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Bah, doesn't install under VirtualBox.

Yes it does - you just need to try harder ;)


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jonbwfc wrote:
Bah, doesn't install under VirtualBox.

Yes it does - you just need to try harder ;)

Yeah, main problem is the machine I was trying it on has a locked bios (work machine y'see) so if the relevant options aren't switched on, nothing I can do about it.

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I'm just not excited by Windows 8. Windows 7 excited me as Vista had a bad reputation and XP was seriously showing its age. But as Windows 7 is still great and fairly new, I just don't see a reason to be that bothered.

I'm interested to see how the interface works. I currently have 5 overlapping windows on my screen, it took me a while to get them set up. The "full screen mode" that both Windows and OS X are taking just wouldn't work for me - I tried it in OS X, but it looks silly on a 24" display.


Full screen apps work really well on portables, and when you look at the market many people are buying portable over desktops. Haven't Apple shown that they mainly sell MacBook*s?

Having overlapping screens is a luxury of having high screen resolutions and having the space to fit everything together nicely. One thing that frustrates me with overlapping windows in Windows is that to scroll a scrollable pane on a background but visible app you've got to click it (the pane, and thus the app) into focus, meaning that a background app jumps to the front just to be scrolled. I don't know if this is still the case?

My lowest resolution screen is my laptop (1920x1080), which is too big to run most apps sensibly in full screen mode.

For a tablet or phone, it works, but for a proper desktop, where I need to do work, it just doesn't work. I generally have 2 - 3 "reference" windows open, plus my "work" window, where I turn the reference material into a finished document. If it is full screen, I'd be switching back and forth between apps every couple of seconds! Way to kill productivity.

For browing a forum or social network or somebody who works in one or 2 LoB apps all day long, Metro might work, but for developers and information workers, it seems to be a non-starter.

Still waiting for the download, my laptop went to sleep and broke the connection...

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Oddly, I don't tend to use full screen that way. If you think about it, the Lion 'full screen' button is also a 'put this on a new virtual desktop' button, so that's what I tend to use it for. If, for example, I've got iTunes playing in the background, I put it in full screen then go back to what I'm doing and it's out of the way on a separate 'screen'.

You can of course do that by pulling up mission control, creating a new desktop and dragging the iTunes window to that desktop but sending it full screen then swiping back to your main desktop is actually quite a lot quicker.

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jonbwfc wrote:
Oddly, I don't tend to use full screen that way. If you think about it, the Lion 'full screen' button is also a 'put this on a new virtual desktop' button, so that's what I tend to use it for. If, for example, I've got iTunes playing in the background, I put it in full screen then go back to what I'm doing and it's out of the way on a separate 'screen'.

You can of course do that by pulling up mission control, creating a new desktop and dragging the iTunes window to that desktop but sending it full screen then swiping back to your main desktop is actually quite a lot quicker.

Jon


+1. My Mail is full screen on it's own workspace, while everything else is a jumble of overlapping windows on my main desktop.


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