Really? I think the Windows 7 Start Menu is a considerable improvement over XP. I'll admit I was sceptical at first, but now I find that whenever I'm stuck on an XP box I really miss it.
I'm sure I'll get used to most of Windows 8's new conventions too, but as it stands I'm still not convinced that they're all a good idea - especially this idea of having to have both Metro and Regular versions of half your programs.
I completely agree. The Windows 7 start menu is perfect. Everything you need to do is right there either a click away, or a little bit of typing away. It's what the start menu should have always been. To me, it's so much nicer than XP's start menu that I feel like I've gone back to WFW 3.1 when I sit at an XP machine these days.
However, I've been kicking Windows 8 around since public release. While it performs decently, it is very cumbersome, awkward and unnatural to use on a desktop. I can see it will absolutely ROCK the touch screen world, but with the vast majority of desktops not having touch hardware... it's pointless to force it on those particular users.
I mostly use Linux these days anyhow, so this won't really affect me and it also means I will not be purchasing Windows 8 when it is officially released. Give that they have added another 4 flavors to their release cycle, that kills interest for me even more. Then you don't even NEED to ask about price. I am sure any "Ultimate" version (which I always have to have, just my choice) will cost close to $400 in a terrible economy and either increase piracy of their product or just force people to pay a bigger up-front cost for a Mac to get the cheaper (and usually free?) OS updates to save money in the long run.
I'll never go with an Apple product, but I will be damned if I buy Windows 8.
You want flies with that?
They are talking about spiders, not Chinese restaurant order takers.
It is "bald-faced", not "bold-faced". You're just as wrong as he is.
That would mean you have a bald face. A bald face is what? We don't consider men (or some women) "bald" when they are lacking facial hair. We consider them barefaced.
Seriously... BOLD-FACED meaning that you show no emotion or no hint of a lie when you speak that untruth. In either case, both are technically wrong... but "bald-faced" just sounds completely stupid. It should be "barefaced" lie if you really want to be absolute. But if you want to NOT sound like an idiot, bold-faced is better.
better not have the same SHIT DRM that the last game had.
You speak as though Ubisoft are able to learn their lesson.
If you're bringing people over from the Windows world, please encourage KDE. It's a pretty good take on the "taskbar w/ a start button" GUI-style and will be immediately familiar to most folks. One word of advice: "Classic Menu Style" for the launcher will help keep things much more traditional.
Why so much hate for the terminal? It's easy to use, hard to look at and drives you insane. All of the things you NEED to be a good developer.
fortune: cpu time/usefulness ratio too high -- core dumped.