Has Microsoft stumbled?

[Tommy Vercetti]

Just hitting the power button can damage your computer. That is very basic computer knowledge. It is NEVER a good idea to do that unless you have no choice. Also Windows 8 haters don't want MS to try to change the way people use there computers. All of US think it is bad and well it is bad. Some people are just blind to that.

 

[Mise]

Just hitting the power button can damage your computer. That is very basic computer knowledge.

 

[Tommy Vercetti]

You should run the proper shutdown, not just hit the power button.

 

[Mise]

When you press the power button, windows runs the proper shutdown procedure by default. You can change this behaviour in the control panel.

 

[Zelig]

Presumably Tommy is still running Windows 3.1 because he doesn't like this kind of change, which is why he's unaware of these features of modern operating systems.

 

[Mise]

I never bothered shutting down (or exiting to DOS) when I had 3.1 and I turned out just fine.

 

[Tommy Vercetti]

Presumably Tommy is still running Windows 3.1 because he doesn't like this kind of change, which is why he's unaware of these features of modern operating systems.

I run Windows 7 and I intended to do so for as long as I can.

 

[Mise]

I assume you mistook your power button for the self destruct button, in which case I can see why pressing it might cause damage to your computer.

 

[Zelig]

I run Windows 7 and I intended to do so for as long as I can.

So until you die? Nothing's stopping you from still running Windows 3.1.

 

[Commodore]

Just hitting the power button can damage your computer. That is very basic computer knowledge. It is NEVER a good idea to do that unless you have no choice. Also Windows 8 haters don't want MS to try to change the way people use there computers. All of US think it is bad and well it is bad. Some people are just blind to that.

That is flat out wrong. Hitting the power button causes absolutely no damage to computers at all. That is a myth and I laugh every time I hear someone say that.

Also, whether or not the changes are good or bad is a subjective opinion, and not based on any kind of objective fact. Thus, if you don't like Windows 8 it would be more intellectually honest to state you just don't like the OS rather than saying it is a bad product.

 

[bhsup]

Okay, I admit I was going to post something about the power button being a horrible way to shut down as well because I thought you meant press and hold until the system just quit, bypassing the OS shutdown process. Glad I misunderstood what you meant.

 

[Zelig]

Penny Arcade on 8.1

Tee hee.

 

[Iranon]

Microsofts UI designers have nothing on Jony Ive.

 

[Zelig]

Well that's kind of hard to judge and compare, since Ive does primarily hardware design. iOS 7 is the first software product he's led the design for.

 

[Iranon]

...and already managed a far more epic troll than Penny Arcade attributed to MS designers.

 

[Zelig]

Which is?

 

[Mise]

http://jonyiveredesignsthings.tumblr.com/archive

 

[Iranon]

Turned Apple's signature aesthetic on its head, borrowed heavily from competitors while the original touches are to a large degree challenging accepted good practice in interface design.

Trolling everyone:
- users content with what they have (not an evolution, not even a revolution... petty much a reversal).
- the late Steve Jobs (outspoken lover of Skeuomorphy... I agree it was questionable but ouch.)
- Apple itself (trying hard to come across as innovative and very combative if someone supposedly steals their ideas)
- UI designers (display face as a system font, flourishes that are flourishes and can't be interpreted as usability cues...)

Too much to be innocently daring.

 

[Zelig]

I dunno, I don't care about what users are content with, or what you refer to as usability cues... I don't think iOS7 looks very good as is, but I think it could be polished up to something very nice by release.

 

[BirraImperial]

Well, last week, I turned off my work laptop by holding the power button down, since it was stuck in the "shutting down" screen. The following day, it wouldn't boot into Windows, it kept going to the repair screen. Turns out the boot sector was corrupted, so I had to re-image my laptop with Win 7 again. So holding down the power button to turn your PC off faster is not a good idea.