On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Steven Peck <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Steven Peck <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I keep looking up and the sky is still there.... >> >> Nobody said the sky was falling, or that we should go back to DOS, >> or that Microsoft wasn't staffed by professionals. Building a straw >> an and then attacking that doesn't actually address any of the >> comments people have been making. > > Then perhaps it was the sound of panic in some of the messges that > distracted me. Dismissing the rest of my comments amounts to the same thing > on your part.
I'm not dismissing them. Here they are in full if it matters -- my statement is the same either way: On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Steven Peck <[email protected]> wrote: > I keep looking up and the sky is still there. > > I've been using it on hardware at home since Thursday (not nearly long > enough). People are doing the same thing they do anytime there is a > change. The Internetz hate it because (it's different/not what I am used > to/how dare they). > > Whatever. > > It took me 30-60 minutes to adjust to navigating around the interface. I > don't miss the Start button, I just pop down where I used to and wow, there > something is. As to the metro apps, I am trying them. So far (baring the > oddities of my live id setup) they are working ok and I am adjusting to the > operational differences. I figured I would give it more then 5 days of > intermittent use before I actually declared I was going back to the good old > days of DOS! > > I haven't installed Office yet, but once I do that, poof, there goes most of > the reason I would launch a metro app anyway. Except Xbox companion, and a > few games, and the people hub is interesting, oh, the picture hub too.... > > This is the first public generation of the Metro UI. We're completing our > migration to Windows 7 this year at work. It would have been last year > except internal politics and the new manager seems to have things on time > this round. Enterprise will adjust slowly however, our management is making > sure we are watching this change but we don't plan to leap into it. We are > also not saying no yet as a gut reaction. We seriously won't even decide > this until next year in any case, however, we will be watching it and the > corporate stuff that will come with it. > > I am going to do the VHD load on my wife's laptop this weekend since she is > so interested in trying it out. She is not a techie, usually she just > tolerates it when I update her technology at home. This time, she is > intrigued and wants to play with it. > > http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToGuideToInstallingAndBootingWindows8ConsumerPreviewOffAVHDVirtualHardDisk.aspx > > I have met some of the MS UI folks when they came out and interviewed a > bunch of our team last year. It was interesting. They seemed like > competent professionals. I am willing to wait and see if I can deal with > this change in a calm rational manner when we get more information on the > interesting stuff. GPOs customization options, etc. later this year. > > I suspect that in the end we will get the same people pulling out that tired > old meme (every other OS is a failure) which isn't really true, or pulling > out the graphics comparing Windows 8 to some early version of Windows that > actually ran on DOS with the hot dog theme set and pretending like there is > some relevant comparison between shortcuts and Live Tiles, memory management > and underlying capabilities. These will all be the same people who said > Microsoft must address the iPads and smart phones or they will be fail. Now > mostly, these same people are saying Microsoft is all sorts of fail when > they actually took a bold step in re-imaging their entire line up in a way, > that is starting to look pretty darn interesting (SkyDrive for everyone) > > Fortunately, we should see the trend in a year. Maybe some of you with 10 > GB list archives will remind us who gets to gloat eh? I wonder what the > list discussion will be like when people start talking about server 8. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
