Windows 8

[Seawolf]

Well, far be it from me to consider your reasons silly, isn't it

kiddin. I wonder if it'll change the pricing for anyone aside from OEMs.

Also not much point being mad about it when we don't even know what the extra cost will be.

[impar]

Greetings!

Redesigning chkdsk and the new NTFS health model

Mozilla not happy with Windows 8 ARM restrictions

[Seawolf]

Haha I was just trying to post that first one.

[Seawolf]

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012 ... -apps.aspx

Let me start by explaining what we mean by confidence. Picture a customer browsing the Windows Store looking at a Metro style app; we want them to be thinking only about the app and whether or not it is right for them. We want them to assume—in fact be confident—that the app will behave the way they expect and thus will perform well on their system, will use only the data and information they authorize, and will harmoniously co-exist with their other applications.

Not terribly interesting overall, but I'll be using the store at some point I'm sure.

[impar]

Greetings!

Have no interest on apps that harvest or share data to whatever use without my full understanding of the mechanics behind that behaviour, the justification for doing it, or consent.
The entire "contracts" part of the metro apps is suspicious.

[Seawolf]

That's suspicious because what, you'd rather apps have uncontrolled access to your system?

[powerarmour]

Aero removed...

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/18/micr ... esktop-ui/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012 ... ience.aspx

[thegrommit]

Aero removed...

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/18/micr ... esktop-ui/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012 ... ience.aspx

About bloody time. From the looks of the msdn screenshot, they're finally returning an easy of differentiating between the in-focus vs "background" window by shading the title bar.

[impar]

Greetings!

Disabled Aero a long time ago.
I find interesting, though, that it was the Aero removal that made Paul Thurrott finally getting to the logical conclusion about Windows 8:

http://www.winsupersite.com/article/win ... 012-143133
...
That brings me back to my central complaint about Windows 8 generally and Metro specifically: This is a neat thing that Microsoft’s building, it really is. But it should have occurred in something outside of Windows. (It should have been just Windows RT, minus the desktop.) Windows 8 isn’t even Windows anymore. It’s a tablet OS that’s been grafted onto Windows like a monstrous Frankenstein experiment.
...

As for the long Windows 8 blog post, I was reading it and thinking they were forcing the conclusion.

[powerarmour]

About bloody time. From the looks of the msdn screenshot, they're finally returning an easy of differentiating between the in-focus vs "background" window by shading the title bar.

I think mainly (as mentioned in the blog Impar just linked) it had performance/battery issues in Win8 also, and quite a few unusual glitches which is probably another reason why they decided to ditch it (would obviously help on the lower powered ARM tablets).

Didn't mind using it in Vista & Win7, it was speedy enough (thanks to GPU acceleration) and gave it more of a modern/polished look over XP (and vsync'd too, so no tearing), I quite like transparency effects in general, and it's certainly not cheesy if it makes the desktop look better. But Win8 hasn't got the aesthetics right yet I feel, still far too 'Fisher-Price' with Metro and generally basic/flat.

Taking backwards steps to go forward I guess...