Peter, thanks for some entertainment with your colorful review of Win8. It really was quite amusing to read.
Regards Pete On 13/07/2012, at 1:46 AM, Daniel Kerr <wa...@macwizardry.com.au> wrote: > Lol Peter are you sure you're not a comedy writer in your spare time :)) > Nice "Review" ;) > And OS X8 just makes it look funny,...all it needs is an ) under it,... X8) > and it's smiley glass made (look sideways)...lol > Aren't we glad we're Mac users,....lol > > Kind regards > Daniel > --- > Daniel Kerr > MacWizardry > > Phone: 0414 795 960 > Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> > Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> > > > **For everything Apple** > > On 13/07/2012, at 12:41 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > >> Just my own humble opinion, but after having had a run with the trial >> version of Windows 8, all I can say is that Apple's share of the desktop >> space can do nothing but increase. This thing will set Windows users all >> over screaming in all directions. >> >> Having upgraded my copy of Parallels to version 7 through one of the recent >> MacUpdate bundles, I thought I'd see what all the excitement was about and >> took advantage of the easy Windows 8 download/installation option offered on >> the Parallels start screen. All it has cost me so far has been 3 Gb of hard >> drive space, and time I'll never get back. >> >> Where to begin? >> >> Windows 8 is startling, to say the least. As illogical as it was, at least >> the Start Button was an identifiable object at the bottom left of the >> screen, where you knew could go to launch programs, call up Control Panels, >> gain access to the hard drive's contents, and even log out or shut down. >> Even if it was illogically named, at least most people were able to work out >> its many uses fairly quickly. Now, in Window 8's Metro Interface - it's >> gone! Now I can see that for Microsoft Windows, the only thing more >> illogical than the Start Button is NOT having a start button. >> >> It took me a good ten minutes of careful mousing around to discover how to >> shut down: you have to park your mouse in the very bottom right-hand corner >> of the screen, whereupon a transparent menu containing five icons pops out >> from the right-hand side of the screen. You then have to move mouse over >> this menu, at which point it turns black and the icons now have labels: >> Search, Share, Start (ah! there it is...), Devices and Settings. Perhaps the >> Shutdown command is under the "Start" icon (well, it's been like that for >> the last seventeen years!)? Nope. All that does is take you back to the >> Metro Interface. >> >> Oh, and by the way...if you object to Launchpad in Lion and soon Mountain >> Lion, you're going to HATE Metro in Windows 8. They've taken Launchpad and >> made it look ugly but hey! It does respond to gestures on the Mousepad! >> >> OK, so how do we shut down? Turns out that's in the Settings Icon! Of >> course. Everyone has been telling Microsoft for years that the Start Button >> was a silly place to go to shut down, so obviously, it's now a SETTING. Wow. >> >> Well let's try actually doing something. Let's try a few programs (which are >> all presented as icons displayed against garishly coloured panels). Let's >> try "Maps". Nothing happens. OK, it is a trial, perhaps it's not ready yet. >> >> Let's try Calendar. Nope, I need a Microsoft account to do that. How about >> Weather? >> >> Yes, that works. Only trouble is that the temperatures are all in >> Fahrenheit. There is no obvious way to change this within Weather itself, so >> let's quit and try to find the Regions Control Panel. Hang on...THERE'S NO >> QUIT COMMAND. There's no window to close because the program takes up the >> entire screen. There is no window and there is no menu. There's an inactive >> Back Button and that's all. The only way out is to drag the mouse down to >> bottom right of the screen, rollup to the popout menu and click the Start >> Icon, which takes me back to the Metro Interface. Maybe I'm starting to get >> the hang of this. >> >> There's still no Control Panel though. What happens if I right-click on the >> background? Suddenly, a large green Dockish-lookng area pops up at the >> bottom of the screen, containing a single icon labelled "All apps". I click >> this and I get as screen entitled "Apps". That's right - APPS! How iOS of >> them, but now things are looking a little more hopeful. By now, Parallels >> has populated this screen with all of my Mac applications as well, so I can >> use Windows 8 as an Application launcher for the Mac if I really want to, >> but that's by the by. The important thing is I've now found the Control >> Panel. Click. >> >> I've now left the Metro Interface and I'm looking at a more familiar Windows >> 7-like screen. But not quite. There's still no Start Button, but perhaps >> even worse, there's absolutely no indication anywhere that the Weather "app" >> is still running! I would at least expect to see some sign of it in the Task >> Bar; but I'm trying sort this measurements problem, so I go to the Region" >> settings, but there's no allowance for temperature measurements. There is a >> setting for "Measurements" which is set to "Metric", but it has had no >> effect on the Weather program. >> >> There's more believe me, but it's all in the same vein. Much of the included >> software won't work without a Microsoft account. When in the new Metro >> Interface there are no menus, no windows (funny - it IS called Windows >> 8...), no clear or intuitive pathways to get back from wherever it is you >> end up. It is certainly possible to work it out, but it requires >> considerable patience, a bit of lateral thinking, and lots of poking into >> dark corners with the mouse cursor. Even right-clicking has completely >> unexpected results depending on where you are. You can get back to a Windows >> 7-like Desktop environment that does have windows and menus, but you can't >> do much without inevitably returning to the Metro disaster. >> >> Enough. I've wasted enough time with all this. At least now I know how to >> shut down gracefully. Goodbye. >> >> I have been privately congratulating Microsoft for finally finding the >> resources to strike out their own and come up with something different >> instead of just copying or buying whatever else is out there. Now I'm glad >> I've kept it mostly private. Windows 8 just shows that Microsoft should not >> be let on their own. I can only hope that there enough complaints from early >> adopters that some important changes can be made before this thing is >> released to an unsuspecting public. Vista was bad enough, but they were able >> to recover to a large extent with Windows 7. I don't know how they will >> recover from this. From what I can see there will be no escape from the >> Metro Interface with this system. All common workflows will be thrown to the >> four winds. Just working out what to do is a major challenge. It's going to >> be an IT Manager's worst nightmare. >> >> On the other hand, it must bode well for OS X 8. Anyone fearful of Mountain >> Lion will quickly see they have nothing to worry about. Bring on Mountain >> Lion! Please!! >> >> As I said at the beginning, it's jut my humble opinion... >> >> >> Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services >> FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer >> Perth, Western Australia >> Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
