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Comment Re:10% day 1 fail rate nothing to boast about (Score 1) 675

So in that 10% are folk that failed to work out how to get the login prompt from the completely control free boot page. And people who failed to shutdown their PC making up the bulk of it - since that needs the charmless bar.

Please show where the article states what you have claimed.

Comment Re:He admits he's not using a tablet!!! (Score 1) 740

Are you saying that one can't use keyboard shortcuts in Windows 8.

Really, you seem to be making a moutain out of a mole hill. My monitors aren't even 24 inches away from me and my laptop screen is less than 10 inches from my hands.

And, as near as I can tell, Windows 8 is geared towards touchscreen devices, specifically tablets and laptops. We all have seen the slow death of the desktop computer, culminating with the all-in-one, which is effectively a deskbound laptop.

Comment Re:Clearly Phillip Greenspun didn't try very hard (Score 1) 740

Yeah, I have seen Ubuntu lately. In fact, I am typing this using my laptop running Debian with WindowMaker. Yes, this is the same laptop I was running the Win8 pre-release on. It doesn't have a touch screen so wasn't very good with Win8

Linux was copying Windows, and denying it, back when GNOME and KDE first came out and they are still doing it. Have you tried shutting down a computer with Windows 8 on it? It isn't much harder. It is like one or two more clicks.

Comment Re:Clearly Phillip Greenspun didn't try very hard (Score 1) 740

Mouse version of shutting down Windows 8: "Okay, mom, move your mouse over to the left side of the screen. Click the word Settings. Now click the power symbol. Yes, the circle with a line, just like on your electric blanket. Click that. Good. Yes, you want to click the "shut down" button."

The touch version isn't much different.

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