"...and there was much rejoicing." Yeaaaaaa!
Um, is this "talk" written anywhere on a tech journal? --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Rod Trent [mailto:[email protected]] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:50:07 -0800 Subject: RE: Window 8 on your PC > There is talk that the Start button will be coming back in a future update. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 5:08 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Window 8 on your PC > > We won't be deploying it this school year, that's for sure. It's just too > late and we would get a lot of negative feedback. Also we tend to hold off > on such deployments until the product has a little shake-down time and we > get a break to do upgrades. > > Personally, I'm not looking forward to 8 on the desktop in a lab > environment. One nitpick of my own: It's very difficult to log off, which is > something every 7-18 year old in our schools will have to do. While some > know that you can quickly find a logout with Ctrl-Alt-Del, most don't. Last, > most of the software run by our users aren't in the DCIM* interface. So > really, there isn't a feature that is yet pushing us to Win8 yet. > > I have seen start-button replacements, like Start8, but we like to go with > the Officially supported versions of things if we can. Thus, if Microsoft > makes it an option to stick people to the Desktop and give them a way to > launch programs/logoff, I'll give it another try. > > (* DCIM - Don't call it Metro) > > > --Matt Ross > Ephrata School District > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: David Lum > [mailto:[email protected]] > To: NT System Admin Issues > [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 > 13:07:38 -0800 > Subject: Window 8 on your PC > > > > Are you guys changing your Windows 8 UI to be more like Win7 or > > leaving it as-is and learning new tricks? > > David Lum > > Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM > > Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 > > > > > > ~ 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 > > ~ 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 > > > > > ~ 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 > ~ 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
