Leaked Build of Windows 9 Shows Start Menu Return 346
Billly Gates writes A leaked alpha of Windows 9 has been brewing on the internet. Today a screenshot shows what MS showed us at BUILD which includes a start menu with additional tiny tiles for things like people, calendar, pc settings, and news etc. "The new hybridized Start menu appears to be part of build 9788, which was compiled on July 4. While no one seems to have leaked the ISOs for build 9788 yet, the general consensus seems to be that the build does indeed exist somewhere at Microsoft — and that it might also feature Windows NT kernel version 6.4 (i.e. the complete version number is 6.4.9788). The screenshots show a Windows 8.1 Pro watermark, but this isn’t unusual for a very early alpha of a new build of Windows. If this really is the next version of the Windows NT kernel, then we’re most likely looking at an early build of Windows 9 (Threshold) rather than Windows 8.2."
Fuck Tiles! (Score:5, Insightful)
I hate morons (Score:4, Insightful)
If you look at some of the comments on that page, you get gems like the guy asking if the start button was the only reason someone didn't get Win8.
Sure, you can hack the OS to get a free start button, but that's not the point. You do NOT reward bad behavior, or the companies will never learn.
Chick-Fil-A won't sell you a sandwich without pickles? You're ok just pulling the pickles off? That's stupid. You complain to the manager to get the sandwich made correctly. If you never speak up, then they won't know what they're doing wrong.
The goal of any company SHOULD be to please their customers while making a tidy profit. The problem is that today's companies seem to be all about making an obscene profit while...wait...we have customers? Oh right. Our "customers" are the people who pay us to provide the data we mine from the people who pay us to use our products that don't do what they want them to.
oh, please, it's never "leaked" (Score:5, Insightful)
IOW, yet another "Slashvertisement."
Re:Microsoft craps its pants (Score:3, Insightful)
2015 will be year of the Linux Desktop!
Guess you have not been paying attention, chromebooks are here and occupying all the top slots and rating on Amazon, making a killing in schools, and have a slew of new models out now, and not have Android compatibility...you know the OS that put iOS and windows in the ground...they even look like a mackbook air *winks*.
GNU/Linux continues to do very nicely as well.
So where are your solid numbers (Amazon ratings and sales ranks don't specify models sold) ? And please let me know if I can use my Chromebook offline on my airplaine. Sorry, no way a Chromebook is replacing my Macbook anytime - I see you can't even view the movies you buy on the Google Play store offline [1] (ie, in an airplane - no that GoGo streaming is not allowed for movies) - what use is that?
[1] https://productforums.google.c... [google.com]
Re:Microsoft is wasting people's time (Score:4, Insightful)
My desktop is connected to two large flatscreens ( 60" and a 42" LCDs ) , I have two browsers open , multiple tabs , downloading with 3 instances of BNR2 , watching TV through a tuner card on one screen , lying back on the couch with a USB extender on the mouse and a wireless keyboard , allowing me to cycle between different programs and tabs with ease , all running effortlessly thanks to Win 8.1 and an I7 CPU , 5 TeraBytes of hard drive storage allowing me to store and replay multiple video and audio files.....and some retarded kid thinks I should replace this setup with a tiny screened finger smudged tablet.
Wow.Some people really are sheep.We dinosaurs aren't going extinct any time soon.
Re:Fuck Tiles! (Score:5, Insightful)
Ah yes, the 'hater' fallacy. If you don't agree with the current trend, you must hate all change.
All that's needed is a simple editable menu for application links. It's not that hard.
How is searching for tiles easier than searching a list in the menu? If you hated doing it in the start menu, you should hate doing it with the tiles, with all that extra eye panning and scrolling. As far as text search goes, users shouldn't need it because your menu is neat and orderly and easy to read. Sticking a search box onto widgets just says loudly and clearly that the design has failed.
If all you want is one click access, add some shortcuts to the shortcut bar...oh right, they broke that too.
Re:Microsoft is wasting people's time (Score:5, Insightful)
Both my desktop computer AND my laptop have one thing in common: neither of them is a tablet. And Windows 8 as is is ONLY oriented towards tablets.
A lightweight OS oriented in low power usage and touch-based controls, which just happens to still maintain some sort of classic experience because they couldn't be arsed to remove it the way they removed other perfectly functional features, is not the OS I want to use.
Windows 9 may or may not be good enough to get into my computers. We'll see.
Is it a hybrid menu out of pure ego and hostility? (Score:4, Insightful)
The Metro-ization of Windows has failed badly. You don't even need to look at Netcraft to prove it.
So why insist on a hybrid Start menu? Is this just simply the result of some assholes who simply refuse to admit their idea sucked greasy balls and by God they're going to fucking jam it down some throats anyway?
I haven't used a pure Win 8 device (phone or tablet) in its native mode so I'm withholding personal judgement on it that mode. It gets reasonable reviews (or at least the phone does) from people who have used it like that, but nobody I know is super enthusiastic about it from a desktop perspective at all. Nobody.
You would have think with Ballmer's exit SOMEBODY at Microsoft might have been willing to say "we shouldn't metro-ize the desktop. They really don't like it."
Re:Microsoft is wasting people's time (Score:4, Insightful)
Either you know full-well that there exist a nontrivial number of people who can't wrap their head around what to do when their iPad tells them an OS update is available, if you're so socially inept that you live in a fantasy world where everyone else is just like you.
No, you simply have an over-inflated opinion of yourself and those you deem "technically capable" because the numbers don't lie, those who aren't capable of updating are the extreme minority [cnet.com].
You don't need to perpetuate the idiotic falsehood that only socially awkward people know what to do when their device says an update is available, if you need to feel superior in that manner to justify your social awkwardness that's your problem but that perception is not reality, there was 25-35% adoption [techcrunch.com] of iOS7 in one day for god sake.
Re:Microsoft is wasting people's time (Score:4, Insightful)
Kindly point us to your magical gaming laptop that handles graphics and games "better than most gaming desktops". Quite a few of us are looking for such a machine, and sadly it does not exist yet.