I definitely don't have look and feel issues when it comes to Windows 7,
since I like trying new things. It's purely an issue of response time for
me. If I hit a key and it takes a brand spankin' new computer a quarter of a
second for Jaws to respond, there is an issue. That same computer just a few
months down the road is even worse. I've worked with both my wife's laptop
and my son's desktop, both using windows 7, and I'm not impressed. I used to
have Vista on my desktop, and other than a lot of buggy behavior it wasn't
too bad, but it wasn't like XP. I didn't feel it was stable or responsive.
One of its best features was its accessible games. I enjoyed playing Purble
Place with my son.
Also, I can admit to some ignorance of how to optimize it for speed. I'm
sure all the fancy animations and graphics were on, for example.
I can't say one way or another as regards to Windows 8 except that i'm
itching to try it just to see what it's like.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] challenge for developers, post xp windows
Hi Dallas,
Agreed. It is sort of amusing because as you said Microsoft has stuck
with the XP look and feel for so long that users forgot what it was
like to go from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 or from Windows 98 to XP.
Both offered major changes in the user interface and I don't remember
people screaming quite as loudly or as fanatically as they are over
Windows 7 and Windows8.
However, what I think they need is a point of comparison. As you
pointed out is that other operating systems haven't stood still or
been quite as static as Windows has been for the last ten or so years.
The Linux graphical desktop environments like Gnome have constantly
been updating and evolving little by little until we have something
completely different from what we had ten ore more years ago. Today
Gnome 3.8 is as different from Gnome 2.8 as Windows 8 is from XP, but
that change was gradual rather than over night. There was some
grumbling on the Orca list when Gnome whent from Gnome 2.32 to 3.0,
but those were mainly over access issues rather than the UI changes.
This might sound a bit harsh,but I think Windows users are a bit
spoiled by the fact Microsoft chose to keep their user interface as
long as they have. Apple, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and pretty much
anybody who is anyone has been changing their user interfaces from
version to version and Microsoft just chose to hit their customers all
at once rather than ease them into it the way other software companies
have.
On 5/1/13, Dallas O'Brien <dallas.r.obr...@gmail.com> wrote:
It's kind of ironic. Apple in a lot of ways, invented what we now know as
windows. Microsoft actually use the ideas that apple used originally.
Mind
you, Apple didn't invent it either really. They technically got it from
Xerox. LOL. So blame Xerox.
The interesting thing about this, is that people are complaining about
how
different windows 8 is to Windows 7 and earlier. Because Microsoft didn't
change very much in Windows for so long, So the change now has come as
somewhat of a shock to some people. Especially those that have been using
windows for some time.
Of course, Apple has been changing continually, over a long period of
time,
making small changes here and there, so as not to make it such a jarring
experience. Microsoft has made the mistake, of waiting too long before
making a change to windows in a major way. Whereas Apple has done it
slowly
over about 10 years.
It's kind of amusing, to hear people talking about 32-bit and 64-bit
Windows, and what software can run on one and what can't run on the
other.
Because, quite simply, Apple made the choice to go permanently 64-bit.
Because of this, they don't tend to have this kind of problem. About the
only thing that doesn't run now, Would be older apps designed for the
old
processes. So Apple have in fact made the jump to 64-bit completely,
whereas
windows is still again, a kind of half way measure, where you can do
both.
It would be so much simpler, if Microsoft would do the same. Make
everything
64-bit, if you want support for anything else, you will have to use
emulators, or an old computer.
And in fact, from all the information we have got now, the next major
version of windows, is going to do Exactly that. There will be no 32-bit
version. And it's about time. LOL. All of our computers that we have
bought
for the last six years or more, minus the netbooks, are 64-bit capable.
So
there is no reason to hold back, and keep using 32-bit versions of
windows.
Of course, this was done for compatibility, with older programs.
But what is being said now, is 99% of everything that is out there now,
is
either a 32-bit program, or a 64-bit program. There is little reason to
stay
in a 32-bit operating system from here on in.
Regards:
Dallas
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