Customers Use Software From Many Vendors
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This is such an important revelation that Microsoft's blog post not only mentions it but has to italicise it.
Basically, Microsoft has just discovered that people don't use Windows the way they thought they would, and now need to introduce more crap in Win8x to handle this in the enterprise, a la "Apportals"
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Bad Ideas thread?
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Well, I thought about that, but the core premise that they finally realised isn't a bad idea, and this felt more like a WTF rather than just a merely bad idea, since this is The Future™ of Windows - bearing in mind their core business is the enterprise, not the consumer user.
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I like the way they capitalize Modern Windows 8 Apps. Not being a Windows user, I have to wonder: are there also Obsolete Windows 8 Apps, Traditional Windows 8 Apps or Old-Fashioned Windows 8 Apps?
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Lᴇɢᴀᴄʏ Wɪɴᴅᴏᴡꜱ 8 Aᴘᴘꜱ!
Ugh, the small-caps in this font aren't quite right… Let's try with <small> abuse.
LEGACY WINDOWS 8 APPS
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"People are complaining they can't find their shit in our tiles! Solution: add more tiles!"
Dunno. Maybe it's not that bad as it reads. But it sure sounds like that to me when reading the article. Especially when they explicitly said that yes, you can nest them.
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The new UI in Windows 8 was called Metro but they had to rename it due to trademarks or something, so now that's Modern.
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Ah. I must have missed that they renamed it — all I knew was that the UI was called Metro, so I didn’t make the connection “Modern” = “colored tiles”. I mean, wasn’t there [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondriaan]a painter who did that already in the 1920s[/url]?
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Yep, a German company threatened to sue MicroSoft for using their name.
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Well, yeah, so I suspect that they named it after Modernism the art movement, though Mondrian was more of a neoplasticist.
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Well I'm now going to create one that works exactly the same but uses hexagons and call it "Hip".
Filed under: I think you might be right, but I'm too cautious to give them that much credit
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I want to see you make one with Penrose tiles.