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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Alternative Operating Systems => Topic started by: SysAdmin on March 11, 2012, 05:47:59 PM
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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/internet-explorer
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More of a product demo. Kudos to Microsoft for their willingness to reinvent Windows if not themselves. That said, Metro is not mouse-friendly. Apple is doing a better job at gradual convergence.
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rs;ds
(Requires Silverlight; Didn't See)
Meh, no plug-ins for me.
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rs;ds
(Requires Silverlight; Didn't See)
Meh, no plug-ins for me.
Don't worry, you didn't miss much, here you go.
http://www.youtube.com/user/internetexplorer?v=7u2KN_Q0sy8
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Don't worry, you didn't miss much, here you go.
http://www.youtube.com/user/internetexplorer?v=7u2KN_Q0sy8
Wait, seriously? Talk about no meaningful information whatsoever...
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@commodorejohn
It has an ugly website to go with the video.
http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/
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Luckily, my using a browser that follows the outdated principle of "content goes in the page, not in a mess of Javascript" prevents me from having to be bothered by it...all I see is a bar of links and a giant gray space.
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No it isn't. This is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9_ePZWxWGw
:laughing:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk
Just in case you've managed to avoid seeing it...
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Microsoft has a long, long tradition of bizarre promotional videos.
This one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyas7BrbUFY) is one of my favorites - a modification of the Windows 7 launch party video.
Take a look around for Songsmith and Vista SP1 videos... and make sure your anti-nausea pills are close at hand.
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The problem with Steve Ballmer ads, though, is they're the so-bad-it's-good kind of awful. I mean, that doesn't even come close to the terrifying-Pod-People Windows 7 launch party (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ) ad.
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Luckily, my using a browser that follows the outdated principle of "content goes in the page, not in a mess of Javascript" prevents me from having to be bothered by it...all I see is a bar of links and a giant gray space.
I have enough blocking add-ons installed that most websites look completely foreign to me when I view them on someone else's computer or on my TouchPad. What really agitates me, though, is when these damn YouTube videos are STILL able to start without me starting them.
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That's why I employ FlashBlock...
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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/internet-explorer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEFoj6sbDjU
worse
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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/internet-explorer
Hang on a sec? Are they suggesting that computing become a productive part of your life?
That you could make shared and interactive decisions in real time based on merging the Browser and OS UX. Well that'll never work!!! Who do they think they are, A google whos ideas become real? How dare they use HTML5 when they have a perfectly good Silverlight product.
Don't they realise that computing should be for computings sake or individual research only and that devices should be snappy and gimmicky with cool games and stuff. Agile UX is so GEN Ys/Now.
Pungent roses me thinks.
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That's why I employ FlashBlock...
FlashBlock is Truth.
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That's why I employ FlashBlock...
I have that, but it doesn't block HTML5 so I got TubeStop. But that doesn't block everything, either. Just absolutely fscking annoying that web designers assume things about their viewers.
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Amazing just how long its taken Microsoft to realise that it will be browsers that dominate the computer industry in the future and not the OS. And seriously they are so out of touch its like watching old people trying to look hip and cool with young kids. Not sure where Microsoft are heading. I struggle with Windows 7 every day and spend most of the time cursing how crap it is. But hey... nothings changes. MS is and always will be crap. Basically cus they are not inovative and creative, they are simply absorbing good ideas without a clue why.... Saying that Google are fast coming up on the 'crapometer' rails and their dominance is now starting to make them make the same mistakes as MS. ... As soon as something becomes intrusive and blatently biased toward the paying subscribers you start to realise that the creators are not really on your side... They treat you as a pawn to be played. And it feels like that of late.... And given they are so mated to YouTube and the like with all the Google account crap its only time again before someone cries 'internet license' and one of these nobs will be so powerful they will control the way we use the internet. Hope I'm long gone by then.
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Don't pay attention to Transition. He doesn't know how to use modern computers. He's stuck in the 80's!
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@scuzzb494
Active Desktop was introduced in 1997. It wasn't terribly popular at the time, and as you know, Microsoft was forced to separate Internet Explorer from the shell after the antitrust lawsuit. The antitrust restrictions were lifted last year. I'd say Microsoft was well ahead of the curve on this one; however, it's difficult to introduce disruptive change when you're enjoined from it.
EDIT: And why so struggly with Windows 7? Under the hood, it's still just Windows NT. I quite like the Windows 7 shell.