1993 vs 2013

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The PDA in the first picture is just as capable of replacing the laptop as the phone in the second picture.

lol Uhh no, did you ever use a PDA from 1993? If your statement was true, then by now Laptops would be non-existent.

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1993 looks more interesting simply because it was during a time where there were all these technological advancements aimed at the consumers where one could really wonder about endless possibilities. it's a lifestyle now

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1993 was 20 years ago.. wouldn't surprise me if some of the posters in this thread weren't even born yet. Gawd now I feel ancient. The Polaroids were kinda fun, still got a working One Step somewhere.. now if only I had a time traveling DeLorean so I could get film for it.

Scary to think 93 was my first year of college, and I did not even own a personal computer yet at home besides a much older Commodore 64. I did not have an email address until a few years out of college actually. I am sure they existed prior to that, but for a middle class family from NJ, a PC at that time was a luxury item, not (almost) a necessity as they are now.

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Also whose image is this? Okay to post it on social networks and get it out there?

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Also whose image is this? Okay to post it on social networks and get it out there?

I found it on reddit - should be ok to post on social networks.

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Bootnote: no, I'm not, in fact, serious about this.

Funny how some people think desktops like that is as effective and easy to use as a launcher as the start screen.

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Funny how some people think desktops like that is as effective and easy to use as a launcher as the start screen.

My neighbor's Win 7 desktop is like this.. the OCD half of me wants to beat him over the head with his monitor. His reasoning.. takes him too long to type 2 or 3 characters in the search box. (Versus the 20 minutes looking through that mess.)

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I think the Microsoft design team learned design from 1990s textbooks when they designed the startscreen :woot:. Microsoft should have at least added a start screen photo background option and a scaling option too! The start screen looks like its straight out of the late 90s!

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Funny how some people think desktops like that is as effective and easy to use as a launcher as the start screen.

Yes, it is funny how not everyone uses a computer the same way you do.

The All Apps view is akin to how some people have their Desktops setup, but lacks basic functions such as folders, multiple selections and a context menu that doesn't require moving my eyes and the mouse cursor away for the thing I'm working with.

If I want to pin 10 things from this view (or the Search Results view) to the Start Screen it's a huge pain, as is getting into this view in the first place.

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Did I already tell you I'm not serious about that? Good. For the moment there I thought I didn't. Right. Off I go then...

no one took you seriously. just commented on the people that actually use desktops like that :)

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