The are more options in 8.1 to get rid of the charms and stuf. You can for example dissable the charms from popping out in the top-right corner, leaving only the bottom-right corner for the charms, and not both. Abbility to boot directly to desktop is also new in 8.1 and nice to have on a workstation. All these new settings and more is found by right clicking the taskbar and choose Properties -> Navigation tab.
/Jens On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Eugen Sares <sof...@mail.sprit.org> wrote: > Windows 8(.1) is a very good system, with plenty of improvements under > the hood. No problems whatsoever with all the graphics software. > Don't get fooled by opinions about the metro thing. Use it or leave it. My > 2c: bravo to MS for being brave once! On a tablet, it really shines. > > There's improvements to the desktop as well. For example, ISOs can be > mounted ootb now, and I for my part find the new ribbons on top of the file > explorer windows quite handy. > And no more Areo glass... desktop has a slick and dry feeling to it. > > The only point I don't like so much is the charms menu, which you get when > hitting the right screen edge with the cursor (or swiping from the right on > a tablet). Not because it's a bad idea, but because the choice of > icons/functions is somewhat strange. E.g. you have to click the 'settings' > gear icon to get to the on/off switch... ideally, charms should be freely > configurable. > Small tip: RMB the bottom left corner (8.0) or start button (8.1) to get > to a new, quite convenient, menu with all the relevant configuration > shortcuts. There's a menu item for power down, too. > > Best, > Eugen > > ------ Originalnachricht ------ > Von: "Martin Yara" <furik...@gmail.com> > An: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com" <softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> > Gesendet: 14.01.2014 02:46:04 > Betreff: Re: Windows 8 > > > Thanks! Now I'm definitely buying our new PCs with Win 8(8.1) specially > since Win 7 is not easy to find these days. The Win8 Pro downgrade option > is something I wish I knew when we bought a couple of Win7 PCs a few months > ago. > > Now, Is it worth to upgrade our old PCs? So far it doesn't seem so, but I > may upgrade just one to try it myself with dual boot or something. > > Martin > > > > ------------------------------ > <http://www.avast.com/> > > Diese E-Mail ist frei von Viren und Malware, denn der avast! > Antivirus<http://www.avast.com/>Schutz ist aktiv. > > -- Jens Lindgren -------------------------- Lead Technical Director Magoo 3D Studios <http://www.magoo3dstudios.com/>
