frankwick

Actually, Intel sets the standard via its untrabook spec. If they meet the specs, then they cannot call it an ultrabook.

I think it’s tim ethey split ways. The MSNBC TV news and a large business like Microsoft often share different views.

• MSNBC TV NEws: Tax big business and their rich execs so we can use that money for social programs. More taxes mor taxes more taxes!!

• Microsoft: Cut all taxes including corporate taxes and we will have more money to invest in projects and employ more people. Less taxes less taxes less taxes!!

Ballmer should try to use that thing with mouse and a leyboard (no touching allowed). He would rip it off the wall!!

except that 75% of my 7,000 users have dual monitors and another percentage has 3 and 4 screens.

Everyone (and I mean EVERY ONE) knew that HTML5 would evenutall supplant Flash. What Jobs did was jump the gun before HTML5 was ready. If I had to guess, there were technical reasons why iOS couldn’t support Flash (battery life? lack of extensibility in safari? security?) and in typical Steve Jobs fashion, claimed that not having Flash in iOS was a feature when in turn it wouldn’t work well.

you obviously have no clue. The tiles don’t constantly change in a dramtic fashion. The best tiles are subtle and have one task, for example, the mail tile will simply show you the subject of your newest message. Sounds pretty freakin’ cool to me. The weather tile will show you the current temp. The USAToday tile will show the latest headlines. AND, you can turn any of these live tiles off if they become annoying. Too bad I cannot do the same for some users on this forum.

only if all the your apps are in the startup group like the bloatware from dell.

The OS usually isn’t the culprit. This is usually caused by the bloatware or craplications that OEMs cram onto your system. First thing I do when I get a new computer is load a virgin OS and apply only what I need from there.

I manage 7,000 corporate desktops and I switched from Dell to HP last year. HUGE decision, but worth it. I’ve had better service from the sales guy and on warranty work. NIGHT and DAY.

The laptop also has a built in docking port on the bottom which adds thickness. The port works with the standard HP dock. That laptop also has a full size ethernet port in the side. I believe the ethernet port is thicker itself than the Intel ultrabook standard. So, any laptop with this port cannot be an ultrabook.

Think of Metro tiles as LARGE icons with the possibility of dynamic information instead of a static text label. What’s so hard to understand?

that’s better but still not as configurable as it should be. If I want to make my Wion8 screen hideous was fuscia and yellow then let me!

I like the search button in the task bar. Nice feature!

part of WinMo’s problem was there were multiple app stores before Microsoft even opened theirs. I remember buying apps on Handango in 2002-03!! Whowouldathunk that a closed system app store would be the preferred model over openness?

did they fix the touchpad? I have two of the original UX31 Zenbook sand the touchpad is well… CRAPPY!!!!

Wow, both of the screenshots are horrid. The first KDE shot above looks like Max OS System 7 and the decond looks like Win95.

The LeapPad looks like Windows 3.1 or the iphone.

I wish we had more color options.

The courier team left Microsoft when the dual screen concept was never put into production. Those guys have created an ipad app called Paper. My guess is you’ll eventually see a Paper app on Win8.

my point is that it is overly complex. They removed the start button that has a tacit feel, to an invisible hover area. No one in their right mind could say this is an improvement.

I would… Needing a tutorial is asenine. We should be able to NAVIGATE Microsoft Windows without being taught. The start button/menu is so intuitive that a tutorial isn’t needed. In fact, Win8 is almost jarring in the fact that when you’re int he desktop and you find the magical method to open the start menu it takes you a complete other interface. It’s like chaging the channel on the TV while someone else is engrossed in a movie.

Sleekbook is pure marketing. It basically says these are like ultrabooks but don’t meet the Intel specs. As an HP corporate customer I understand. I need an HP with their standard bottom docking port and ethernet port. It is physically IMPOSSIBLE to add these things and meet the ultrabook spec as defined by Intel. Thus, the term Sleekbook was born to say “we got as close as we could.” I am ok with this term.

agree 100%. I love MEtro on touch screen, but these stupid hot corners are, well… STUPID! They’re invisible. They magically catch your mouse. They’re tiny at 6×6 pixels. STUPID STUPID STUPID and harder to user and now takes longer to execute because of the more steps involved. INSANITY!!

The problem is death from 1,000 small cuts:
Cut 1. You cannot boot to the desktop. This is hORRIBLE for mouse/keyboard users
Cut 2. Once you get to the desktop, there is no start button.
Cut 3. Once you get used to mousing to the right, hovering, then clicing the start charm, tou get taken back to MEtro and not a start menu. Notice how it takes multiple steps to get to the start menu now? That is a regressive feature.

agree/disagree:
- Agree that Metro is so fun on a touch screen and incredibly easy to use. It will be the most intuitive mobile os available.
.- Disagree that it is user-friendly on a mouse keyboard. Win7 set that bar too high that not even MS can reach it again with win8. Targeting an invisible 6×6 pixel space is not as ‘user friendly’ as clicking on the ubiquitous start button.