Windows 8.1 to bring back familiar parts of Windows 7
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MasterBash
If you’re not familiar with keyboard shortcuts—or you’d like to see a list of shortcuts in one place—see the bigger list of keyboard shortcuts.
Straight from the website. Whoopie doo. Its not under the "new", but if you are not aware of a shortcut, you might want to read them all.
sapo_joe
Finally a new-usable windows!
If it has a proper desktop experience, I'll be glad to upgrade... For now, Windows 7 X64 for me!
lucidus
I'll believe it when I see it.
Undying
Well i think i will stay with w7 x64 untill something really new comes out, dont wanna bother with this.
Kaleid
I feel 8.1 could be worth purchasing, as long as it comes for not more than 40 bucks.
Loobyluggs
Probably this^^
I have no issues with the Metro startup personally, as I have it hooked up to my online stuffs like email and messenger, so I'm go to go from boot.
Although it wasn't that way to begin with, as I didn't know to hook anything up to it, or even how to hook anything up, or that hooking up was an option worth exploring.
Guess this is part of the perceived problem people have: it's Windows Jim, but not as we know it.
As for 8.1, we need more information - but my gut tells me the Windows team were asked to create something for every device out there, and I think they did exactly what they were asked to do.
What M$ should have done with all of that $ is develop a brand new OS that is superlite and superfast, and any legacy apps pre-Windows 8 should have run in virtual mode.
Just my opinion, pay no mind.
sykozis
Unless it's forced through Windows Update.....I'm not touching it. I'm perfectly happy with Windows8 the way it is....
airbud7
Windows 8 is ugly, (plain-looking) But so am I 🙂
The General
Windows XP = fast, but unstable
Windows Vista = Pretty , even look better than Windows 7
Windows 7 = Perfect, but doesn't look as good like Vista
Windows 8 = No performance difference in games compared to Vista or Win7, with a crappy tablet = Why bother.
warlord
windows 8 gaming it IS faster, windows 8.1 it WILL be even faster... 🙂 :banana:
Noisiv
move mouse to lower left corner, right click, select Computer Managment and left click it.
phase 3 http://bravellir.com/gallery/d/6416-1/money.gif
airbud7
Yea^...What he said :deflate:
LesserHellspawn
Vista being oh so pretty was one thing that broke it. It just was too ressource heavy. That was far more relevant 5 years ago with the machines back in that day, than it is with the current generation. That reminded me of Windows ME. ME had so many new assistants, wizards and whatnot which used system resources. A freshly booted ME was already out of 50 % user resources. Start two heavy programs, and crash. The other thing was compatibility. Win 7 is more compatible to older programs than Vista was.
Now I wonder how they will sell Win 8.1
Probably the best option would be to offer a free upgrade to Win 8 and again cheap upgrades for Vista/7. That would basically be a complete startover, burying Win 8. Time will tell if MS are just so panicked by the Win 8 fail that they will do just that or not.
Norvekh
Hopefully 8.1 is more stable than 8 too. I had more system crashes with 8 than I had with Vista and they completely disappear when using 7. Windows 8 is utterly psychotic, constantly jumping between two completely different interfaces that function completely differently.
deltatux
This is the problem with closed source software, their test groups might like it, but the sample size is too small to be accurate even if they have thousands of testers during their interface development. At least with open source, if there's an issue, developers can either quickly adapt or just branch the code off (look at GNOME, it got bifurcated into Cinnamon and Unity ... heck, GNOME2 was reincarnated as MATE).
As for Windows 8, like Vista SP1, I don't have any problems with it. It could be just that I've been very malleable when it comes to user interfaces since I'm used to using a vast variety of them as I run Windows, MacOS X, KDE, Unity, Cinnamon quite frequently. However, not gonna lie, I would really like if the original Windows UI came back because it's too tablet centric. Microsoft should have detected if the system had a touch screen or not and only activate Metro's Start Screen if a touch screen was detected.
Heck, with this type of change, Windows 8.1 should be called Windows 9 so it won't confuse end users. Since the Windows 8 name has been tainted, they should just go for Windows 9. Just like Vista was tainted, and even though Microsoft fixed Vista's shortcomings in SP1 and SP2, tons of people still stayed away.
deltatux
BLEH!
This
Extraordinary
No Sinofsky = Good Windows
Sinofsky = Ridiculous Windows
Now, Sinofsky Gone = MS removing retarded changes to Windows
Go figure
buddybd
user removed the video because he made mistakes. here's the new one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OgW618CnKQ
Denial
He also did Windows 7 and Office 2007/2003/XP so I'm not sure what you're getting at. Also the chick in charge now was the lead designer behind Metro + Ribbon UI in 2007. So obviously things aren't as black and white as you put it.
I also want to point out that I find it funny that people keep coming back to "lack of bill gates" being the reason why the company is going this route. He's been a huge proponent of natural input for decades now. He was also largely involved in making the decision on whether to do a one off product like 360 with the courier or going with a dual solution like Windows 8. He ultimately chose 8.
Ultimately I think Windows 8 is a pretty decent product. It brings some neat changes to traditional desktop users and makes for a pretty awesome tablet experience. They just need to continue refining the interface and making major overhauls where necessary.
pimp_gimp
Hopefully the next build leak will show what they've done restoring the start button, and making the UI more keyboard and mouse friendly.
