Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th Mar 2013 23:07 UTC
"A senior Samsung Electronics executive said Friday the launch of Windows 8 has failed to bolster demand for PCs and he does not expect the PC industry to rebound soon." Of course, Samsung and other OEMs could've, you know, built better computers. Just a suggestion.
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RE[2]: And the tech community utters a collective 'no duh'
by gan17 on Sat 9th Mar 2013 10:20
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You can get out of a Metro application in two main ways: either kill the application using Alt-F4 or switch to another application using Alt-Tab or Win-Tab. Additionally, many Metro apps give you the ability to close them by right-clicking to bring up settings.
I have no experience with Win8 so I can't comment on it's UI, but there's something I'm curious about here. Has anyone ever done any sort of research/study on how many people actually use Alt-F4 or Alt/Super-Tab?
I'm sure the average teen or MS-Office user knows these bindings, but my mum never knew about it in all her time with Win 98 and XP. Also experienced my fair share of "how-u-do-dat?!!" reactions from people while I Alt-Tabbed to switch between apps whenever helping them out on their computers, and they came from all walks of life.
Right-clicking is probably more natural for someone raised on Windows, I figure.
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RE[3]: And the tech community utters a collective 'no duh'
by cmost on Sat 9th Mar 2013 14:38
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RE[2]: And the tech community utters a collective 'no duh'
by JAlexoid on Sat 9th Mar 2013 18:18
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I've been running Windows 8 for a few weeks now. A few observations on what you've said:
I don't know why this is happening. All I have to do is press a key or click the mouse to bring up the login prompt.
You can get out of a Metro application in two main ways: either kill the application using Alt-F4 or switch to another application using Alt-Tab or Win-Tab. Additionally, many Metro apps give you the ability to close them by right-clicking to bring up settings.
When you think about it, this really isn't that different from previous versions of windows.
Going on all the negative press that I'd read about it prior to using it, I would have believed this. But having used it for a few weeks now, I actually prefer how Windows 8 does things. Give it some time.