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Microsoft is notorious for making the worst possible ui decisions and has a bad case of "if it aint broke, we are going to make drat sure to break it in the next major version" when it comes to interface design. Their latest bright idea was to remove the start menu from 8. Literally the centerpiece of the Windows OS since 95 and one of their best most intuitive ui fratures ever. Adored by all users. So let's take it out!!!!  but keep ribbon! That poo poo is goldAt least start is back in 10 but not without leaving tons of overly bloated with dumb poo poo tacked on to the right expanse.
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May 4, 2016 16:14
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Hang on i did the rest of the ribbon
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May 4, 2016 16:16
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Mobile is big now? HOLY poo poo I KNOW, LET'S MAKE WINDOWS WORK LIKE A TABLET OS, BET APPLE NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT
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May 4, 2016 16:17
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May 4, 2016 16:19
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DrBouvenstein posted:God, I hate regular Server 2012. 2012 R2 is fine, it's basically the server version of upgrading to 8.1. You can boot/log in straight to the Desktop, and you get the Start Menu back. The 2012 R2 (and 8.1) start menu is actually really useful, right-clicking gives you a ton of easy options like restart/shutdown/logout, Control Panel, Task Manager, Command Prompt, etc... We have to keep servers at all versions to ensure our software works in all server versions (at least one of each supported ver) so upgrading is not an option.
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May 4, 2016 16:21
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8 track betamax posted:So who is putting youtube videos into their word documents??????? Probably the people that still use Word to make HTML pages.
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May 4, 2016 16:47
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I wish old people adding images to word documents in order to send said image to another person was a relic.
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May 4, 2016 17:22
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Bonzo posted:Probably the people that still use Word to make HTML pages. I had no idea this was a thing, I always assumed Frontpage was the weapon of choice for people who have no business making web pages but do it anyway. I hate seeing people write academic works in Word or Google Docs instead of glorious LaTeX, despite how much of a relic LaTeX actually is. But I've suffered through it and I want others to suffer with me god dammit 
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May 4, 2016 17:44
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Just tell us angrily how it's pronounced, that should scratch the itch for all of us
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May 4, 2016 17:54
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Cojawfee posted:I wish old people adding images to word documents in order to send said image to another person was a relic. pfft get with the times grandpa the cool old people all put images in powerpoint presentations where you can have a midi playing the whole time and 10 second long dissolve transitions between the funny pictures like the one I got from my aunt that had pictures of madeline mcann, including closeups of her freaky eye, and sad music to tug on my heartstrings and make me want to donate money to her neglectful millionaire parents lol
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May 4, 2016 18:32
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Data Graham posted:Mobile is big now? HOLY poo poo I KNOW, LET'S MAKE WINDOWS WORK LIKE A TABLET OS, BET APPLE NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT Also, let's make our server OS work like a tablet, because reasons! Sten Freak posted:Also, and this is another work thing, if you are remoted into one of these servers and need the start button that's not a start button you have to hover into the last 3 or so pixels into the bottom left hand corner to get the blue-box start thingy. And if you barely miss too far to the left and that server window was on your right monitor well poo poo now you just clicked into your center's monitor's (primary desktop) bottom right hand corner which is the show desktop for all monitors button so everything gets minimized. Convoluted I know but someone out there has probably also done this 50 times because we cannot have a start button in server 2012. This is absolutely terrible and made me glad we were able to upgrade to R2, because ugh. "How do you get to the start button on the new 2012 servers?" "Hover your cursor in the all the way bottom left until a thing pops up" "It's not working" "Keep trying, jiggle the mouse around until it does" "Can you please reinstall 2008 R2?"
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May 4, 2016 18:33
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I remember when Windows 8 came out, the Network Admin at my company went around with a laptop betting people they couldn't figure out how to get to open a document in Microsoft Word in under a minute. He got me!
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May 4, 2016 18:55
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Efexeye posted:I remember when Windows 8 came out, the Network Admin at my company went around with a laptop betting people they couldn't figure out how to get to open a document in Microsoft Word in under a minute. He got me! Fun fact: The keyboard shortcuts for Windows and Office haven't changed since 95. Ctrl+O could have made you the office computer stud
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May 4, 2016 19:04
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i just pressed ctrl-o and nothing happened
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May 4, 2016 19:34
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kilogram posted:I had no idea this was a thing, I always assumed Frontpage was the weapon of choice for people who have no business making web pages but do it anyway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5ZG7-BlG6Q I'm pretty sure that Project allows you to create "web pages" too.
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May 4, 2016 22:44
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Efexeye posted:i just pressed ctrl-o and nothing happened You have to press ctrl+O inside office to open a document.
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May 4, 2016 23:04
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Oh, uh, well this guy would just hand you a laptop with the start menu showing and be like 'go ahead, open up a Word doc'...no one knew to just type the name of the program
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May 4, 2016 23:10
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Yeah I mean who would ever think of using the start menu in 8 like they did in Vista and 7, these computer nerds with their "typing" am I right
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May 4, 2016 23:30
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When I was in elementary school and high school, the schools used this Windows 95 shell replacement called IBM SchoolVista. The login screen looked like the outside of a school, and the "desktop" looked like a classroom. The programs list was a bookshelf. It was designed to ensure that students could only use pre-approved programs. There were also some other features that teachers never used. This was in the middle of the "computer interfaces that look like real life" kick that was mercifully short-lived when people realized it was rear end. After a little bit of tinkering we found out that you could just run any program you wanted with any Open dialogue by entering *.exe to change the extension it was browsing for to executables, and then you could browse anywhere and right click->run or whatever. Aside from being able to play games (we played some IPX LAN games of Doom for instance) it was nice being able to use a different web browser. SchoolVista was deployed with Netscape 4 which was crappy and outdated at the time and if you went anywhere cool you'd get a ton of Javascript errors. This was the one time in history where Internet Explorer was way better than any of its competition
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May 4, 2016 23:34
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Bonzo posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5ZG7-BlG6Q *breathes heavily, smacks lips, and swallows own(?) saliva loudly for two straight minutes* okay so heres what you do next...
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May 4, 2016 23:39
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WebDog posted:512kb of only the finest rough stuff! You were ripped off. The only tool you needed to accomplish that was: 
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May 5, 2016 00:57
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What on earth is that? One-hole punch for nonstandard binders? Leather punch without adjustable hole size?
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May 5, 2016 01:12
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Computer viking posted:What on earth is that? One-hole punch for nonstandard binders? yes and I've mostly heard them called "single-hole punch" to differentiate them from the three-hole punch
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May 5, 2016 01:13
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"Print screen key"? Where do I find that on my Microsoft Surface tablet?  No please don't put me on probation, I don't really own one!  Of course I don't know how you actually write a document using your tablet, would you seriously use an on-screen keyboard for that?
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May 5, 2016 01:14
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BattleMaster posted:yes and I've mostly heard them called "single-hole punch" to differentiate them from the three-hole punch Three hole punch? I hadn't even considered that this was one of the fields with many competing standards. Oh well, the two-ring iso standard isn't the greatest. Buttcoin purse: Type cover. It's not great, but it's a proper keyboard with key switches and separate hard plastic keys, large enough to feel like the bad end of ultrabook keyboards instead of the good end of phone toys. If you were stupid enough to not buy one, then yeah onscreen keyboard. The MS one is a reasonable implementation, but that's not saying much. Computer viking has a new favorite as of 01:28 on May 5, 2016 |
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May 5, 2016 01:22
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all Microsoft products are wonderful and full of happiness edit: IE even capitalizes the M in Microsoft
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May 5, 2016 01:33
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CaptainSarcastic posted:You were ripped off. The only tool you needed to accomplish that was: I never saw anyone use anything except scissors back in the day.
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May 5, 2016 01:38
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E Equals MC Hammer posted:all Microsoft products are wonderful and full of happiness
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May 5, 2016 02:13
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iOS autocorrects/capitalizes all kinds of proper nouns, not just Apple-related stuff. It loving capitalizes "Oompa Loompa". Seriously, try it.
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May 5, 2016 02:30
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Steve Jorbs posted:Much like Apple will autocorrect for iPhone, iOS, etc. Aren't you supposed to be dead. These punchers depending on how they're built also have the disadvantage of possibly becoming dull and then "squeezing" the corner out of the disk instead of making a clean cut. Just read that that the ILOVEYOU worm turned 16 today. It's funny how these things mutated from the occasional joke virus with sometimes destructive properties for the hell of it to this high-speed blur of highly sophisticated software exploits and ransomware backed by some random mobsters. We're also gonna see a lot more of that because devices getting too "smart" for their own good (IMO). It's amazingly unfun.
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May 5, 2016 02:38
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Bonzo posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5ZG7-BlG6Q I'm not proud of this, but I've made them in Publisher as well.
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May 5, 2016 04:20
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JnnyThndrs posted:I'm not proud of this, but I've made them in Publisher as well.
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May 5, 2016 09:00
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Thread Title References Zelda. This seems like the sort of thing one might have found on the old file sharing networks. So I'm just going to leave this here Zelda Meets Metal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgefAXTLEwU e: Also Doom E1M1 Meets Metal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e87YFaWdiaE Vanagoon has a new favorite as of 10:27 on May 5, 2016 |
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May 5, 2016 10:23
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Jerry Cotton posted:I never saw anyone use anything except scissors back in the day. A friend of mind held a normal hole-punch closed, lined the hole of the floppy up on it and marked on the base of the punch where to hold the disk. Then you just flip it over and punch a perfectly-aligned hole every time with no special tools.
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May 5, 2016 10:24
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Gromit posted:A friend of mind held a normal hole-punch closed, lined the hole of the floppy up on it and marked on the base of the punch where to hold the disk. Then you just flip it over and punch a perfectly-aligned hole every time with no special tools. I didn't have autistic friends. One guy was supposedly lactose intolerant.
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May 5, 2016 14:01
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Is it non-sequitur week and no-one told me?
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May 5, 2016 14:52
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WebDog posted:They did, discs came as double and single sided but double was apparently twice the price, despite the internals being exactly the same. That was literally the first I had ever heard of that, but he is also one of the only people I could believe would know something so obscure rather than just be making it up, so it is hard to say. Jason, if you are reading this, and you probably are, know that I am no longer mad at you about refusing to change the one letter in that one text file on behalf of my friend. thathonkey posted:At least start is back in 10 but not without leaving tons of overly bloated with dumb poo poo tacked on to the right expanse. I think you can disable any bloated expanses that you are discussing? Well, O.K., though you probably cannot just fundamentally destroy it. And now that you mention it, I roll my eyes hard every time I think about the XBox integration that you cannot seem to fully destroy even if you run the command that fully destroys it. Vanagoon posted:Doom E1M1 Meets Metal  except...why would someone go to this trouble if they knew that?Haha...apparently the only difficulty is figuring out which of three different 1980s metal tracks was blatantly lifted for that song: http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Doom_music
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Dr. Quarex posted:I think you can disable any bloated expanses that you are discussing? I disabled every privacy-invasive thing in Windows 10 and added Classic Shell and I've had zero problems with Windows 10. I guess people would argue that you shouldn't "have to" do anything to make an OS tolerable to use, but it's literally seconds of your time. Like, I don't even think about the fact that I'm using Windows 10 until somebody mentions Windows 10.
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King Vidiot posted:I disabled every privacy-invasive thing in Windows 10 Sure you did.
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