"MCBastos" <myemail@example.invalid> wrote in message news:loydnsgrh5jlbalnnz2dnuvz_sudn...@mozilla.org... > Interviewed by CNN on 10/11/2012 11:27, Desiree told the world: > >> Now I am confused. I thought Win 8 was Metro or Desktop and when on >> Desktop >> you keep getting flipped into Metro when you don't want that. So, you >> have >> to do all sorts of third party fixes and tweaks to keep from being >> flipped >> to Metro which a desktop user wants to avoid completely, right? The real >> difference is what sort of monitor you have. I have no intention of >> buying a >> 24 Dell Ultrsharp that is touch screen! YUCK! You need Metro for >> touch...what else would you need it for? So, hardware that has a touch >> screen, some laptops and tablets and ultrabooks would require Metro >> ...everything else would be Desktop side. Right? >> >> Is there is special Tablet version of Win 8? > > The "tablet" version (more accurately called the "ARM CPU" version) is > called Windows RT. It is *only* Metro, and does not not support desktop > applications at all. > > I have tested Windows 8 Pro x64 in a brand-new Dell laptop (one which > came with Windows 7 and does not have a touchscreen, by the way); > generally speaking, the whole experience of using it for regular Windows > desktop stuff has been disappointing; the whole > switch-back-to-Metro-to-start-a-new-app is annoying. I didn't figure out > yet a convenient way to create desktop icons for applications, which > would help a lot -- it is possible to do it the "hard way", but I didn't > find something equivalent to right-mouse-drag-from-the-Start-Menu. > > But I had no problems running old apps on it; I even managed to install > MS Money 99 -- yes, a *fourteen-year-old* app written for *Windows 98*. > Basically, it happily accepted any application that Windows 7 could run. > System utilities are a different matter, of course. But I expect > Seamonkey will run fine in Windows 8 desktop. The Windows 8 specific > bugs somebody listed, from what I saw, are mostly related to setting up > convenient shortcuts and defining SM as a default application and > shouldn't keep it from working correctly.
If MS Money from '99 will run on it, I sure wish Word before 2007 would. I have MS Money for W98 but I want earlier version (non ribbon) of Word to run but have been told it will not. > > -- > MCBastos > > This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized > use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. > > -=-=- > ... Sent from my cyborg implant. > * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.13.2 * > Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
