I could have one button that pops up a menu with large selection buttons - I have that on my Windows Media Center already (under tasks) - surely that could work?
I also don’t see how one power button is going to facilitate both shutdown and restart. I have Win8 running on my HP Slate 500, and frankly these little niggly things are just annoying I've had Win Server 2012 running for a long time for my IIS8 book - by the way, it's out soon, just in time for Christmas :) , and it's a PITA to use in a VM Apple manages to make it work with just one button on their iPad - maybe Microsoft could have done something similar with one or two hardware buttons for a "designed for Windows 8" PC Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 21 November 2012 10:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Window 8 on your PC Because of touch. All of those things in one place means small buttons which are hard to click on with big fingers. That's my guess on it. The log off location makes sense on a touch device as you can easily switch users. The shutdown and restart makes little sense at all but apparently it's because people press the power button on touch devices. James. -----Original Message----- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, 21 November 2012 9:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Window 8 on your PC Why should people have to "figure it out"? Shutdown, Restart, Logoff, Sleep, Standby, Hibernate were all in one place before, and it worked for all the hundreds of millions of people using Windows. Why change it? -----Original Message----- From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 21 November 2012 9:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Window 8 on your PC Are you saying it will be difficult for the admins to use or difficult for the admins as users won't be able to work it out? The admins should be able to quickly work it out and after that it is easy. Users have always(since remote desktop was invented) either not known how to log off or couldn't be bothered. They just click on the X and disconnect (so us admins have to configure session timeouts etc to eventually log off the session). So no changes in that area for Server 2012 for the users imo. James. -----Original Message----- From: Randal, Phil [mailto:phil.ran...@hoopleltd.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, 21 November 2012 7:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Window 8 on your PC Correct me if I'm wrong, but the 'log out' 'button' being hidden the way it is in Windows 8 and Server 2012 will be a nightmare for terminal server admins. Ugh. Phil -- Phil Randal Infrastructure Engineer Hoople Ltd | Thorn Office Centre | Hereford HR2 6JT Tel: 01432 260415 | Email: phil.ran...@hoopleltd.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] Sent: 21 November 2012 08:44 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Window 8 on your PC The location of log off and the shutdown menu are both a nuisance. I have a 6 year old and a 4 year old that were placed in front of Windows 8 and were installing apps from the store, playing games etc without any tuition. I showed them how to do a shutdown and that was about it. James. -----Original Message----- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, 21 November 2012 8:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Window 8 on your PC We won't be deploying it this school year, that's for sure. It's just too late and we would get a lot of negative feedback. Also we tend to hold off on such deployments until the product has a little shake-down time and we get a break to do upgrades. Personally, I'm not looking forward to 8 on the desktop in a lab environment. One nitpick of my own: It's very difficult to log off, which is something every 7-18 year old in our schools will have to do. While some know that you can quickly find a logout with Ctrl-Alt-Del, most don't. Last, most of the software run by our users aren't in the DCIM* interface. So really, there isn't a feature that is yet pushing us to Win8 yet. I have seen start-button replacements, like Start8, but we like to go with the Officially supported versions of things if we can. Thus, if Microsoft makes it an option to stick people to the Desktop and give them a way to launch programs/logoff, I'll give it another try. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
