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Title: Windows 9 user experience
Post by: BizB on September 16, 2014, 07:38:36 AM

http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/15/windows-9-features/?ncid=rss_truncated

Summary: Tiles on the start menu, less W8, more W7, and multi-desktop (more W3.1)

Title: Re: Windows 9 user experience
Post by: hackess on September 16, 2014, 10:17:33 AM

Heh. It's starting to remind me of OSX and some flavors of Linux: notifications panel, multi-desktop, etc.

Title: Re: Windows 9 user experience
Post by: zorgon on September 16, 2014, 02:39:26 PM

tiles to the left of me, notification panel to the right, here I am

Title: Re: Windows 9 user experience
Post by: Demosthenes on September 16, 2014, 07:31:35 PM

... stuck in patent-encumbered proprietary software with dubious NSA-mandated security holes with you....

Title: Re: Windows 9 user experience
Post by: Chris on September 16, 2014, 08:24:41 PM

I'm viewing this while on a laptop running Windows XP. Ironic?

As usual, I'll wait until Windows 9 has been out for about... 2 years before I migrate over to it to make sure it's stable. Doesn't seem to look terribly promising right now, though.  :w:

Title: Re: Windows 9 user experience
Post by: zorgon on September 17, 2014, 08:42:22 AM

:galm: