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On 03/20/2015 07:02 AM, Roderick Stewart wrote:
On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 08:59:43 -0400, Slimer wrote:

Whether people like the tiles or not, I have to admit that they work
beautifully on the tablet and especially on the Windows Phone. There,
people can truly customize their experience in a way that Android and
iOS don't allow.

It might not work on the desktop, I get that, but it doesn't change the
fact that their attempt to try something different and, supposedly, more
secure (each application being sandboxed) should be commended.

They don't work beautifully at all on a desktop computer. It's
possible to resize the tiles, but choosing the small size makes the
labels disappear so you just have a lot of tiny icons with no labels
so you don't know what anything is.

What would work a lot better would be labels with very small icons or
no icons at all, as in a list, like the menus in every version of
Windows since Windows 95, and a few versions of Linux as well. Trying
something different is all very well, but in the case of software
offered to hundreds of millions of people already familiar with a
particular way of working, it needs to be optional. Should we commend
Microsoft for their failure to attempt to use what has been already
proven over several decades?

Rod.


Hi Rod,

1+

And I think Ken was trying to crack a funny.

And they don't put all settings apps in Control Panel,
such as wuapp.exe (the update app) that you have to suffer
tiles to find.

It is like M$ wants to to know the tiles are still
there, just to advertise that they have done it.

-T

On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:29:06 -0700, T wrote:

[...]
And they don't put all settings apps in Control Panel,
such as wuapp.exe (the update app) that you have to suffer
tiles to find.

It is like M$ wants to to know the tiles are still
there, just to advertise that they have done it.

It's almost as if they've dropped a monstrous clanger but will indulge
in any silly pretence rather than be seen to be backtracking and thus
admit they got it wrong.

Still, five more years till Windows 7 support runs out means they have
time to bring out a few more versions, perhaps eventually reinventing
the verbal menu in the hope they can convince us it's something new.

Rod.

On 03/21/2015 04:24 AM, Roderick Stewart wrote:
On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:29:06 -0700, T wrote:

[...]
And they don't put all settings apps in Control Panel,
such as wuapp.exe (the update app) that you have to suffer
tiles to find.

It is like M$ wants to to know the tiles are still
there, just to advertise that they have done it.

It's almost as if they've dropped a monstrous clanger but will indulge
in any silly pretence rather than be seen to be backtracking and thus
admit they got it wrong.

Still, five more years till Windows 7 support runs out means they have
time to bring out a few more versions, perhaps eventually reinventing
the verbal menu in the hope they can convince us it's something new.

Rod.


Hi Rod,

Sadly, you make a good point

Maybe by then something will have changed on the
application front and other OS'es will be able
to give some competition.

-T

On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 14:04:33 -0700, T wrote:

[...]
And they don't put all settings apps in Control Panel,
such as wuapp.exe (the update app) that you have to suffer
tiles to find.

It is like M$ wants to to know the tiles are still
there, just to advertise that they have done it.

It's almost as if they've dropped a monstrous clanger but will indulge
in any silly pretence rather than be seen to be backtracking and thus
admit they got it wrong.

Still, five more years till Windows 7 support runs out means they have
time to bring out a few more versions, perhaps eventually reinventing
the verbal menu in the hope they can convince us it's something new.

Rod.


Hi Rod,

Sadly, you make a good point

Maybe by then something will have changed on the
application front and other OS'es will be able
to give some competition.

On the basis of present performance, I'd almost be willing to put
money on which ones they're most likely to be...

Think of which ones are most stable and most ergonomic today, and
imagine them after about five more years of development.

Rod.