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I had to laugh when I saw this article because I had the same problem when I first installed the Windows 8 preview. It took me at least 5 minutes of digging around to find the power button (it is in the settings menu).
 
Alt+F4 will also give you a shutdown dialog if the desktop has focus. I find Windows 8 frustrating.
 
I agree - that was a really bad idea. Took me a fair bit of digging before I found this as well.
 
Ugh.

Could we please rename this "Windows 7 Tablet Edition" and go back to the drawing board for Windows 8?
 
Geesh, I was reading the linked article and came across a term I really dislike: Charms bar. WTF? MS is a major employer with thousands(?) of very bright people employed. "Charms" is the best they can come up with?

Back to topic, still don't like the removal of the Start button, still don't like the long way of turning off the PC. Maybe I'll just hit the computer's power button.
 
stevedave said:
Shutting computers down was so windows 7.
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Not up here in NW FL, too much bad weather and our "wonderful" power company sucks it hard stability-wise. Yes, a UPS would fix the issue, but it seems lots of people here don't believe in them (or can afford them, whatever the case) or keep their batteries up to date.
 
Steve said:
I had to laugh when I saw this article because I had the same problem when I first installed the Windows 8 preview. It took me at least 5 minutes of digging around to find the power button (it is in the settings menu[/I]).
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Can you imagine this happening in a non techy corporate environment. MS must have something up their sleeves for that environment. I can see business costs going sky high for the short term with all the retraining.
 
You guys do know that simply pressing the power button on your computer also powers down the OS, right?

(not talking about holding it for 4 seconds to force a power off)
 
I played with Win8 thing last year sometime. Friggin hate shit on my desktop. The metro UI isn't designed for real computers, IMO. It may be okay for computerized devices such as a tablet, but this isn't going on anything I have to drive with a mouse.
 
MS wants to treat your desktop pc as a phone. Screen just goes off. Only time you shut down is if it locks up or gets funky. What a freaking joke.They want an OS that is poor to OK for all hardware, yet great at nothing...
 
helpfile

Its just something new, try it, if it doesn't work out for you, you can go back to windows 7, that's what i'll do.
 
I said this in the discussion about the release of the preview yesterday......

This W8 is a big bag of fail. Why is this intentionally designed to hide things that are major functional aspects of the OS, let alone the simple stuff like the off button, the control panel......but notice how internet explorer is right there front and center......

and that "metro" fucking thing"........

I guess all the cool kids have "apps".......I hate that shit cluttering up my desktop.......

This is really fucked up.:eek:

Windows Tablet Edition, indeed.
 
Shago said:
helpfile

Its just something new, try it, if it doesn't work out for you, you can go back to windows 7, that's what i'll do.
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Speak up, now is the time to be heard for opinions/changes...I think MS is going to take feedback very carefully this time since it's so radical.
 
notarat said:
You guys do know that simply pressing the power button on your computer also powers down the OS, right?

(not talking about holding it for 4 seconds to force a power off)
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Oddly enough - no. For Windows 8 the standard pressing the power button did not initiate a shut down. Might need to find your way to the old control panel, go into power options and manually configure it to, but a key program for me crashed immediately upon trying to load (even with a mixture of compatibility setting attempts) so I just went back to Windows 7 rather than start configuring Windows 8 the way I'd like it only to have to use Windows 7 anyway.
 
Making the desktop like the phone OS? isn't that what people are clamoring for a la the iOS? what Apple is doing can't be wrong can it?
 
fps4ever said:
MS wants to treat your desktop pc as a phone. Screen just goes off. Only time you shut down is if it locks up or gets funky. What a freaking joke.
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I guess they figure that if they can't sell you a phone, they'll sell you the phone in the thing they can sell.
 
fps4ever said:
Speak up, now is the time to be heard for opinions/changes...I think MS is going to take feedback very carefully this time since it's so radical.
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Yes, MS is well known for taking into account customer feedback.

Oh wait...
 
Granted, I haven't used it, but from everything I've seen thus far I absolutely hate where MS is going with this.
No interest in this at all.
 
I don't like how companies are trying to convince/force me not to shut down my PC. I don't care if the power usage of a PC in sleep mode is marginal... it's still higher than when it is off and that matters to me.
 
I see a new round of I'm a Mac vs PC commercials....

I guess we will see a new trend in the modding forum of people modding their monitors into phones for on the go.
 
Well this is their beta release cycle, same as Win Me and Win Vista, their going to rely heavily on us to report broken features issues.
 
stevejg61 said:
Making the desktop like the phone OS? isn't that what people are clamoring for a la the iOS? what Apple is doing can't be wrong can it?
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Oh don't worry, all the apple forums are full of plenty of people bitching about it there too. I really don't get the "your phone on your desk" bit, but both apple and MS are trying to do it.

(as someone else posted with OSX it's completely optional...so far lol)
 
Shago said:
helpfile

Its just something new, try it, if it doesn't work out for you, you can go back to windows 7, that's what i'll do.
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Best post in this entire thread.

Hitting the power button on every PC I have ever built/used save for like 10% of them shut down the system perfectly fine. While humorous , it's no big deal if you have to go an extra click seeing as you can always use keyboard commands.
 
Rami100735 said:
Well this is their beta release cycle, same as Win Me and Win Vista, their going to rely heavily on us to report broken features issues.
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Instead of voicing our concerns, we should just silently feel bad for ourselves and freak out when nothing changes.
 
How do you properly close one of the apps (i.e. Videos, Music, Games)? I can't figure it out, instead I've been hitting Alt+F4 to kill it.
 
Supposedly you can grab the top edge and pull it down to the bottom edge. Whether this closes the app I don't know: there isn't any kind of visual cue to indicate that's what actually happens.
 
magoo said:
I said this in the discussion about the release of the preview yesterday......

This W8 is a big bag of fail. Why is this intentionally designed to hide things that are major functional aspects of the OS, let alone the simple stuff like the off button, the control panel......but notice how internet explorer is right there front and center......

and that "metro" fucking thing"........

I guess all the cool kids have "apps".......I hate that shit cluttering up my desktop.......

This is really fucked up.:eek:

Windows Tablet Edition, indeed.
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I was just like you when I saw pics of Win8. Then I tried it out the other day. It's not bad, it could be better, but not as bad as I thought.
Metro is NOT the desktop. You still have the desktop. Granted, I would love to have the old Start Menu back, and I'm sure someone will find a hack if its left out, but I can live with what i see now.
Now "apps" on the other hand, FUCK "apps"! We call them programs.
Imagine if every program in The Matrix or TRON was called an "app". LOL
 
Because the power function is obviously a system setting, duh!
</sarcasm>

Microsoft, I have no problems with you removing the start button and/or doing something new with the UI, but did you really have to hide useful functions of the OS in obscure locations? Did you really have to create an "OMFG HUGE" launcher that essentially reduces my 27" IPS monitor's native resolution to 800x600?
 
This is very typical MS -- only every OTHER os is decent -- W95, but not W98, WXP but not WVista, W7 but not W8
 
Microsoft observes smartphone market is the future

Light goes off in MS's head

Step 1: Make desktop OS with a phone GUI. Since we dominate the OS market, this will force our GUI onto everyone.
Step 2: Users will now buy MS based smartphones and tablets because of desktop GUI familiarity
Step 3: Rule the world!
 
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