I assumed metro and win8 are envisioned for computers with a touch screen....which is my it is installed on my dell latitude xt....a convertible tablet. I guess a lot of folks don't have these types of laptops...but my new x220t s a convertible too.
Sent from my iPad 2 On Jan 28, 2012, at 7:59 PM, "Greg Sevart" <[email protected]> wrote: > On a touch interface, I would agree--it has a lot of design merits. But on a > traditional PC with a mouse interface, it looks fscking stupid. I hope that > they give us an option to completely disable it. > > The inability to move an app between Metro and "regular" desktops is > completely missing the boat too, IMO. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 1:06 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] Vista SP3? > > The more I play with metro the more I like it. For point of sale systems > its fantastic > > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bryan Seitz <[email protected]> > Sender: [email protected]: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 > 12:31:15 > To: <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] Vista SP3? > > F@#% metro, re tar ded :) > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 12:37:04AM -0600, Greg Sevart wrote: >> Duncan--don't look now, but Windows 8 is due this year. :) >> >> ...though, frankly, I'm far from sold on Metro. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of DSinc >> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 3:12 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [H] Vista SP3? >> >> Francisco, >> Thanks for this info. I have started my shopping for W7pro. >> I have questions. L8R. >> Plan to end with 3 W7pro clients and 2 old XP clients. >> Best, >> Duncan >> >> >> On 01/27/2012 10:57, Francisco Tapia wrote: >>> well i'm a little ignorant on my win7 pricing because well I get my >>> work laptops pre-loaded from the helpdesk and all my other home >>> machines are osx ( ~$30 for the sw upgrades) but a google search >>> kicked out ~ $70 for win7 premium vs ultimate, which really I don't >>> know what MS refers to as home ultimate vs the workstation ultimate... >>> but I do agree dropping in another 1/3rd of the original cost on the >>> damn thing doesnt make a lot of sense except that it's a better >>> piece of mind, I had vista on the current worklaptop and it sucked, >>> I had errors, my visual studio would crash... if i left the damn >>> thing running for over 2 days I had odd behaviors, now I'm on win7 and > its' >>> actually beyond cool, as stable as my work xp machine and it's >>> speedy/zippy with it's nforce3 flash drive ;) >>> >>> -Francisco >>> http://bit.ly/sqlthis | Tsql and More... >>> <http://db.tt/JeXURAx> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 20:23, >> [email protected]<[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> For sure, but I'm not going to lay out for another copy of 7 for >>>> this thing. >>>> >>>> >>>> On January 26, 2012 at 3:40 PM Francisco Tapia<[email protected]> > wrote: >>>> >>>>> if it runs vista, wouldn't it be better to upgrade to win7? (good >>>>> score >>>> tho) >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Regards, >>>> joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... >>>> >>>> "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..." >>>> >> > > -- > > Bryan G. Seitz > >
