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Now, why is it always full screen, even on large displays? My guess would be because the Start screen, like all Windows Store apps, is built on top of WinRT, which currently lacks certain things, like windowing capabilities. This is either something that will change as WinRT matures or something that won't if a windowing capability simply does not fit the design philosophy they are going for with WinRT. Quote:
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2012-11-14, 01:48 | Link #443 |
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Aye, there's simply no reason the UI can't be modular/swappable. The most appropriate UI for the hardware. Branding should be in style, fonts, icons, shapes, etc.
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2012-11-14, 05:14 | Link #446 |
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Sorry, I didn't mean it in the technical sense. Microsoft wants people to get used to the idea of the Start screen, whether they are on a touch device or not, because it plays an important role as part of the new Windows Store app experience.
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2012-11-14, 05:32 | Link #447 |
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I guess some of you guys dont understand what i mean by multitasking. basically everytime i want to open a app that is not on my desktop. i have to open fullscreen start screen. this is kinda annoying when you currently do something in back ground like watching video
which is the problem. no matter how good the response and speed of the startscreen. the UI just doesn't work on desktop
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2012-11-14, 10:44 | Link #450 |
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Pretty much, everyone who says that they can't multitask on the start screen are just pretty much nitpicking at this point. are people really telling me that they focus on the other things that's happening in the desktop while they're using the start Menu? Hello? your current task is to find an application on the start menu, not wallow and look at the desktop. Sorry, but I don't see people who use GNOME-Shell complain about the full screen launchers or the similar concept of moving the pointer to a hotspot, it comes out as hypocrisy really.
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2012-11-14, 12:10 | Link #452 |
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It's not a matter of optical perception. It's a matter of necessary mental focus and understanding of what it is you perceive. I can open 6 videos and put them in cascade while talking on the phone, that doesn't mean I am actively WATCHING them or even that I had the ability to watch them in the first place. Searching in Start menu is mainly an audiovisual task (yes it's audio, too, you read words, you cannot but pronounce them in your head), watching a video is a different audiovisual task (unless you have it on mute). Unless you have the brain of a genius or are an idiot savant, you cannot pay full attention to different tasks of the same type going on at the same time, you are bound to start losing relevant information when your focus shifts from one task to the other. Sure the video just MIGHT draw your attention away from the menu search if a stimulus manages to trigger your attention back, but just for the record, a brain's immediate processing ability is rather limited.
But just in case, the time it took you shifting to your start menu task isn't really that different from the time it took you to open the Start screen and type. The only thing you can't do with the Start Screen as opposed to the Start menu is leave the screen EXACTLY like the screenshot (ie have it ready but not use the application and go back to watching the video). Then again, why would anyone want to do that?
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You can say whatever you want in theory. but in practice I have no problem watching video while searching for another application using start menu. it certainly less distractive than using start screen
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2012-11-14, 14:32 | Link #455 | |
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well arguably this is just minor annoyance to me. but big enough for me to put it as cons of Win8.
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2012-11-14, 15:59 | Link #456 |
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Yes, and they're problems. People who work for a living on their computers are finding this UI intrusive. Consumers may be happy as mudlarks. Having worked professionally with Microsoft since the late 80s I still find their "one size forced on all" mindset almost idiotic. Its lazy marketeering over providing choices.
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2012-11-21, 15:48 | Link #457 |
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Microsoft hands Windows 8 Pro to pirates by mistake:
"For what is presumably a limited period, it's possible to just download Windows 8 keys directly from Microsoft -- keys that activate the Pro version of Microsoft's brand new OS." See: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-575...es-by-mistake/ |
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