nobody needs more than 640K one app at a time.
Designing your main UI for touch screens, because most desktops and laptops (the ``bread and butter'' of Windows) have touch screens, right?
Believing that supporting a touch screen means you need to gimp and dumb down your OS's features.
Removing the registry key that allows Metro to be disabled.
Turning a $1000 PC into a $100 phone, but without the ability to make phone calls.
Secure ``poot'' farting on your freedom.
Only an issue if you buy tablets or pre-builts. For the people who do buy that stuff, it is a good security feature.
Writing ``apps'' in JavaScript/HTML.
You can use Javascript (IE Chakra interpreter) to talk to WinRT. This is a good thing and hasn't been done seriously before.
One ``app'' at a time, because the rest of your cores will be used by bloated JavaScript VMs.
Not true at all.
Making the desktop a secondary ``legacy'' interface, because nobody needs more than 640K one app at a time.
Not true at all. You can run everything in desktop mode, only using Metro as a search/start menu.
Designing your main UI for touch screens, because most desktops and laptops (the ``bread and butter'' of Windows) have touch screens, right?
All the market research says touch is where the world is headed.
Believing that supporting a touch screen means you need to gimp and dumb down your OS's features.
Nope! Nothing is gimped, only new features added and past ones improved.
Removing the registry key that allows Metro to be disabled.
There are already numerous third party programs that re-implement the start menu.
>Turning a $1000 PC into a $100 phone, but without the ability to make phone calls.
You're an idiot.
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Anonymous2012-07-14 18:13
>>2 For the people who do buy that stuff, it is a good security feature.
Sure, if you trust Microsoft with anything. Closed-source? Fuck that.
All the market research says touch is where the world is headed.
Because the world is full of mouthbreathing facebook-using retards.
>>2 Javascript Ever a good thing
No son, you are the idiot.
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Anonymous2012-07-14 18:20
>>4
No, fag, you are the fucktard that's keeping the software industry in its dark ages.
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Anonymous2012-07-14 18:29
All the market research says touch is where the world is headed.
For those of us without a touch monitor, we're not headed there.
I'm using the "classic desktop setup" when it comes to my computer hardware. In the previous Windows editions, I turned off the sidebar because I never used it and didn't want it hanging around. I tend to turn off other dynamic UI effects for the same reason, in addition to distraction. Is there an option or key that I can set somewhere that turns off the touchscreen accessibility simplifications I do not need (or appreciate) but retain any Windows UI improvements related to desktop and file manipulation?
>>6 turns off the touchscreen accessibility simplifications I do not need (or appreciate) but retain any Windows UI improvements related to desktop and file manipulation
Why don't you modify the source and implement it yourself? oh wait
>>5
Compelling argument right there.
Everyone, stop the presses, the future is not parallel, it's touch, frills, whistles, and programmed in a subpar language with obvious (and known) deficiencies!
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Anonymous2012-07-14 19:10
>>8
To be fair, even if it was open-source, I probably wouldn't try to modify it anyway. It's easier to just dual boot Windows XP and whichever Linux distro suits my tastes.
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Anonymous2012-07-14 19:11
When someone tells you ``This is the direction the world is headed, trust us,'' what they really mean is ``This is the direction we will force the world to take, you better enjoy it or we'll send you to the gulags.''
ZOG wants to take computing out of the hands of the masses and replace it with dumb kiosks and mobile devices which manage the people, instead of people managing their own lives with the devices.
They fear the masses having access to computing when the hardware is powerful enough that you can simulate a dozen human brains, because then dissidents will be able to build AGIs that are cunning enough to combat ZOG autonomously.
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ZOG being "Zionist Occupation Government;" I'm not sure what AGI stands for in this context but the post is already retarded so it doesn't really matter.
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Anonymous2012-07-14 19:30
>>15
In Javascript, the only things that aren't considered objects are strings, numbers, and booleans, and they have wrappers (that can still be used as primitives) for that. It's entirely possible, using the prototype variable and middle-man functions, to build more proper OOP inheritance structures in Javascript.
The internal function typeof will always return either "object," "string," "number," "boolean," or "null" or "undefined."
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Anonymous2012-07-14 20:47
MS is trying to force their user base to use all laptops and tablets, this is the only way they are going to kill off XP and get people to follow their cycle of new OS's. Pretty much all laptops have to run its installed OEM OS as drivers wont support XP. By forcing a touchscreen UI they are trying to phase out desktops. MS is trying to get all people to use cloud apps as it is difficult to impossible to pirate these and forces the customer to constantly buy upgrades and licenses.
The nice thing about all this is that MS's userbase are stupid sheepals who lap up anything Balmer puts in front of them. MS users are getting what they deserve for being unquestioning loyal customers. The elite computer users will always have hardware on which to run their OS's and apps and will be further distanced from the idiot retards who make up MS's userbase.
>>20
MS's userbase consists of retards who don't care about their freedom or privacy. MS products for the most part happen to spy on their users and crash the rest of the time.
>>24
A product that spies on you and whose internal workings you cannot examine doesn't qualify as working.
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Anonymous2012-07-14 22:14
>>25
real hackers (which rms is not) dont need the source code. they can learn more about how a program works by looking at the machine code in a disassembler, the source is of no use to them. the fact that rms thinks the internals of a program are hidden shows that rms is a second rate programmer who can only copy source code