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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
PostPosted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 10:56 
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A good OS should be practically invisible. When you notice it, it's probably doing something wrong.

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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A good OS should be practically invisible. When you notice it, it's probably doing something wrong.

Yet here we are, talking about Windows once again.

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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Well, it is a Windows' thread


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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Can we all at least agree that putting an apostrophe at the end of an acronym ending with an S is a crime against humanity?

OS' indeed.


Heh, I was just about to suggest that very version; I like the weird brevity of it. Also, I feel validated that even my punctuation instinct manages to massively piss you off.

It doesn't even make any sense.


It does, it's the same use of an apostrophe as in contractions like "isn't" or "doesn't". The apostrophe is standing in place of the extra 's' so you don't have to write the ugly "OSs".


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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Well, it is a Windows' thread

Even worse, a whole thread dedicated to something that ought to be invisible...

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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It does, it's the same use of an apostrophe as in contractions like "isn't" or "doesn't". The apostrophe is standing in place of the extra 's' so you don't have to write the ugly "OSs".

LOL WHUT

It's used to denote possession, not a contraction! It would be instead of "OS's", if anything. But it's shit and clunky. "OS's" is so much nicer. I also hate it when people put "James'" instead of "James's", for example.

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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It does, it's the same use of an apostrophe as in contractions like "isn't" or "doesn't". The apostrophe is standing in place of the extra 's' so you don't have to write the ugly "OSs".

LOL WHUT

It's used to denote possession, not a contraction! It would be instead of "OS's", if anything. But it's shit and clunky. "OS's" is so much nicer. I also hate it when people put "James'" instead of "James's", for example.


Yeah, fair enough, I've totally misunderstood that useage of apostrophes. I'd vote for just OSs then; OSes looks weird and the 'e' is needless.


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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Wish I'd never asked the bloody question now. >:|

As you were...

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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Wish I'd never asked the bloody question now. >:|

As you were...


Regardless of what came after, you got two good answers within an hour of your post; how is that not a result for you?


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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Wish I'd never asked the bloody question now. >:|

As you were...


Regardless of what came after, you got two good answers within an hour of your post; how is that not a result for you?


Oh don't drag me into your den of snark... :kiss:

I believe I left a thank you message on the first page sir.

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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'ere people.

I like Outlook. Y'know, the thing that everyone uses at work? What I don't like is using Outlook on Windows 8 and then I click on an email link in someone's email and Window's kicks me out of Outlook and opens the email in Windows own gayboy email client thing.

What's that about and how'd I stop it doing that sheeet.

I've tried a bloody google search but using the words Windows/Outlook brings up so much rubbish that's I'm struggling to define my actual problem so I get an answer to my sodding problem. As the above will attest!


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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Give this a shot:

http://community.adxstudio.com/blogs/sh ... il-client/


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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Goddamn you are sexy. Worked a frickin' treat.

One of these days I will pay you guy's back with knowledge that is held in my face box.


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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Or by coming to the Cottage5 and helping me FUCK GAZCHAP UP.

That's a thing now.

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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Did I mention that I swapped to 8.1 a month or so ago?
Well, I did.

It's fairly good. By which I mean: once I've logged in and loaded up my normal apps, I don't really notice it.

Cost about £30, too.

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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I upgraded to 8.1 too. The only thing I have noticed is a start button and the search is slightly different.

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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I stuck ClassicShell on the PC as soon as I installed Windows 8.1 and it's now completely tolerable.

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That's a thing now.

Of course, if last year's poker game is anything to go by, I'm quite capable of fucking myself up, thankyouverymuch.


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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And, of course, every time I tried to FUCK YOU UP, you won.

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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I stuck ClassicShell on the PC as soon as I installed Windows 8.1 and it's now completely tolerable.


I stuck ClassicShell on as soon as you told me to and it's now completely tolerable.

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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I am the only one that seems to like Windows 8.x

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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I am the only one that seems to like Windows 8.x

Let me put it this way, Windows 8.1 is the version of Windows I have hated the least.


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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I am the only one that seems to like Windows 8.x

Let me put it this way, Windows 8.1 is the version of Windows I have hated the least.

Damning it with faint praise there.

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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I use a Mac now and threw my PC in the big pile at the tip and now I am a hipster and practically Jesus.

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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I use a Mac now and threw my PC in the big pile at the tip and now I am a hipster and practically Jesus.


I had a mental image of you stood on the planks above the skip, bare chested, silhoutted against the sky by lightening, hair flying in the wind as the monitor draws a near perfect parabola and a gutteral roars rises above the rising gale. Then I realsied that was more than a little bit gay.

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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I use a Mac now and threw my PC in the big pile at the tip and now I am a hipster and practically Jesus.


I had a mental image of you stood on the planks above the skip, bare chested, silhoutted against the sky by lightening, hair flying in the wind as the monitor draws a near perfect parabola and a gutteral roars rises above the rising gale. Then I realsied that was more than a little bit gay.

Apart from the bit where a guy in a high vis jacket took it off me before that could happen that's exactly what happened.

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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KovacsC wrote:
I am the only one that seems to like Windows 8.x


Nope. I think that it's absolutely fine and works perfectly.


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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Same. I'm cheating though.


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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KovacsC wrote:
I am the only one that seems to like Windows 8.x


I don't actually have any problems with Windows 8 but I liked Windows ME :p

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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We're getting a right little Windows 8 club on the go here. See? It's not the devil after all.

Someone should change the topic header.


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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I don't actually have any problems with Windows 8 but I liked Windows ME :p

8)

BeEx - is that grounds to dump someone? ;)


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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A friend was rummaging through my DVD collection and pulled out a disc in a plain wrapper that was hidden behind some others.

'What's this?' she asked.

A bit embarrassed, I meekly admitted the truth.

'Windows Vista'


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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GazChap wrote:
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I don't actually have any problems with Windows 8 but I liked Windows ME :p

8)

BeEx - is that grounds to dump someone? ;)

No, but not watching Firefly is.

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I don't actually have any problems with Windows 8 but I liked Windows ME :p

8)

BeEx - is that grounds to dump someone? ;)

No, but not watching Firefly is.

I walked past this place last weekend and thought of you.


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I don't actually have any problems with Windows 8 but I liked Windows ME :p

8)

BeEx - is that grounds to dump someone? ;)

No, but not watching Firefly is.

I walked past this place last weekend and thought of you.


Grim..'s a stripper?

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Grim...'s the stripper.

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Grim...'s the stripper.


<throws six dollars>

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/2683725/ ... o-far.html

Windows 9 is (probably) getting the proper start menu back, and the charms bullshit is reducing.

Hardly a surprise, really.


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Windows 8, so good they're making Windows 9 like Windows 7.

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There's a lot of guess work in that article isn't there? Windows 8.1 is fine and it's very easy to get it to work exactly like Windows 7 if you're that way inclined.


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I quite like the way windows 8/8.1 did things, saying that I never really used the metro screen for anything other than for searching.

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Windows 9 is now called Windows 10.


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Windows 9 is now called Windows 10.


Which surely means they'll be hit with the even-number crappiness and will have two flops in a row.


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What will Windows 10 be called?

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What will Windows 10 be called?


Windows Vi5ta


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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What will Windows 10 be called?


Windows 11 obviously... because it'll be louder than 10.


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 8 is The Devil
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Interesting, I was expecting "Windows 9" but 10 is a surprise

Shows they need to put more distance between this and Windows 8 than they needed to for Vista\Windows 7

So why not use an extra number!

For the last 15 years I've run MS beta OS for months before the final release, I still only have Windows 8 on a surface pro, the rest of my home devices are Windows 7. Try as I might I just don't like it, and I do make an effort, every 2 or 3 months I chastise myself for not using the latest OS whilst working in IT, so stick it on a laptop only to do fuck all with it


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