The Register has linked to two videos which purportedly capture Windows 9, or at least Build 9834, in action and revealing some not so new tricks. The first shows a feature which will be new to anyone who has never used Linux but will be old hat to anyone who has, multiple desktops. This feature will let you have separate switchable desktops which you can run different programs on, it is not a tool to create virtual machines on the fly but is handy if you need a full desktop for development and one for … entertainment. The second video shows off the Start Menu, tiles and the much improved placement of the power off button.
"New videos of a "Windows 9" variant have emerged, and to this hack's eyes they look to have brought Windows up to speed with tricks that various desktop flavours of Unix have had for a decade or more."
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I need to build a cheap rig
I need to build a cheap rig for school within the next 2 weeks unfortunately.
Will there be an “upgrade” program to Win 9 if you buy Win8.1 now? Or even better buy Win 7 now?
I seriously doubt they will
I seriously doubt they will do the upgrade again
Windows 8 is superior to
Windows 8 is superior to Windows 7.
You probably are just annoyed by the new interface but you can fix that with a $5 program called Start8 from Stardock.
There are seriously a LOT of changes under the hood that make Windows 8 more reliable, secure, future compatible, etc.
I wish that Microsoft would
I wish that Microsoft would lose the Fisher Price color scheme.
I’m getting closer, and
I’m getting closer, and closer, to getting a mac mini, and that handoff/continuity looks interesting, If I can get an iPad, and handoff workloads to a mac mini, then turn around and, remote desktop into the mac-mini from the ipad and control the application remotely, that I just handed off to the mini, I may just get both a mac mini and an iPad. I could get a mac mini, and low end ipad, and still come out spending less than what a surface 3 costs! And the mac mini can fit just fine in the laptop bag alongside an iPad, and be plugged in at the coffee house, and serve headlessly, with the iPad controlling, remotely, the desktop on the mini. I’m just waiting for the New Mac Minis to become available, hopefully they will support at least 32GB of memory, and the fastest WiFi. The mac mini form factor is great for the road, and serving more computing power to a laptop, or tablet.
And when I say remotely, I mean directly(ad Hoc) via wifi to the mac mini, from a ipad without any third party cloud service login required.
Windows 7 runs just fine on minis in a OSX based VM, and hopefully an OSX based VM will be able to take advantage of Yosemite’s features.
How is it that in their
How is it that in their pursuit of a cleaner, slicker, and more refined interface over the last decade, all they have managed to do is make it more cluttered, clunky, and ugly?
I mean, even OSX is getting long in the tooth and tiring with their interfaces (and most linux desktops aren’t faring much better in their attempts to just reproduce what everyone else is doing, either) — but Windows is actually managing to look like something a little kid put together. It’s like if a professional artist drew something and then a toddler tried to mimic it.
Nothing about the interface is inviting or appealing. It looks like using it every day would feel like doing your taxes.
Don’t get me wrong, Windows 7 and earlier are ugly, but they’re clean and refined compared to Windows 8 and (so far) Windows 9.
I think windows 9 is just
I think windows 9 is just windows 8 with a new GUI
and something is wrong with
and something is wrong with this? hate the tiles or not win8 is very fast, give it a new GUI and more new tricks and MS has a slam dunk!