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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
And this high horse "What you're doing is wrong, so we're going to force you to do things the way we think they should be done" thinking is why Microsoft has failed so hard with Windows 8. People don't like being told that they have to do things a certain way, they like having options. RDCman is fine for doing things like patching, but when there's only a select handful of servers that I need to access regularly I'd rather use straight RDC.
You definitely caught on to drinking the company koolaid fast though, that's for sure
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Hey, I'm just trying to help you do your job more efficiently. I used to make RDP shortcuts all the time too and for the same reasons as you. It was a waste of time when I did it then, and given how far RDP session managers have come since, it's definitely a waste of time now.
And there's no Kool-Aid here. I'd have told you this a year ago or an hour ago. My opinions are my own, and I'm not on the Windows team.
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Originally Posted by sworkhard
A much, much bigger annoyance in windows 8's default config is how pdfs, images, etc all display in metro apps by default. If windows 8.1 allows me to specify separate apps to display these in in metro and desktop mode, it will resolve my biggest complaint with windows 8.
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Windows 8 already gives you this option. Right click the file, Open with > Choose Default Program... - unless you mean opening images from App Store apps in a Windows 8 app, and opening an image from the desktop mode in a desktop app. That'd be kind of nice, but one of the things it looks like the Windows team wanted to do was unify the experience between desktop and the Modern UI. 8.1's Control Panel is now supposed to be able to access many of the same settings and properties as the desktop's Control Panel. Not sure if that would be going against that goal.
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Originally Posted by jammies
Who cares, it's terrible UI design. You don't need the whole screen as a launchpad, so why use it? It's not a phone, there's plenty of screen room to have my apps AND my launcher both visible at the same time.
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... and you can't interact with the real estate behind your launcher while keeping the launcher open, because it'll close automatically, so why not use it? Why bother leaving all that space open?
What I do think would be cool though, if I can stop playing devil's advocate for a second, is similar to what Hemi-Cuda said about Office 2013. A touch-oriented, live-tile re-envisioning of the Windows 7 Start Menu for change-averse users.
Related: The changes in Windows 8.1:
http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/b...ndows-8-1.aspx