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Char Jackson typed:
On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 07:34:35 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 10:47:29 +0100, Roderick Stewart
wrote:

Well, they were stupid enough to give us Windows 8, a system which
abandoned just about every main feature that anybody could
recognise,


Only if you use the Metro/Modern interface, which is entirely
optional.

No, not "entirely" optional, but mostly optional. If it were entirely
optional, a user would be able to use just one interface or the other,
rather than a mix of the two. I would like to be able to use only the
desktop interface, but I can't.

As far as I'm concerned, what Microsoft did wrong is not make it at
all clear that Windows 8 has two interfaces, and you can use either
or both.

IMHO, that's a big flaw, but by far not the biggest. Compared to
Windows 7, I can only think of a few very minor things that Microsoft
did right, where right means better, such as the improved progress
meter when copying or moving files in Windows Explorer, or the
improved Performance tab in Task Manager. Speaking of Task Manager,
however, they completely screwed it up in other ways. When my system
is under duress, I sometimes can't even load Task Manager, or if it's
already running it'll go to a Not Responding state. That's not very
useful, and it's a completely different and inferior behavior to
previous versions of Windows. That's just the tip of the iceberg,
though. When I'm logging onto Win 8, I type my password, then I click
the password field to give it focus, and then I type my password
again. In previous Windows versions, when you're presented with the
logon password screen, the password field would already have focus. A
small thing, to be sure, and it doesn't happen all of the time, but
there are dozens of these small irritants scattered liberally about.

Both Windows 7 and 8 has some annoying habits. Like both when popping up
a new window, grabs the focus for a split second and then bouncing back
to the old window sometimes. And both hogs the CPU so much for the OS
itself, you need a multi-core processor just so it runs as fast as XP on
a single core.

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Bill
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