Microsoft drops 'Metro' name for Windows 8

Can't you read? Does your urge to denigrate cause blindness? I didn't say the term hasn't been used. Besides, almost all references are to "Metro-style". It's never been anything official. It wasn't even a codename - more like a design concept/style reference that took on a life of its own, without ever being or becoming official. This happens in many places, and is a non-story.

Not a single bit in Win8 has to get flipped.

I cannot believe you are so obtuse. Do you think using the term Metro is a crime? Huh? Why should Sinofsky or anyone else be fired for using Metro? Ballmer used it many times in keynotes. It's in tons of docs during the pre-release phase, just like non-final screenshots and beta code.
 
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Arthur said:
Can't you read? Does your urge to denigrate cause blindness? I didn't say the term hasn't been used. Besides, almost all references are to "Metro-style". It's never been anything official. It wasn't even a codename - more like a design concept/style reference that took on a life of its own, without ever being or becoming official. This happens in many places, and is a non-story.

Not a single bit in Win8 has to get flipped.

I cannot believe you are so obtuse. Do you think using the term Metro is a crime? Huh? Why should Sinofsky or anyone else be fired for using Metro? Ballmer used it many times in keynotes. It's in tons of docs during the pre-release phase, just like non-final screenshots and beta code.
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Oh I see - it is not "official". Even though it is spread all over MS websites en watookal as if diarrhoea had been pumped at pressure through a high-speed fan. ROFL.

Or, the "references" are all "Metro-style". Which means in the common tongue - in the style of "Metro", which, though a proper name, and capitalised nogal, refers to something that does not exist then? I mean, it just couldn't refer to that fugly blocky thingy MS have bodged onto the front of Windows, could it? Lollers.

Oh, and Sinofsky is not going to be fired for using the term - he will be one of the fall-guys when Win8 makes like the airship Hindenburg on the last flight hehe!
 
Garyvdh said:
I guess time will tell. My prediction is that it will be as short lived as Vista.
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Vista was not short lived, it is the reason we have windows 7. Windows 7 is a by product of vista, all that changed was they made windows 7 run better on slower pc's but the actual OS is practically identical. There were little to no driver issues with windows 7 because vista had laid the platform.

Vista was mind blowing compared to xp.
 
I know of lots of people who wouldn't mind "blowing some brains out" at Micro$oft for Vista. So yeah, mind blowing is right :)

Also, if you guys can't handle change, don't buy Windows 8. Personally, Metro has grown on me. Or should I say the Windows 8 UI.
 
StevenC said:
I know of lots of people who wouldn't mind "blowing some brains out" at Micro$oft for Vista. So yeah, mind blowing is right :)

Also, if you guys can't handle change, don't buy Windows 8. Personally, Metro has grown on me. Or should I say the Windows 8 UI.
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We can handle change, when the change is good, not bad.

See you when Windows 9 gets released, with a start button built in.
 
killadoob said:
Vista was not short lived, it is the reason we have windows 7. Windows 7 is a by product of vista, all that changed was they made windows 7 run better on slower pc's but the actual OS is practically identical. There were little to no driver issues with windows 7 because vista had laid the platform.

Vista was mind blowing compared to xp.
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XP was around for nearly a decade when Vista Showed up.
But after the mess that Vista was, Microsoft fast Tracked Win7 to be released within two years.
Today Vista has less than 5% installed base of all Windows Computers.
Best deal in facts.
I agree that Win7 was what Vista should have been, but Vista should never have been released it was nowhere near ready for release.
It took two service packs to make it usable.
 
Hi Sorry if I'm in the wrong place but you guys seem smart here.

I have a question about VLC.

When I DL stuff to watch, it plays out of sync and echoing, please help.
 
LogicHead3000 said:
Hi Sorry if I'm in the wrong place but you guys seem smart here.

I have a question about VLC.

When I DL stuff to watch, it plays out of sync and echoing, please help.
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I suggest you create you're own thread in the correct section - you will get better responses...
 
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