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The reports of still insisting on Metro for big monitors and computers instead of keeping it only on phones and tablets confirm this. Ugly, ugly, ugly.
(And forcing people to get an OS update over the Windows Store is as spammy as it can be.)
will be a free update to Windows 8 for consumers through the Windows Store This could be to get more people to link their Microsoft ID with their Windows user accounts so that they will be more likely to use the store in the future. The alternative would be to release it through Windows Update like every other Windows patch for the last decade+.
i think it will be interesting to see how this works. I'm not 100 percent sure, but i think the store basically cannot update apps and functions outside its modern UI jail, right?
Some updates on the way: 1. Start menu 2. Tile size (source: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/380713/windows-blue-8-1-release-... )
Ugh. I don't actually miss the onscreen start button (although I can imagine the discoverability hit to casual computer users). I miss the actual start menu , which was vastly more useful than the gimmicky thing they replaced it with.
Sounds like a service pack just got rebranded as a point update.
Service packs typically don't contain new features, though, while this update is expected to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP#Service_packs
> Microsoft occasionally releases service packs for its Windows operating systems to fix problems and add features.
I found this announcement frustrating to read because it contains little useful content. Almost all of it is about how supposedly awesome Windows 8 is and how well it's doing. The relevant part could have been summed up as: there's a free upgrade coming out sometime later this year called Windows 8.1.
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A start menu.
Press "Windows" key. Get full screen start menu with improved search function.
And it will help the usability for my parents too on their Windows computers. My mother has become confused with her Windows 8 laptop (that has a touch screen) about how to switch between modes.
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If that's the reason (though I have my doubts), in that case it may have been a very poorly chosen name.
Microsoft has a long history of very poorly chosen names. There are at least 3 other Microsoft Stores -- their chain of retail stores (ala Apple Store), the online version of those stores, their multiple "Microsoft Stores" on the corporate campus that sell Microsoft hardware/software/books/swag to both visitors and employees predating the retail locations, and their employee-only online store.
Finding errors for one was incredibly difficult because the other one kept popping up.
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Apple desktop and laptop sales also decreased. Are we going to use post hoc ergo propter hoc to prove Windows 8 so good that it caused Apple's sales to tumble as well?
"The problem with Microsoft is that they have no taste." (S. Jobs) The reports of still insisting on Metro for big monitors and computers instead of keeping it only on phones and tablets confirm this. Ugly, ugly, ugly. (And forcing people to get an OS update over the Windows Store is as spammy as it can be.)