If Windows is Updated, Only Windows Users Will Have Updated Windows
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In any case, you're still 2 fucking versions behind. Upgrade your shit man.
Even if Win10 doesn't do anything new that is worth upgrading for? Do you upgrade just for the sake of upgrading?
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Even if Win10 doesn't do anything new that is worth upgrading for?
How would you even know?
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How would you even know?
You would wish that your current OS would do something that it cannot and find out that Win10 would.
Win8/8.1 was not a useful upgrade, so now they have to give the upgrades away in order to get people to do so.
FWIW, I upgraded my laptop to Win10 and I am pretty meh about it.
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You would wish that your current OS would do something that it cannot and find out that Win10 would.
Ok; so what is it you "wish" your current OS would do?
Personally, I'm fine with the hundreds of small incremental improvements, and when I have to use Windows 7 at work it feels like booting up an antique.
Win8/8.1 was not a useful upgrade, so now they have to give the upgrades away in order to get people to do so.
Uh. Wha? Do you have a cite for that, or are you just ass-pulling it?
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and when I have to use Windows 7 at work it feels like booting up an antique.
Uh. Wha? Do you have a cite for that, or are you just ass-pulling it?
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Uh. Wha? Do you have a cite for that, or are you just ass-pulling it?
I don't need a cite because I am describing my mental state ("it feels like") and not writing the sentence as if it were an established fact.
Congratulations, at this rate, you'll pass that 3rd grader reading comprehension test in no time at all!
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Uh. Wha? Do you have a cite for that, or are you just ass-pulling it?
Not a cite, but following logic to its conclusion.
Upgrades to Win8/8.1 were pretty much non-existent, and currently there are roughly equivalent numbers of people on Win8/8.1 as are on XP.
Businesses generally rejected 8/8.1. Literally none of my customers wanted it, and we have had to keep ordering special builds of laptops and desktops with Win7 due to none of them wanting it. Even if they had to wait 6 weeks, they would rather wait than deal with 8/8.1.
Now, they release a free, but time-limited upgrade to latest version. Why would they do that except to bolster market share? If it were free, but not time-limited, I would not come to that conclusion, but market adoption of latest MS OS versions has been shit because no one wanted it.
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You would wish that your current OS would do something that it cannot and find out that Win10 would.
Virtual desktops?
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Virtual desktops?
Which are shit as compared to the Mac versions. Also, I cannot put a full-screen RDP session on a virtual desktop and hotkey switch between them. Full screen locks me in to the RDP session. RDP on a Mac is actually more productive when on a single screen than it is on any MS OS, and that is shockingly tragic.
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The virtual desktops on the current version of OSX are fucking superb. Windows needs to make them work like that.
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ITS NOT A REAL FEATURE OF THE NEW VERSION BECAUSE SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT DOES IT BETTER!
Sorry?
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Are you unable to read? Their implementation of virtual desktops is rubbish as compared to the way that other OS's do it. So much so that after getting used to virtual desktops on Mac, the MS implementation of it seems:
it feels like
booting upan antique
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Why would they do that except to bolster market share?
To promote their app store, which creates greater revenues with fewer support costs than OS sales?
Same reason Apple does.
I don't know why you'd need to add on some silly conspiracy theory to the far and away most sensible explanation.
Are you unable to read? Their implementation of virtual desktops is rubbish as compared to the way that other OS's do it. So much so that after getting used to virtual desktops on Mac, the MS implementation of it seems:
Right; but you're loving Windows 7.
So given the choice between virtual desktops that aren't quite as good, and nothing, you've chosen nothing?
Yet you're sitting here telling us virtual desktops are a feature you covet.
So... which is it? Your brain is contradicting itself. Either you like the feature, and therefore would want to switch to an OS with it, or you don't and it doesn't matter how good Windows 10's implementation is.
Figure out what the fuck you want and get back to us.
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I don't need a cite because I am describing my mental state
So was @Polygeekery. Oh, you mean you meant the second half of the sentence? Fuck dude, I'm not telepathic here. SAY WHAT YOU MEAN
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The virtual desktops on the current version of OSX are fucking superb. Windows needs to make them work like that.
Damn right they are. Three-finger swipe, even from a full-screen RDP session and I can easily switch between them. MS version is rubbish by comparison.
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Either you like the feature, and therefore would want to switch to an OS with it
I like having a car also, but if it were a Ford Fusion I would still bitch about it because it is a hunk of shit.
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Irrelevant. It is still a feature previous versions didn't have. Ergo, you have still failed.
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I like having a car also, but if it were a Ford Fusion I would still bitch about it because it is a hunk of shit.
What the fuck does that have to do with anything?
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Either you like the feature, and therefore would want to switch to an OS with it
Ergo, it is still shit.
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What the fuck does that have to do with anything?
I chose that just to annoy you basically, due to me hating your car also.
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Three finger swipe seems to be Alt+Tab on Windows 10 (which might be the trackpad drivers, to be fair) and it disappoints me whenever I use it out of habit.
It's not just Windows 10 at fault here - I've never used an OS which does virtual desktops as well as the current version of OSX. All it needs now is the window "snap" feature from Windows 7 and it won't ever get any better.
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You haven't even seen my car.
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In rat boy's defense he is actually describing a personal feeling so he doesn't need to cite his shit
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Even if they had to wait 6 weeks, they would rather wait than deal with 8/8.1.
In this case your customers are stupid.
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Keep reading.
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What the fuck does that have to do with anything?
Why? Backlash against Win8/8.1 was pretty bad and pretty universal.
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You're just typing gibberish for the sake of it at this point. I'm out.
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I did, and as far as that one point, I still feel the same way.
Even though you were wrong about what I was talking about?
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You're just typing gibberish for the sake of it at this point. I'm out.
So...you think that the populace in general loved Windows 8/8.1? Fuck no. They hated it, and it did nothing that anyone wanted or needed it to do.
Now they have virtual desktops, but when you have used a Mac, the virtual desktops on Windows just seem clunky and like an also ran.
Filed under: Everything above is a feeling and therefore completely unassailable and unimpeachable.
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Even though you were wrong about what I was talking about?
I was talking about what he was talking about. I feel roughly the same way: that when I have to use a Windows 7 machine I might as well be on Windows 3.1.
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and it did nothing that anyone wanted or needed it to do.
LOL. Here's your wooden shoes to throw into the machinery.
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Name one reason the average office worker would want or need Win8/8.1. Just one reason.
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To promote their app store, which creates greater revenues with fewer support costs than OS sales?
Then why didn't that work with Windows 8/8.1? Why were people wanting to stick with Win7?
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Name one reason the average office worker would want or need Win8/8.1. Just one reason.
Did the timer coalescing happen in 8 or 7? I can't remember and CBA to look, but I am pretty sure it was 8, and that's supposed to extend battery life.
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and that's supposed to extend battery life.
And that is a big boon for desktops...how?
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And that is a big boon for desktops...how?
You asked for one reason. You didn't ask for justification. However: maybe you weren't aware of this but a lot more people use laptops these days than used to.
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And very damned few of them use them untethered. They get used like portable desktops. Plugged in most of the time.
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And very damned few of them use them untethered. They get used like portable desktops. Plugged in most of the time.
So? Once again, you asked for a reason, not justification. I gave you a reason. It's not my problem if you don't like it.
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Damn right they are. Three-finger swipe, even from a full-screen RDP session and I can easily switch between them.
Yes, and how does that work when you don't have a touch screen?
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It works just fine. My Mac is not touchscreen...
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Now they have virtual desktops, but when you have used a Mac, the virtual desktops on Windows just seem clunky and like an also ran.
How many Windows users have used a Mac? How many Windows users have used a Mac in the last 5 years?
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Then why didn't that work with Windows 8/8.1? Why were people wanting to stick with Win7?
I didn't switch to 8/8.1 because it was felt too touch-oriented. When I'm using a desktop, I want something that feels like it is designed for a mouse and keyboard, not for a touch interface. What works for a tablet might work fine on XBox, but it doesn't necessarily translate well to a desktop (the reverse is also true).
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You asked for one reason. You didn't ask for justification. However: maybe you weren't aware of this but a lot more people use laptops these days than used to.
My company has about 300 employees. There are less than 30 laptops. Everyone has access to a desktop.
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It works just fine. My Mac is not touchscreen...
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I was looking for something a bit more descriptive, as "three finger swipe" is a touch gesture.
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I never really understood that position. It was faster, and had more features. It's easier for me to get to things by searching in 8 than in 7. I used 8, not even 8.1, on a desktop from release until 10, and never had these "OMG UNUSUABLE DIE IN A FIRE!" moments everyone keeps telling me about.
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My company has about 300 employees. There are less than 30 laptops. Everyone has access to a desktop.
Earlier this year, of the 8 people in my office, only two used desktops.
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"OMG UNUSUABLE DIE IN A FIRE!"
There's a solid case to be made that a touchscreen monitor on a desktop is less than totally useful. There are legitimate complaints to be made about the start screen. However, there are a number of ways the screen is better than the start menu.
I've been using Windows since 3.1. Every time there's a substantial UI change--basically, 95, XP, Vista, and 8--a lot of people come screaming out of the woodwork with complaints that boil down to IT IS DIFFERENT AND I DONT LIKE CHANGE SO I WILL NOT SEE IF THE CHANGE IS AN IMPROVEMENT.
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I was looking for something a bit more descriptive, as "three finger swipe" is a touch gesture.
Three finger swipe on the touchpad. Probably my second most used gesture. #1 would probably be 2 finger swipe left or right in a browser goes forward and back.