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Old March 8th 15, 11:45 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Larry Cooper[_3_]
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All that remains is for Microsoft to deliver on their promise of a faster
cycle of build releases for Insiders, which should mean we will get to play
around with a new build sometime in the coming week.

www.neowin.net

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Old March 9th 15, 01:51 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Dick[_4_]
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On 3/8/2015 6:45 PM, Larry Cooper wrote:
All that remains is for Microsoft to deliver on their promise of a
faster cycle of build releases for Insiders, which should mean we will
get to play around with a new build sometime in the coming week.

www.neowin.net


Well, it looks like Metro is back!!!

I just can't believe that they are so enamored with this interface...

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Old March 9th 15, 02:41 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
philo
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On 03/08/2015 07:51 PM, Dick wrote:
On 3/8/2015 6:45 PM, Larry Cooper wrote:
All that remains is for Microsoft to deliver on their promise of a
faster cycle of build releases for Insiders, which should mean we will
get to play around with a new build sometime in the coming week.

www.neowin.net


Well, it looks like Metro is back!!!

I just can't believe that they are so enamored with this interface...




Metro ugh


I'm still at 9926 I do not want Metro
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Old March 9th 15, 03:20 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
T
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On 03/08/2015 06:41 PM, philo wrote:
On 03/08/2015 07:51 PM, Dick wrote:
On 3/8/2015 6:45 PM, Larry Cooper wrote:
All that remains is for Microsoft to deliver on their promise of a
faster cycle of build releases for Insiders, which should mean we will
get to play around with a new build sometime in the coming week.

www.neowin.net


Well, it looks like Metro is back!!!

I just can't believe that they are so enamored with this interface...




Metro ugh


I'm still at 9926 I do not want Metro



Ours is not to reason why. Ours is to do or die or
switch to Linux. Course, our customer's won't switch
(Quickbooks, Office, etc.), so we just have to do and
hold our nose

Did M$ really bring Metro back? Me thinks I will
need a larger cloths pin for my nose!
  #5  
Old March 9th 15, 03:31 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
philo
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On 03/08/2015 09:20 PM, T wrote:



I'm still at 9926 I do not want Metro



Ours is not to reason why. Ours is to do or die or
switch to Linux. Course, our customer's won't switch
(Quickbooks, Office, etc.), so we just have to do and
hold our nose

Did M$ really bring Metro back? Me thinks I will
need a larger cloths pin for my nose!




Curiosity got to me but on my end 10031 is not yet available.

What the heck, when it is I guess I will go with it just to have a look
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Old March 9th 15, 05:21 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul
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philo wrote:
On 03/08/2015 09:20 PM, T wrote:



I'm still at 9926 I do not want Metro



Ours is not to reason why. Ours is to do or die or
switch to Linux. Course, our customer's won't switch
(Quickbooks, Office, etc.), so we just have to do and
hold our nose

Did M$ really bring Metro back? Me thinks I will
need a larger cloths pin for my nose!




Curiosity got to me but on my end 10031 is not yet available.

What the heck, when it is I guess I will go with it just to have a look


I have 9926 update installed now.

It made a 450MB recovery partition (for booting to Command Prompt).

As for the UI, I tried to start an application and
got a "spinning wheel of death". My command to
start a program was not obeyed. I shut down the
OS and disconnected the hard drive.

Hey, Microsoft! It's my computer. You can't have it.
If I want a "spinning wheel of death" as my
companion, I'll buy a Mac.

The sad part is, the computer is a hex core, and many times,
the CPU is doing nothing, and the GUI is giving me the finger.
What kind of a stupid design is that ? Is the intent to take
the best CPUs, and make them run with tablet lethargy ? Profit!

Paul
  #7  
Old March 9th 15, 06:35 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Malaka
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"Paul" escreveu na mensagem ...

philo wrote:
On 03/08/2015 09:20 PM, T wrote:



I'm still at 9926 I do not want Metro


Ours is not to reason why. Ours is to do or die or
switch to Linux. Course, our customer's won't switch
(Quickbooks, Office, etc.), so we just have to do and
hold our nose

Did M$ really bring Metro back? Me thinks I will
need a larger cloths pin for my nose!




Curiosity got to me but on my end 10031 is not yet available.

What the heck, when it is I guess I will go with it just to have a look


I have 9926 update installed now.

It made a 450MB recovery partition (for booting to Command Prompt).

As for the UI, I tried to start an application and
got a "spinning wheel of death". My command to
start a program was not obeyed. I shut down the
OS and disconnected the hard drive.

Hey, Microsoft! It's my computer. You can't have it.
If I want a "spinning wheel of death" as my
companion, I'll buy a Mac.

The sad part is, the computer is a hex core, and many times,
the CPU is doing nothing, and the GUI is giving me the finger.
What kind of a stupid design is that ? Is the intent to take
the best CPUs, and make them run with tablet lethargy ? Profit!

Paul


I've heard Macs are made exclusively for designers and photoshopers. Windows
is made for normal people.

  #8  
Old March 9th 15, 09:39 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
philo
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On 03/08/2015 11:21 PM, Paul wrote:


Curiosity got to me but on my end 10031 is not yet available.

What the heck, when it is I guess I will go with it just to have a look


I have 9926 update installed now.

It made a 450MB recovery partition (for booting to Command Prompt).

As for the UI, I tried to start an application and
got a "spinning wheel of death". My command to
start a program was not obeyed. I shut down the
OS and disconnected the hard drive.

Hey, Microsoft! It's my computer. You can't have it.
If I want a "spinning wheel of death" as my
companion, I'll buy a Mac.

The sad part is, the computer is a hex core, and many times,
the CPU is doing nothing, and the GUI is giving me the finger.
What kind of a stupid design is that ? Is the intent to take
the best CPUs, and make them run with tablet lethargy ? Profit!

Paul




My VM install does that too
but on real hardware it seems to run fairly well
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Old March 9th 15, 09:43 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
philo
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On 03/09/2015 12:35 AM, Malaka wrote:
"

Curiosity got to me but on my end 10031 is not yet available.

What the heck, when it is I guess I will go with it just to have a look


I have 9926 update installed now.

It made a 450MB recovery partition (for booting to Command Prompt).

As for the UI, I tried to start an application and
got a "spinning wheel of death". My command to
start a program was not obeyed. I shut down the
OS and disconnected the hard drive.

Hey, Microsoft! It's my computer. You can't have it.
If I want a "spinning wheel of death" as my
companion, I'll buy a Mac.

The sad part is, the computer is a hex core, and many times,
the CPU is doing nothing, and the GUI is giving me the finger.
What kind of a stupid design is that ? Is the intent to take
the best CPUs, and make them run with tablet lethargy ? Profit!

Paul


I've heard Macs are made exclusively for designers and photoshopers.
Windows is made for normal people.




I have a few Macs here that are not used often but they are good machines.

Ever since they have gone "Intel" there is essentially no difference in
hardware between a Mac and a PC.


The operating system is simply BSD with a familiar Mac "user friendly" GUI

Less face it, running Photoshop or Firefox (for example) on a Mac or on
a PC is not going to be a whole lot different.

Main advantage of a Mac is no Windows virus problems
  #10  
Old March 9th 15, 09:56 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Roderick Stewart
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On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 05:35:59 -0000, "Malaka"
wrote:

I've heard Macs are made exclusively for designers and photoshopers. Windows
is made for normal people.


Macs are for rich people.
Linux is for clever people.
Windows is for everybody else.

Rod.
  #11  
Old March 9th 15, 10:01 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Roderick Stewart
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On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 20:51:56 -0400, Dick
wrote:

www.neowin.net


Well, it looks like Metro is back!!!

I just can't believe that they are so enamored with this interface...


Being a large near-monopoly, they're just not enamoured of the concept
of admitting that they got something wrong.

Rod.
  #12  
Old March 9th 15, 11:44 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul
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philo wrote:
On 03/08/2015 11:21 PM, Paul wrote:


Curiosity got to me but on my end 10031 is not yet available.

What the heck, when it is I guess I will go with it just to have a look


I have 9926 update installed now.

It made a 450MB recovery partition (for booting to Command Prompt).

As for the UI, I tried to start an application and
got a "spinning wheel of death". My command to
start a program was not obeyed. I shut down the
OS and disconnected the hard drive.

Hey, Microsoft! It's my computer. You can't have it.
If I want a "spinning wheel of death" as my
companion, I'll buy a Mac.

The sad part is, the computer is a hex core, and many times,
the CPU is doing nothing, and the GUI is giving me the finger.
What kind of a stupid design is that ? Is the intent to take
the best CPUs, and make them run with tablet lethargy ? Profit!

Paul




My VM install does that too
but on real hardware it seems to run fairly well


Unfortunately, my experience was on real hardware.

*******

I just tried another experiment, for fun.

I ran Disk Cleanup, since the installation of 9926
is a major change (an upgrade install), there is
a Windows.old folder. I had Disk Cleanup remove it.
Then, did a reboot.

It didn't seem to be quite as busy at startup.
I was still getting the spinning wheel of death,
and programs starting out of order (Task Manager
managed to start before Firefox, even though
I tried to start Firefox first).

One other culprit I noticed, was Catalyst Control Center
was rather busy. You wouldn't think a control panel software
I was not even using at the moment, would be excitedly reading
files, but it was.

*******

Before the Disk Cleanup run, I tried a boot and looked
at the performance stuff. And the disk queue was 1 and
the disk was listed as running at "100%". And that's why
I was getting the "spinning wheel of death". With no disk
bandwidth left, the program loader refused to do anything
useful. Except spin that damn wheel.

I'm thinking Windows Defender is mostly to blame, but would
hammering it be a fair thing to do ? Even before installing 9926,
I used Task Manager with some of the optional columns turned
on, to note that MsMpEng had read around 18GB of files, at
the time I checked. So what I presume is Windows Defender,
seems to be "always on guard". I'm proud of them, whatever
they're doing. With all that polishing, my computer
shure is shiny.

Paul
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Old March 9th 15, 12:18 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Jeff Layman
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On 09/03/15 00:51, Dick wrote:
On 3/8/2015 6:45 PM, Larry Cooper wrote:
All that remains is for Microsoft to deliver on their promise of a
faster cycle of build releases for Insiders, which should mean we will
get to play around with a new build sometime in the coming week.

www.neowin.net


Well, it looks like Metro is back!!!

I just can't believe that they are so enamored with this interface...


Maybe Windows93 from the www.neowin.net site will be more to your taste. ;-)
http://www.neowin.net/news/neobytes-...nd-its-awesome

--

Jeff
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Old March 9th 15, 12:58 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Darklight
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T wrote:

On 03/08/2015 06:41 PM, philo wrote:
On 03/08/2015 07:51 PM, Dick wrote:
On 3/8/2015 6:45 PM, Larry Cooper wrote:
All that remains is for Microsoft to deliver on their promise of a
faster cycle of build releases for Insiders, which should mean we will
get to play around with a new build sometime in the coming week.

www.neowin.net

Well, it looks like Metro is back!!!

I just can't believe that they are so enamored with this interface...




Metro ugh


I'm still at 9926 I do not want Metro



Ours is not to reason why. Ours is to do or die or
switch to Linux. Course, our customer's won't switch
(Quickbooks, Office, etc.),


You can run microsoft office in linux crossover!

so we just have to do and
hold our nose

Did M$ really bring Metro back? Me thinks I will
need a larger cloths pin for my nose!


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Old March 9th 15, 07:41 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
T
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On 03/09/2015 04:58 AM, Darklight wrote:
You can run microsoft office in linux crossover!


Hi Darklight,

Crossover is just another word for the Wine project,
except you pay for it and get nothing of any extra value
from it.

I run Lotus Approach, 123, Word Pro, plus Acrobat 8 in
Wine. They have severe problems. Acrobat 8 is a complete
nightmare in Wine. And the Wine project can take up
to five years to fix a bug, except for games, which they
jump on right away. Wine is still in Alpha stage.

I ran M$O Word 2003 from Wine at a customers site once.
It had a number of issues.

In my experience, it is better to run Libre Office
on Linux that to run M$O under wine, especially now
that Libre Office is so good at reading M$O's proprietary
code. I wouldn't have said this a year ago about
Libre Office, but they have come a long way and they
actaully fix their bugs.

-T
 




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