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On 02/01/2013 00:36, bad apple wrote:
Scuse me butting in, but you mention a lot of improvements 'under the hood' that are in Windows 8; my question, which I believe will be the main question of the *average* punter is, not what file system does it use, but 'Where the hell is X?' X being anything from Windows Explorer to Device Manager. To be honest when I tried out a pre-release version in a VM I even had trouble figuring out how to close anything, eventually finding the 'mouse to bottom left corner to pop up the close icon'. Totally alien to all users of Windows used to the X in the top right. I don't think the average user will either care about, or even be aware of, the improvements you've listed, but what they *will* be aware of is the fact that pretty much every single one of their favourite/most used functions have been moved around into totally alien places. I was chatting to two such users yesterday on Twitter one of whom has had Windows 8 for six weeks and hates it, another who had a Windows 8 laptop for Christmas and cannot get on with it at all, and they are typical of the average users I am referring to.On 02/01/13 00:00, Kai Hendry wrote:On 2 January 2013 01:40, bad apple<ifindthatinteresting@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Windows 8 is actually pretty decent - just pretend all that "theReally? What technical merit does it bring to the table? Is the filesystem still doggedly slow? ;)No. NTFS has been incrementally improved over the years and is not any worse than any other filesystem that isn't ZFS.
I will be having a look for 'Classic Shell' which was mentioned previously in this thread to see if that will ameliorate their woes.
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